So, I guess, Merry Christmas and stuff.
I waited until most of you have gone to sleep to whip out some of my favorite Christmas music. Who would've thought that an atheist like myself would prefer Christmas music about Jesus?
To all of my Vox neighbors, friends and family I hope you find a bit of peace and even some joy this holiday weekend. It's been a tough year for a lot of us and I know many of us won't be spending the holidays with those we love the most. My heart especially goes out to those of you who have lost close friends and family in the past year. Love to you all, Val
a Merry Christmas, or a belated Happy Hanukkah, or a slightly-belated Blessed Solstice, or just a Happy Holiday and long weekend.
Hope it's good, whether you're covered in family and snow, or by yourself.
Extra special skritches for the four-footed babies.
Hi everybody!
The internet connection on my parents' dial-up is spotty at best. I tried to catch up with the hood today and couldn't download pics or even comment. Heck, it wouldn't even let me create a post. For some reason, I couldn't type anything in the text box. Huh.
So I'm standing next to a window to try and catch small rays of AT&T service. I guess it's all Verizon out here.
Update: the baby in the basement didn't make it. She passed on last week, but not for lack of trying.
Last night I played Wii fit with my nieces. The first time around, with help on the balancing test from Steve's big stupid happy dog, I scored a Wii fit age of 48. Unassisted, I scored a 35. W00t!
I wish all of you a joyous holiday season. I am so thankful to be a part of this warm and loving network of caring people. You have made my life richer by your wisdom, humor and sincerity. Or just straight up goofiness. :-)
Be kind to one another and especially to yourselves.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
I swear I will. In the meantime, again, there's presents to you all from me and Edgar. And now here are two of my favourite Christmas songs/versions. Now it's off to Mom's. Later, kids.
best wishes to all of you as we celebrate the return of light
be happy amongst your loved ones
Nothing reminds you of all your weird single-person-who-lives-alone quirks like having a guest for an extended period of time. Kelli's here for the holidays and I pity her having to deal with me. I sing. A lot.
Every once in awhile I remember that someone else is here and I feel like this:
And mostly when I notice I'm singing, I've been singing this:
Merry Christmas!
I didn't make it to bed until 1:30 again last night. I know some people can handle it, but I can't. Getting up at 6:15 is brutal. Zombie girl. At least last night I was up making delicious cookies and cookie doughs.
My vanilla bean cookie dough and my Mexican Tea Cake dough are in the fridge, ready to be baked tonight. I did finish my sugar spice cookies (a molasses cookie) and my chocolate chip cookies last night.
I had told Cranky about my vanilla bean cookies and I think she said she hadn't seen a vanilla bean (or maybe that was a conversation with someone else). In any event, it's a good excuse to show you my beans (tee hee, that sounds kinda dirty).
The bean itself is sort of waxy and flexible. It doesn't smell like much, but you can almost smell a hint of vanilla.
Here you can see the delicious and fragrant innards. It's like a gritty, black paste. No those are not giant warts on my thumb, it's flecks of dough.
I want to rename my Mexican Tea Cakes to Val's Tea Cakes - not because I'm PC, but because they took a lot of damn work last night. I know I'm not supposed to use my coffee grinder for my nuts, but I always used my cheap old one and it was perfect (besides, I have no problems with mingling the flavors of coffee and pecan). Not thinking that my new grinder is a burr type instead of the kind with blade, I tried to put my pecans through it. It was pushing 1AM, I was not thinking clearly. Mr. Val took over the repairs on the grinder while I chopped and chopped and chopped and chopped until I had a finely ground heap of pecans. Usually my tea cake dough takes me five minutes (and four of those are making the butter and sugar fluffy with a mixer!!), but last night it took a half hour after battling with the grinder (again, stupid on my part, I know).
Merry Christmas Eve to you all.
Due to the "wintry mix" that we got today, my neighborhood is a solid sheet of ice. I got stuck in the intersection on the walk back from the bus stop and a neighbor helped me cross the street because I was sliding all over the place. I don't know how I'm supposed to get to work tomorrow - more freezing rain is on the way! Yay!!!
Also, I made brownies tonight and they're taking forever to cool. Irony is cruel.
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