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Peggy

Dang it, Peggy.

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So, I have a minor problem with being short-term-obsessive about certain things – ukuleles, bread, cheap sources of heat. Eventually I calm down, but it takes a while. Right now the obsession is with making movies. After the last movie, Peggy’s comment was this:

Again, another great video!! I too think you’ve missed your real calling. And although normal stinks, I think if you set normal to the right music, normal would rock. Give it a try will ya?

Not that I think my movies are so great, but as soon as I read that I knew just the song.

It’s called “Ordinary Day” by Great Big Sea. The following is a Lauren’s-eye view of a day, complete with grungy sinks, blurry photos, and an unfortunate cat montage. It’s going to be three and a half minutes of your life, so click carefully.

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I love my iMac, Lloyd!

Move over, Starbucks.

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I felt productive tonight. Dinner, laundry (seems like I’m always doing laundry), cleaned the upstairs, took out the trash, unwrapped the sheet from the truck (which was much harder than taking the one off the car), made cookie dough (thanks to Peggy’s influence), and also some hot chocolate. Lloyd didn’t have school today, and he isn’t quite recovered from his cold, so I made real hot chocolate – milk, a handful of chocolate chips, a splash of vanilla and a bigger splash of coffee just for kicks.

mmmmmm.....chocolate calcium...

I grated the chocolate with a cool little microplane from my sister. It’s wicked sharp, and it always smells like nutmeg or chocolate because I never wash it. I’m too afraid I’ll lose a fingerprint. I can’t seem to load the picture of it, and I’m sick of trying. You’ll just have to imagine it. Sorry.

For the Mat Gallery

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This was an experiment during one of my busy nights – individual fried bacon mats. They cooked quickly (about five minutes) but fell apart on the third flip. Nothing like trying to re-weave hot bacon as it fries. Plus they weren’t as nice and flat as baked bacon. Mission accomplished, though. Next time I might try microwaving, but I’m sure the texture would suffer.

Raw.

Cooked and tragic

I wrote this post before Peggy sent me some fantastic pictures!  Hopefully this week I’ll get the gallery started, but I gotta tell you – Peggy will win all the prizes.