Saturday, December 05, 2009
Aaahhhh! Dean is bragfully singing, "I'm off to an early start, I'm off to an early start!" and "It's all for me, it's all for me, I got the first card!"
Posted at 3:46:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
He got a card from Atlantic Aviation at Brainard airport. :-P It's pretty nice actually--they even included a Shrunkin' gift card. I think I'll be pilfering that.
[Edit: Dean says, "Nope--you'll be receiving it as a regifted stocking stuffer."]
Thursday, December 03, 2009
I love love love LOVE wrapping.
Posted at 11:10:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I was feeling really crummy on the way home (super tired and worn down... I didn't get much of a sleep last night) and then "Positively 4th Street" came on the radio. THUMBS UP!!!!! I turned it up ear-bleedingly loud and sang along (really badly). WDRC almost never plays Bob! MEAN Dylan when you're low = best medicine ever!!
Posted at 5:16:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I still feel like a nap, though. Maybe chocolate will help.
[Edit: Ha! I love the quote about "Positively 4th Street" on Wikipedia: "Critic Dave Marsh praised the song as 'an icy hipster bitch session' with 'Dylan cutting loose his barbed-wire tongue at somebody luckless enough to have crossed the path of his desires.'" Then it calls it "uncompromisingly nasty." :-) Barbed-wire tongue = awesome.]
I'm having so much trouble finding a 2010 calendar I like. It's not usually this difficult! I could get the Charley Harper calendar again, but that's kind of repetitive, and Charley Harper is everywhere now! He used to be so obscure. (This always happens to me.) Best calendar I've ever had: Louis Renard's Fish 2004 calendar by The Academy of Natural Sciences. So so so great. (I still have it, of course. But not on the wall.)
Posted at 2:22:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Hmm, maybe I should get this one. Uh, no.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Wowowow! My new Curly Top came, and it's even better than my old legacy Curly Top™! The new one's not actually a Curly Top™, but a Curly Top: the Next Generation, with ionic and ceramic technology. Woo!
Posted at 9:23:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Who would win the competition for best jam/jelly ever: quince, lulo, mayhaw, poha, or lilikoi? At this very moment, I'm leaning towards lilikoi!
Posted at 1:58:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Peeling off tape from nearly 20 year old wrapping paper to reuse it = ♥!
Posted at 12:47:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
I'm in an insanely good mood again today. Mmmmm. Not sure why, exactly, but it might have something to do with all this singing along to Bob's Christmas album. :-)
Posted at 5:44:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Shopping in West Hartford center, in the rain! I haven't been to West Hartford center (Farmington Avenue) in ages. It's not raining very hard, so I just put up the hood on my Oshima beater and went around humming, "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!" It didn't snow, but it was still fun.
Posted at 3:36:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Also, I stumbled across this new "tart frozen yogurt" place, Robeks, and tried a small plain frozen yogurt. I'd read about tart frozen yogurt (it's a big fad on the West Coast, or something), but never seen it before. WOW!! It's really good! I love it! It really is tart, in a fantastically delicious way. The taste is completely different than regular frozen yogurt, and it's not like normal yogurt-yogurt, either. I was totally amazed by how great it was. And it was only 112 calories, or something like that. Too bad it's in West Hartford!!!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The waterbird had to get surgery! Yesterday when we put her on the tree, she kept falling off her clippy feet. But Dean fixed her in the basement somehow, and she's as good as new, and back to being eyed hungrily by the crocodile. Her guardian seahorse is as vigilant as ever, though, so she has nothing to worry about.
Posted at 10:05:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
[Edit: Oh!! I was just looking at the photo essay I wrote in 2000 (before ALB started), the first year I had my own tree. I wrote, of my new-that-year waterbird, "([she] is suicidal... one night shortly after we had put her up, I heard a crash and came downstairs to find her lying on the floor with her feet still clipped to the tree! fortunately, she wasn't broken, and we glued her feet back on.... after that, she had to live on a low branch, though.)" So I guess this was her second surgery, but the first one lasted nine years! And that explains why, unlike the rest of the birds, she always goes near the bottom of the tree, right in croc territory.]
Posted at 2:46:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Dean did take a few photos during our Provincetown Thanksgiving walk with his Palm, since we left the real camera with our luggage in the inn. Even though it's pretty rough, I like this one. That's The Pilgrim Monument in the background. The taxi driver told us that they always decorate the monument for Christmas and that they'd just had the annual lighting ceremony and that we'd be have a good view from our inn. Which we did. But you can't see the lights in the daylight, obviously. I just like the photo because it kind of shows how it was, stark and beautiful.
The two photos above are ones I took in Tango on the way.
