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It’s Friday night, and Sabine and I are not in FarWestTexas. We’re in her cozy living room in DFW instead.
For the record- I’m taking the blame on that call. We did start out this morning for FWT, even though the weather report looked ReallyScary. We got a bit out of town and […]

Sabine says she loves me.
I am going to maintain that this may be a falsehood. Sure, she left the nuts out of her signature cake just for me, but she is the reason- the ONLY reason- that I’m going to WestFreakingTexas this weekend.
The low for Friday night is 18 degrees. Yes, I know, […]

Every time I’ve been the one to pick the quote, I have been under the misunderstanding that I was picking something SUPER easy, and then I sit down to write about it and I figure out that I’ve gone and shot myself in the foot. This is hard- but hard is good. Hard […]

Last night, I encountered a Totally New Experience.
Between Trixie and Sara and Sara and Sabine, I’ve heard for years how awesome yoga is. I’ve tried a couple of DVDs and learned a few stretches here and there, but I’d never really “done” yoga, so I looked up a local class and went and checked […]

What a lovely, lovely weekend!
We had some serious girl-time going on this weekend. Sabine and I actually got to be at an SCA event and enjoy one another’s company! Ya’ll just don’t know how odd that is. Typically, she and I have to spend a good portion of our Sundays on the […]

I’m a Tom Petty fan.
I’m not a fangirl (that’s a level of devotion saved for very few celebrities, like Seth Rogen and Jack Bauer [NOT Kiefer Sutherland, just that particular character] and Keith Olbermann), but I like his music. I probably burned through at least 3 copies of Full Moon Fever before I was […]

Soooo…. some of the Usual Suspects and I have decided to re-start the Quote Challenge, because back in 2006 we had some fun with it, and we’re all suffering from serious lack of inspiration. I’m linking the original post with the original rules, I’ll post a quote that’s hopefully at least a little bit […]

So, I found out tonight that some of my recent fixer-upper work (on me, not on the house) was getting called into play. That’s kind of unfair, isn’t it? You only get a little bit of time to be proud of what a good job you’re doing in your efforts to become a […]

Nothing deep today.  I’m pretty sure I’ve deeped myself out this week.
Have some Hayseed Dixie instead. 

If you’re traveling this weekend, be safe, and if you’re traveling to Winter Wonders- come by the kitchen.  I’ll be watching bread rise (that’s my official job this weekend) and dispensing a LOT of jello shots. James is […]

I came across a quote, quite by accident, today.
The quote I *saw* said: Brokeness is a pathway to a blessing. ~ Charles. F. Stanley.  The actual proper quote spells “brokenness” correctly, so there was a typo in there.  As a result, in the first reading my brain read it to me as “broke-ness” not […]