Today is trying to kick my butt at work. I’m fighting back with good food during breaks and as much productivity as possible during non-breaks. When both of those stop being effective, I spend a minute or two looking at cuteness via the conveniently named Cute Overload blog. This might be my favorite picture at…
Highlight Reel
There were way too many fun things about the past week to record them all. Hopefully the same was true about your Christmas. There were, however, a few highlights. Enjoy. On the drive from Norfolk to Blacksburg, houses along the road obligingly turned out an impressive number of Christmas lights. It made driving in the…
Candlelight
It’s time for the best church service of the year! I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas. That’s all.
Wait for it, wait for it.
Well, this is it. The last day of work (for me) before Christmas. My personal to do list is still kind of intense, but I don’t really care. At this point, all of the big stuff is done. Nobody cares if I wear wrinkly clothes over the weekend or if my house isn’t vacuumed before…
Catalogs. Stacks and stacks of Catalogs.
I’m not normally that upset about the quantity of catalogs I receive in the mail. I understand that even though I never look inside half of the catalogs and rarely order from the other half, it’s presumably worth it for companies to send me reminders to buy their stuff. What I don’t understand are the…
Homemade Goodness and Pecan Spinwheels
Yesterday was Christmas baking day, but I didn’t factor in time for the dough to do its thing and for the oven to preheat and bake and bake some more, and for me to then take care of the trillion dishes that baking produced. My kitchen looks like a disaster area or an example of…
Letters to Santa
It’s snowing outside, and I just sent off my annual letter to Santa (via email). It’s pretty exciting, people. Yes, I’m twenty-six years old. This is how it went down in my family. My parents didn’t want to lie to us and tell us that certain things were real when they weren’t, so I was…
Small, but valuable. 