I have the best faculty in the world. Yesterday, the day after Steve Jobs passed away, this card was in my mailbox:
Matt Haden also posted a facebook photo.
by Lloyd 4 Comments
I have the best faculty in the world. Yesterday, the day after Steve Jobs passed away, this card was in my mailbox:
Matt Haden also posted a facebook photo.
by Lauren 5 Comments
Every so often I gather up the stacks and stacks of papers from their various surfaces and plop myself in front of the t.v. to deal with them. Junk mail gets ripped up, recyclable stuff gets sorted, and possibly-important envelopes get opened, usually with my finger.
OOOOWWWW!!!!! I got a papercut that I believe went to the bone! Ok, maybe not, but who can tell? I sure didn’t look – I just pinched the flesh closed and popped a bandaid on that digit.
Letter openers for me from now on, thank you.
(This is how dry my posting well has become. I’m writing about a papercut, for cryin’ out loud.)
by Lauren 8 Comments
Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple computer, has passed away.
Lloyd’s asleep as I write this. He doesn’t even know yet, and I can’t bear to wake him with such sad news, so I got his clothes ready for tomorrow.
Thanks for all the cool gadgets, Steve. I confess that I got a little teary tonight.
I’ve been trying to think of something to post about off-and-on all evening, but in truth I’m actually just waiting for 9 o’clock so I can go to bed.
I believe I’ve been feeling a mid-life crisis coming on. No need to buy any extravagant item (that’s usually guys, right?) – just a vague sense of dissatisfaction.
Then I realize how indulgent that sounds.
Then I realize that I’m really too lazy to have a crisis.
Then I notice that it’s 8:50. Good enough.
(No photo today – I don’t know how to take a picture of my midlife. Midriff, yes, but no one wants to see that.)
by Lauren 3 Comments
I got to go into Lincoln this weekend, and was so excited because I loaded up a bunch of The Splendid Table podcasts to listen to as I drove around and did my errands. I love The Splendid Table – it’s like watching Food Network with out the hassle of using your eyes.
Every time I listen to the show, I think, “Well, of course I should make that! It’s just throwing (main food item) together with (some secondary item) and (some seasoning) and then (method of heating). It sounds so scrumptiously healthy yet deliciously decadent!”
Then I pull into Burger King and order a Whopper Jr. meal (with cheese).
This time I was lured into a story about a woman who had an abundance of lavender, and Lynne Rosetto Kasper told her that she should use it to make lavender sugar and use that in a crispy sugar cookie recipe, and I was suckered in. “I have lavender! I could make delicate sugar cookies and eat them with tea – each scented by the light floral aroma of lavender sugar.” I could feel my “English-lady-for-teatime” self welling up, and couldn’t wait to rush home.
Well, I put a lavender twig in with my cheap sugar on Sunday,
and tonight I just opened the jar and smelled it.
Hmmmm…. it’s less ‘English Lady’ and more ‘Old English Furniture Polish’-smelling.
…. maybe I didn’t use lavender?
Warning: This post has almost as much shame and disaster as Pop-N-Dog.
I’ll admit that sometimes in church I get distracted. (God loves me anyway – he made me, y’know.) Many Sundays back I was singing a hymn and the thought popped into my head, “Y’know what would be funny? A cake shaped like a clerical collar. Isn’t October Clergy Appreciation Month?” Great. The whole rest of the service was spent trying to put that thought off until a more acceptable time.
Fail.
I mentioned it to Lloyd after church and he thought it was funny enough that we stopped by the cake decorating aisle at Wal*Mart and looked at fondant. I’m a failure with fondant, so I hemmed and hawed and decided to wait.
A week later I went to Lincoln and bought some stuff, including something made just for me – edible construction paper!
A week after that, I actually made some cake. I lined the bottom of the pan with a parchment circle and even ‘crumb-coated’ them so when I put on the final frosting it wouldn’t make a big mess. Thanks, YouTube, for your educational services.
Ummmm…. then the cakes sat in the freezer – unwrapped – for days until I remembered to wrap them. (This project was slow going.) I was pretty sure they were dried out and inedible, but since I knew from the get-go that these were just prototypes, I sallied forth.
I frosted them, then cut the sugar sheet out. A paper cutter worked just dandy, and scissors cut out the notch.
I wound up frosting two cakes, but only making one into a clerical collar, and that was two weeks ago. We have three pastors at church, so if I want to do this for real, going by my timetable I need to start next June so they’ll be ready by next October.
Ahhhh….. Lauren’s world – where crazy ideas go to die. What am I going to do with two dried-up frozen cakes? Maybe cake pops….