Happy New Year~!

what, you might be wondering, am i doing to celebrate the ringing in of the new year? absolutely nothing! i will most likely be asleep when it comes! i finally caught whatever horrific cold/flu my husband had last week — blech. i thought it was going to pass me by, but i am not so lucky!

the past two days were spent going to and from boise, idaho. and although there are many many things one would want to visit in that fabulous town, we were just there for spencer’s friend’s wedding. he was married in the boise, idaho temple, and we drove in the night before with some friends — sadly, the trip back was not as pleasant as it could be b/c there was a storm rolling through – including wind, rain, slush, ice, and snow~! gah! i hate driving in that stuff. so i am still unneccesarily paranoid about driving (or being the passenger) in that kind of weather since my accident a year ago (in similar horrible icy conditions). but thankfully, we arrived home safe and sound.

what i *REALLY* need right now is some curry in a hurry. sadly, my indentured servant.. i mean husband can’t be convinced to go out and get me any. probably because he already figured out what we’re having for dinner. i just didn’t realize earlier that i wanted indian food! but now i do!

seriously, though, he’s been taking really good care of me. i’m even more of a brat than usual with this cold — usually it’s just a headache/nausea, whatever…..now my head is stuffed up and i feel like i’ve been run over by a truck. this doesn’t make for a particularly pleasant emilir. he’s taking good care of me.

the middle of the week

well, some exciting news in the world of emily; tomorrow spencer and i are going to leave for a wedding up in idaho! i don’t think i’ve ever been to idaho before. if i have, it was just driving through. one of spencer’s very good friends is getting married on friday, and we have been invited. of course, being the masters of planning ahead, we’ll go out today to purchase the wedding present.

it’s been great to have spencer home for the break; he’s been able to just relax and hang out this week, so that has been a welcome change for both of us! soon it’ll be back to the regular grind, but for now i’m really enjoying having him home!

Merry Christmas!

well — i want to wish those of you who celebrate Christmas a very merry Christmas — and to those of you who don’t; happy Hannukah – happy kwanzaa – and happy holidays.

i’m not trying to be politically correct; and i don’t think that the conservative Christian right is taking over America……i also don’t think that being too ‘tolerant’ of others’ religions will dim our own celebrations or beliefs……but i do believe that it can be insulting to others for us to assume that their own beliefs mirror our own. while people mean it to be friendly and cheery, seems to me that if i were jewish i’d get tired of hearing ‘merry christmas!’ around this time of year.

just my humble opinion. and since this is my blog, hey! that’s what you get to read!

happy holidays everyone~!

another day, another dollar

what does the title mean?

i don’t know. but spencer and i have had a MARVELOUS day, in spite of my having a headache today. it was better and then worse, and then better, and then — you get the picture. but he came with my grocery shopping (always a treat for me), and then took me out to lunch at cafe rio — which i loved. then afterwards, out of the blue he suggested we get some ice cream. i was like, um ‘YEAH?!’ i love ice cream. so that was awesome. ah, first things first. he turned in his project this morning, thus allowing for all the fun. (fun fun till her daddy takes the T bird away…)

in any case, after that i made some more cookies — chocolate chip, for this weekend’s family get together. tomorrow i need to finish making the thumbprint cookies. the dough is done, but i got too tired afterwards to do the rest.

tomorrow afternoon is go time for family festivities. we’re all going over to my sister’s house for the Christmas eve traditions: including (but not limited to) the reading of the Christmas story – the picking out of insanely sugary cereal (read: arguing over) — and whatever other things suit our fancy! it’s gonna be like a giant sleepover; everyone who’s coming is going to be there the night before…so that’s cool. be there or be square, baby!

golf carts

so earlier today, husband and i were driving down the highway — heading to drop off a few presents; when he sees an entire semi full of golf carts! ‘there you go’ he says, ‘all the golf carts you could ever need.’

i told him ‘i only need one!’ — this hearkens back to days when i was trying to go to school (college) full time while i had the migraines occuring daily. needless to say, it wasn’t pretty. one thing i found for sure, though, is that i was a lot better off the less i had to walk around. it was especially bad if i spent a lot of time walking up hills or stairs. this just gets the blood pumping, which is GREAT if you’re looking for cardiovascular exercise, but really *not great* if the beat of your heart is also the beat of your migraine. raising the old heart rate really makes the headaches worse. soooooo, always a woman of great intellectual prowess, i told him that what i needed was a golf cart to drive around in. i was cool in the buildings, you know, they have elevators and stuff. and i could do that little bit of walking. but GETTING there, that was a big challenge. my dear husband said that they are expensive. hm. not good. well then, how about a wagon? you could pull me around? or a shopping cart? that seems to be a really good solution for many homeless people — they keep all their stuff in it, i would just ride in it. spencer says the shopping cart is illegal (darn!) and the wagon is ridiculous. hmmmmm…thinking…thinking….

finally i hit upon the perfect solution: an ostrich. that’s right. i’ll just ride an ostrich around campus. you’ve seen the swiss family robinson, right? well, you’re not going to believe this, but he said it was ‘impractical’. party pooper.

no feeling well again today — unfortunate, yes, but it’s ok. i feel grateful that i had enough good days that i was able to get all our Christmas shopping and wrapping done. spencer doesn’t have time; he’s finishing up his senior project. and it is important that it get done!

so i’ve been in bed resting all morning (and the early afternoon) — spencer is driving me to drop off a few presents at his aunt’s house, and then we need to pick up a few things at the grocery store. ah yes. my life is the stuff that novels are made of. very boring novels, at least. if i feel better later on i’ll make some more cookies. if i can’t get a second batch made soon, the batch i first made will be stale! ack.

i had this crazy dream last night (actually this morning) that i slept in (accurate so far….) and when i woke up, there were TONS of people in our apartment. ours is not a large apartment, so even just a large group will seem crowded. but in my dream there were hundreds and hundreds; there was actually a bus out front that had brought a lot of them. i finally found spencer and asked him what was going on; he said that we were hosting the stake barbeque. i said, well i wish you would’ve told me about this. he said ‘i did!’ pretty hilarious stuff.

that is all.

more KFC happenings….

so if all else fails, and you can’t think of any super easy gourmet food…..go to KFC! yes, that’s the answer!

whilst we were at KFC, enjoying the ambiance and fried chicken (with Zinger sauce) — i tried to make a joke. you’d think my husband, who loves me so much, would be kind of on my wavelength, and get my jokes, right? WRONG! he said, and i quote, “sometimes when you try to make a joke, you confuse me more than make me laugh.” ouch. he didn’t mean it as an insult, he just was genuinely confused at my attempt at humor.

now THAT was a zinger.

mrnert

wellllllll it’s only wednesday, but it feels like saturday! crazy how that works. hubby is home, working on his senior project from here. so that’s really nice. unfortunately, i am (again) not feeling well. blech.

the past two days were reasonably good. but today just isn’t. i did get to go over to my sister’s house this afternoon; but not for long. i just wasn’t up to it! my husband was kind enough to drive me over there.

hey does anybody have any ideas for delicious food that’ll cook itself? b’/c that’s about what i want right about now…….mmmmm….food…..

still monday — can you BELIEVE it?

yes, the day is nearly done; i did make the cookies (one set at least) and the bread. so while it feels *great* to get that out of my system, i have a headache back again. i’m not sure if it just got worse on its own, or if i overdid it today with my ’strenuous’ activities. yikes, it’s like i’m 90 years old or something. hello???? i cooked for a few hours!?!? we just won’t go there

but i made some snickerdoodles, and tomorrow i’ll make maybe some jam thumbprint cookies, or maybe some sugar cookies to frost. that’d be fun. seems to me that when you got cookies from neighbors, the best plates were the ones that had more than one kind of cookies on them….

of course that always leads to ‘favorite’ and ‘less favorite’ cookies…right? ah well, what can you do?

monday :-)

well, it’s a beautiful monday morning here in salt lake city; i woke up and there was snow on the ground; it’s actually really pretty and serene looking. and even better, i don’t have to go out in it! later today i do, but this morning i am just hanging out at home, awaiting the UPS man and my husband’s lappy top….. we’re hoping they’ll let me sign for it. but by the time i have to go out this afternoon, the roads will probably be cleared.

i’m feeling better today; this makes me really REALLY happy; i hope that keeps up so i can do a few of the things i’ve been wanting to: like make christmas cookies, make some homemade bread – you know, fun christmas stuff!