eggnog and fruitcake

So, how many like eggnog? How about fruitcake?

I grew up with eggnog and fruitcake at christmas. and fondue christmas eve, and cheese logs and crackers (especially Twigs), and hot (vege) chicken salad, and homemade cranberry sauce... but back to eggnog and fruitcake. I'm not the biggest fan of either, but I enjoy a little once a year.

I realize that not all people like eggnog. And not all people like fruitcake (although I have a really good recipe for a no-bake fruitcake made w/ graham crackers). But it makes me wonder - what is it about eggnog or fruitcake that people don't like?

my favorite things...

are at Crate and Barrel (http://www.crateandbarrel.com). I love Crate and Barrel. Granted, I've only been in their store twice (it's not my fault they've no stores near me!), and I only own two pinecone candles from them. But I still love them. They have all sorts of cool stuff, like bright colored sheets, dishes, and rugs. And really cool accessories for the home.

For now, I just enjoy perusing their web page and finding cool goldfish ornaments (http://www.crateandbarrel.com/itemgroups/6165_0.asp). And when the catalog comes, I pour over it and imagine how I could decorate with cool things they have, and realize that someday, maybe I'll own more than pinecone candles from Crate and Barrel :)

bad weather...

So last Sunday morning, we woke to snow. And it snowed for half the day, giving us about 2 inches of snow. Then Monday afternoon, it snowed until 5pm or so, giving us another inch or so. Then Tuesday afternoon, it snowed again, and we had another inch. The trees in the park along the way to work looked so cool, all branches covered in snow. We had at least 4 inches of wonderful white snow. Wednesday afternoon came along, and it started to snow. But then the snow turned to rain, and it kept raining, and the snow began melting. And it kept raining, and melting the snow. Wednesday night and Thursday it warmed up into the 40s, and melted the snow.

So now we just have "bare" looking land, with no more snow. I'm very disappointed in the rain.

Hooray for snow!!

Today, it's snowing. We have a good 2 inches I'd say, and it's still kind of snowing. On the way to work this morning, about 5 miles from home, we make a left turn onto another road, then hit the highway. Well, this other road, Hatch, is a hill. And as we came to the stop sign, there were about 6 cars ahead of us waiting to turn. Looking to the right, up the hill, I saw a couple cars stopped and along the side, then up a hundred yards, another two cars stopped. There was a whole line of cars slowly making their way down the hill as well. So we waited and waited. We got to see one car slide in the ditch, another car behind that one slide sideways and barely stop before it hit the other one. Then we saw a school bus have to slow and stop for cars going up the hill, the it started sliding back, and it slid sideways, across the road, into the oncoming lane, and then into the ditch. Then another school bus came up behind that one, but backed up and stopped.

So, we finally made it out, with busses chaining up and cars sliding along the road... kind of fun, yet a bit scary. I don't want to get run into.

mmm, I sure would love a big hamburger right about now.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6498304/?GT1=5809

If you're going to be ordering this big burger, it's not likely that you're watching your weight, carb intake, calories, fat, etc. etc.

I think people are a bit too overly sensitive. If you really care about caloric intake, you'll either find out about the calories of what you think you want, or you'll bring your healthy nut bars and yogurt (or fruit or whatever it is these days so you are "healthy") and you will just not even eat at fast food places...

I say bring on the fat!

Washington State Pen

Check this out... Thought it was kind of cool

http://spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=37321

weekend work

So we have about 2 weekends a year that we have to work. This is one of those fun weekends.

Friday night/Saturday, we have Family Fellowship Festival, which is campmeeting/convocation for our conference/area.

Sunday we have New Member Day, which I am in charge of. We invite each person who has been baptized/profession of faith into our church in the last year to come to our conference office and see what goes on there, and share their story, and just have a better understanding of our church.

It's a good weekend, just long and a lot of work. Especially for some people, as there's those who do not ever help, and those that "won't be here for that".

chiropractor

So my mother-in-law (still seems weird to say that) was here a few weeks back. We were out shopping for car parts and other things. We stopped at a really cool place for lunch, the Staggering Ox (http://www.staggeringox.com/). Kevin and I had had sandwiches from them before, and enjoyed it. So, in the restaurant, I saw a little box to sign up to win up to 3 free sessions at a chiropractic place. I've needed to go to a chiropractor for years, but have not for various reasons. So being me, I signed up (I enjoy signing up for things, even though I never won, except once at a Warren Miller show in college - I won gloves.)

Anyway, a week later I get a call from HealthQuest (http://healthquestchiropractic.net) telling me that I'd won, and to set up an appointment. So two Fridays later, I went in. I was a little skeptical, as I'd never been to a chiropractor, didn't know this guy from Adam, and wasn't sure what to expect. I get there and this young guy who looks to be mid twenties gives me papers to fill out with some weird questions - did you fall down while learning to walk, was your birth natural/cesearean, were drugs used, etc. etc. - things I don't really know, or I didn't see the relivancy in. So I fill out the papers, and he takes me back to the room, then proceeds to start talking. I realize at that point that he's the doc, not the receptionist.

He's way cool, and turns out he's a chiropractor because it "makes sense" to him. He's really into it, and you can tell that he loves it by the way he acts, along with the fact that he says he loves it. He has all sorts of cool stories of how he's helped little paralyzed newborns (they leave the hospital with full movement!), and how he's helped people in other countries. He's great to talk to, plus (first day there) he gave me a buy one get one free sandwich coupon at Staggering Ox for me and my friend who had never been there before.

I've been there 3 times now, and do notice that my body feels better. Hopefully it continues.

I knew I needed a chiropractor, and had recently been thinking that I should find one, but just hadn't gotten around to it. I probably never would have found this guy if I were just looking for a chiropractor - he's not that close to my home, and I don't know anyone who goes to him (how I found my dentist and doc). He has good beliefs, and is just a way cool guy.

It's kind of neat how God works things out for me...

Missing items

On Thursday when I left work, I had 3 dying balloons and a little cement block weight that held them down on my desk. My boss had a call to another job, but he didn't take it, and so last week we had a "Yeah, you're staying" party thing and I got some balloons after it was over.

Today one balloon was left on my desk, cut from the other balloons and the cement block. The cement block and the other two balloons are missing.

I'm a bit disturbed that someone came to my desk and took things. My first guess was it was the cleaning people. But the cleaning people barely empty my trash can, why on earth would they make the effort to reach around my computer into the corner of my desk and take balloons and a cement weight.

Second thought was it was someone that was here for a meeting yesterday. I don't doubt that someone here for a meeting, or visiting the ABC, or children of workers or meeting people would come around and snoop to see what they could get. People with candy on their desk get it taken all the time by cleaning people, or kids here with parents for meetings.

Well, after sending out an office email to find out what happened, it turns out it was the lady who organized the party for my boss. People could take the balloons, but she wanted the cement weights back. I never heard that announcement. Apparently others didn't either, so she came around recollecting them all when no one was here.

I'm a little happier knowing that it was in-house and not someone screwing with my stuff.

Sewer smell

There's a few people just down the hall from me that have been wandering around for 20 minutes trying to figure out "where that yucky smell is coming from. It's like a baby diaper."

I kind of smell something, but it's not that bad at my desk. But apparently one guy's office smells like a sewer. And it's just started in the last hour or so that we were in Monday morning worship, because it wasn't here at 7:20 when he got here...

Kind of weird.

one more hour

Hot diggity, I get to change my clock back one whole hour tonight! I love when we get to change the clock back - it's light a little earlier in the morning, which is great because I detest getting up in the dark! Sad that it then gets dark at 4:30p, but still I love the "extra" hour...

"working" people

So I'm at work today, going around delivering some papers. And I walk past this big color copy machine we have, and there's a coworker sitting there, in a chair, watching the paper feed from the tray into the copier. And the pile of paper going in is not just 5 pieces, there's a good chunk of paper there. I really wondered if she had nothing else to do during this time, and she really was waiting for the copier... or it it's just her normal way of doing things.

It just seemed so abnormal, I had to laugh.

"What did you do at work today honey?" "Well, I sat there and watched the copier take my paper! It was great!"

http://refer.flowgo.com/rsubf_ng.cfm?id=cdmebciStgawfDraz&l=79&p=173974&d=10-21-04

so I have a weakness for cute babies...

leaves

I love fall when the leaves change colors, and it's crisp out, and just beautiful. Makes it seem that everything is right.

Yesterday I went for a walk around the neighborhood w/ my husband. We have only pine trees in our yard, and no deciduous trees. So in my walking I picked up fallen leaves from all the neighbor's trees. A few years back I read about pressing leaves between wax paper and ironing them, then having them to hang or place around. I did try it a few years back, but somehow it didn't work out right (iron wasn't hot enough?). They didn't really get pressed together.

So now, that's my fun project for today :)

So I can't get anything to post...

Yes, I'm a loser. I type up a whole little post, and then click publish post, and nothing happens... bah.

So we'll try somthing simple to see if that works.