Trick or Treat!

Posted by on Oct 31, 2010 in dish | 0 comments All Hallow’s Eve–or, in other words, a built in excuse to eat too much candy without guilt. This year, Chez mimi will be disgorging a slightly (only very slightly) naughty Alice in Wonderland and a Rastafarian to ply the neighbors for free goodies. Wonder who’s showing up at the door?In the witch’s kettle: fun size Twix, Milky Way, and Three Musketeers. I probably should have bought...
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Natal Days

Posted by on Oct 6, 2010 in dish | 0 comments My grandfather, accomplished raconteur and all-around gentleman that he was, used to refer to birthdays with the quaint term “natal day” when writing birthday letters and the like. Daddy has picked it up, usually wishing me a happy natal day on one of the cards he sends (one’s always funny, one’s always “a serious card” in honor and mockery of a long-ago Hallmark TV commercial).Well, today is,...
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Roundup

Posted by on Dec 31, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Closing the book on 2009–it’s been a good year. Interesting. Weird. Frustrating. You know, the usual. I did manage to read 135 books (some re-reads, but mostly new titles). I’m finally unstuck with the current WIP, and even though it’s moving more slowly than I’d like, it’s moving. We took a family trip to Washington, DC (awesome!), rode/survived the train,...
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Merry Christmas

Posted by on Dec 25, 2009 in dish | 0 comments It came upon the midnight clear,That glorious song of old,From angels bending near the earth,To touch their harps of gold:”Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,From heaven’s all-gracious King.”The world in solemn stillness lay,To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies they come,With peaceful wings unfurled,And still their heavenly music floatsO’er all the...
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Not. Going. Shopping. Today.

Posted by on Nov 27, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Period.If I’m smart, I won’t even get out of my pajamas.
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