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  • Holiday Errands

    Today I had to focus on getting all of our Holiday stuff done. Took longer than I thought.

  • Earworm Wednesday: Christmas Edition

    I mean, Beaker and Miss Piggy make the song.

  • Doing Stuff, Out of Time

    Thought that I would have more time, but I ran outta time.

    Now I have to run off to Brooklyn. Volunteering, helping with some puppets. Been looking forward to it.

    Time management is a problem of mine.

    Or…

    I watched an episode of Supernatural with the wife, and lost track of time.

    Either way, I’m off.

  • Christmas Time’s Running Out

    Wasn’t Thanksgiving just last week? At least that’s what it feels like to me.

    You know what, it also feels like Christmas is about to be here, and I’m not ready!!!

    See all the exclamation points I used; that’s how you know I’m serious.

    Decorations went up last week, and we have started our shopping, but I can’t shake the feeling that I am running behind. I’m very anxious this year, and not sure why.

    There are many people out there that keep telling that the world is about to come to an end, or the ending is in process, or that things are changing and will never go back to the way they were.

    That could be part of it.

    But, I feel like there is this clock running, and that I can’t catch up to it. No matter what I do, I fall further and further behind.

    I want to have to Christmas joy and spirit in my life. I should be generating this, creating it for my family.

    But I feel like I am just hanging on this year. It might be a brave face, but I will face it, and put forth good cheer, and love toward my fellow man.

    Still…

    I feel off.

  • ODDS and ENDS: It’s Cold, Life with an Oxford Shirt, and Yellow Cake

    ODDS and ENDS: It’s Cold, Life with an Oxford Shirt, and Yellow Cake

    (Tin Roof! Rusted!)

    It’s winter now. That was fast. Seems like last week, it was still Autumn around here. And I don’t just mean because it was Thanksgiving back on last Thursday. No, there were still colored leaves on trees. Then, this morning, it was 21 out, and all the leaves were gone. Just bare trees, and cold winds.

    My mother used to always buy me blue Oxford Cloth Button Down shirts growing up. I hated the shirt style. It seemed too formal for a kid to wear, and if you did have one on and went to school, the other kids would make fun of you – call you a nerd. Though I always had one in my closet, just in case when I need to wear a tie. When I was in college, and hated doing laundry, I started wearing the Oxford shirts again, and on some level, it felt comfortable this time around. I am sure it had everything to do with no one calling me a nerd. I kept Oxfords in the rotation when I started working professionally, as they looked smart with a tie, but also not too formal, like I wasn’t trying to dress up. Now, it’s what I want to be in all the time. Not sure what that says about me.

    Sometimes I just want a box-mix yellow cake with chocolate icing for desert. I know that yellow cake doesn’t really have a unique flavor – I think it’s vanilla, right? But right now, I really want to have that lite, spongy sheet pan of a cake. And the icing as well. That cream cheese icing with coco powder. Nothing special, or ground breaking, just solid great tasting icing that isn’t too sweet, and with a slight hint of biter chocolate. That cake feels like the best comfort food I could have right now. Maybe ice cream would be more comforting, but it’s too cold for that. No, I want right out of the over yellow cake.