How about Bob?
Because, here’s the scoop sports fans: I’ve begun training for a half-marathon.
Are you OK? Finished laughing yourself silly yet? No? Ok. I’ll wait.
By “begun” I mean I’ve done a couple of little workouts this week and realized how out of shape I’ve gotten again. And bought a book and talked a lot about [...]
On the First Day of Christmas…
I woke up with Libby the Wonder Poodle on Christmas morning and made a pot of coffee. The boys got up around 9:00 and we ate our traditional breakfast of “sort of homemade” cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs (no bacon this year) and orange juice. Then we opened presents. The boys [...]
It is indeed a snowstorm for Teh Rekord Buks, but being hardy Minnesotans – or wracked with potential future guilt for “not trying hard enough” – we’re heading out for Grandma’s house.
The cranberries are sauced, sweet potatoes pre-baked to be finished on Grandma’s stove and the presents are bundled up. Now we have to bundle [...]
It’s about 10pm on Wednesday and the snow has started. We’ve got a little more than an inch of the wet kind of Styrofoam bead snow. Different models have different estimates of totals but the bottom line is that it is going to snow a lot around here in the next couple of days. There’s [...]
If the sun actually came up today, I don’t think you could prove it in Minneapolis. It has been a twilight sort of grey all day, barely getting bright enough to shut off the street lights. As I said yesterday, I am VERY glad that November was so much sunnier than normal because without that [...]
I gotta say, I’m not feeling much like writing tonight. Or this week. But it’s a discipline. And a lot easier one than exercising. So, a list of a few of the things for which I’m grateful this week:
Going to parties with G. Parties with my work friends, his work friends, my choir friends, his [...]
It was a new moon Wednesday night. So close to the solstice that means a very dark and long winter night indeed. Add to that the very frigid temperatures we’ve been having in Minne-snow-ta and you have a recipe for hunkering down and cocooning.
Of course, that’s not what we do on Wednesdays. On Wednesdays we [...]
It is a sad state of affairs when I can’t find my Christmas music or my microphone at this time of year! Tried recording something at choir tonight but the voice recorder thingy on my blackberry wasn’t in the mood.
So here is my simple contribution to Neilochka’s Seasonal Extravaganza known around the world as Christmahanukwanzaakah [...]
We have had several nights of below zero temps here in Minnesota with “dangerous” wind chills. Last night as I was huddled under my down comforters with my lavender heating pad trying to get warm, I heard this on the MPR Holiday Music Stream (click over there for a very nice sound track to whatever [...]
A few theological questions for this cold, dark, wintry night. (I know I haven’t posted in a few days and this seems a bit off the wall. And there are lovely details of the past week to record. But right now, this won’t get out of my head so that I can fall asleep. So [...]
