hi.

 Winter days are for . . .

And also - 

Trail Mix Cookies

    Today is all about procrastination. It is cold. The hot water pipes in my house, in their typical spirit of perverse defiance and tenacity in the face of opposition, have frozen despite being left trickling overnight. I was looking forward to a visit from some family members which was cancelled due to illness (one of the less-known hazards of going to church: tell your friends). I had taken the day off in anticipation of spending it with my visitors. Logically, I should use the day to catch up on school work.

    That’s silly talk.    

                      

Friday things: la familia, etc

We've been jetsetting lately. I'm actually in Boston right now.

But here are some snapshots of other goings-ons.

 Jack and I both had birthdays. He gave me a haircut and massage appointment for mine. This is my before hair picture. There is no after.

 I went to see my family: this is Max. Max is mad.

old apartment memories + moving + life + other stuff happens

We are in the middle of moving and finishing classes and summer jobs and other fun grownup-but-not-completely-grownup stuff.

Life is pretty crazy right now.

So I've had less time for cooking, writing and blogging and related things, but I hope to pick up the pace when we get settled into our new place.

We've been living in an area of Wilmington that makes people raise their eyebrows and gasp when we tell them where it is.

One of my coworkers' reaction when I revealed the location - immediately after he had been talking about growing up in the ghetto - was to raise his eyebrows and tell me,

    "Okay, sweetie, I'm going to need you to do my a favor: don't get shot, okay?"

So far, so good.

My original plan for Fridays, if I ever really had any, were to have a sort of random collection from the week.

That might still happen. But not today. Today is all about reptiles. Because that's just what I want.

Cuddly reptiles. (That's right: these two are clearly cuddling).

Hiding reptiles.

Sleepy reptiles.

Reptilian bathing beauties.

Look! More cuddling! Aren't cold-blooded squamata the sweetest?

All right, enough scales. Other than creeping on snakes, this is the other thing that has been going on in life recently: moving.

That, and listening to and watching this music video. Literally over and over again. I'm obsessed with the video, which is something like a whimsical, twisted -up salad of Wes Anderson, David Lynch, and tropey 60s horror films.  I sing it loudly every morning at work, which admittedly probably ruins a lot of people's mornings.

Speaking of repeatedly watching music videos: Sia's "Chandelier". The dancing is just splendid, it's been truly enjoyable with each viewing. Yes, I have probably watched it close to a dozen times. Don't judge.

friday things

My chair post was supposed to be out yesterday, (you know - the whole thirsty Thursday thing and all), but due to some technical snafu, was not.

Nevertheless, here is another random Friday post. Some snapshots from last week:

Roadtripping. 

Friday things

Time for the collective workingman sigh. It's Friday.

I am amazingly lucky this summer to have reduced hours at work. At least, I choose to look at it as luck. Now I can do class + house work on Fridays. Theoretically. Today, so far I have made good on a little cleaning, and re-potted a plant. Hooray for me.

Now if I could just finish my class assignments and find a new place for us to live for the next year. That would be great.

But who wants to think about commonplace things like that on a Friday, and a memorial day weekend Friday at that? Not I, good sir. It's been a moderately stressful week (aren't they all though), so I thought some happy thoughts were in order. This is what I'm dwelling on today:

Sunny-day, lounging-on-the-porch memories.