Miss Macchiato

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A couple of months ago I was searching around the internet for some ideas on a creative Christmas Eve service. What I didn’t want was the standard fare: Stale Christmas Carols with the usual candlelight, the same passages of scripture that are read every year and, after an uneventful hour, everyone goes home to [...]

Now that my boss is the newly crowned CIO, he is always trying to find ways to improve morale. It’s not a surprising move – IT has repeatedly had the lowest employee satisfaction scores in the company, and in the past few months the scores have dropped even lower. In my boss’ defense, it [...]

If this wasn’t already up to $152, I would buy this — but I’m not saying who I would inflict this upon.

eBay: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards

In case you can’t click the link, here is what the item description says:

You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, [...]

Every year I send out boxes of Christmas cookies to my friends. Well, I did skip a year just recently, but I’m back in full swing. The last group I sent out was extremely disappointing; a group of fruity recipes I had never tried before became the theme of my Christmas delicacies. [...]

The first snowstorm hit. We didn’t capture shots of what the back porch looks like (about three feet deep in snow) but we caught a bit of the front before the storm kicked in. If you add another two feet to what you see, it’s pretty accurate to what is going on out [...]

I found this linked on Alton Brown’s blog and wanted to also share it with you: Cave Cibum

Hilarious and clever. And scary. Great tastes that go together.

I wanted to wait until I was able to post pictures along with this, but I think I just really need to get it out of my system: Yesterday wrapped up the first semester of Architectural Drafting.

For the first half of the semester, we learned basic drafting techniques (with pencils and vellum, not with CAD) [...]

It’s been so busy that I had forgot to mention my Thanksgiving adventure. So here we go.

This is the first Thanksgiving that Tom and I would not be spending at home, just the two of us. His mother ended up not having to work on the holiday and wanted to have a family [...]