OK, OK, even I’m getting a little tired of Christmas by now, so I really need to wrap up some of these things I’ve got sitting around here. I really wanted to keep all the decorations up until the end…
O Christmas Tree…..
I may have mentioned that we go bonkers for Christmas around here. A little bit. Around the edges. But we come by it honestly. Bear’s parents set the standard that we can only hope to aspire to. Next year I’ll…
Year of Pleasures #7
I found these pajamas at Costco back in January, and I went back and got one in every color. They’re made of a fabric called “Soybu” – part Soy plant and part Bamboo plant. They are just the softest, most…
Year of Pleasures #6
Look at this awesome little gadget! I got it at a fancy cooking store at an outlet mall nearby. I was there with my mother-in-law Marie and my sister-in-law with her two boys. Marie went inside just because she loves…
What did people do before the internet?
I got an ipod for Christmas, and I’m crazy about it. It’s revolutionized the way I work around the house, the way I go grocery shopping, the way I stayed sane at the boring desk job, and best of all,…
Year of Pleasures #5
My Sirius satelite radio. I got it for Christmas last year at the same time – through an accident of planning and communication – that I got my ipod. At the time I thought it was ridiculous to lay out…
Year of Pleasures #4
A wonderful part of living in San Diego? Costco carries flats of Coke imported from Mexico. This means that they not only come in a bottle (everything should come in a bottle – it gets colder and tastes way better)…
Year of Pleasures #3
Ah, freshly made Dilly Bars, how I love you. Our local Dairy Queen seems to be having some issues. Their main freezer is broken so they can’t do any cakes (and oh man a dairy queen ice cream cake with…
Year of Pleasures #2
I’m not a fan of most of our landscaping. I’m actually not a fan of a lot of Southern California landscaping, because so much of it consists exclusively of palm trees and birds of paradise. Our backyard right now is…
Torn between two lovers
We started reading Harry Potter on Saturday. We have a tradition of reading them out loud together, usually Bear reads while I work on one project or another. I can’t bear the thought of buying the book twice like a…