There is an emerging theme in my sabbatical activities: remaking my whole wardrobe. It is something that has never really gotten proper attention, especially not since I had a baby and my whole body changed, and I’m very glad that God is giving me some time and space to address it now.
I put [...]
This is for my own reference as much as anything else:
1. It’s much easier to format your book while you write it than to go back and format it all after it’s written. It took me almost as long to format the book as it did to write it.
2. Open Office Writer [...]
It is a very white Christmas here, and still lots of fluffy snow coming down. I’m tired because there were drunken Russians out yelling and playing in the snow right outside my window, at two or three in the morning, and because TLG wanted about twenty feedings during the night. Kind of in [...]
TLG is eight months old, and we have already seen him take a couple of unsupported steps while flinging himself at the ottoman. He is an enthusiastic eater. I don’t spoon-feed him very often, I just put things on his tray and he dives in with both fists. He is also in [...]
I was letting OLC play with the old Suzy Homemaker oven that my sister and I used to play with at my grandparents’ house, but forty-year-old turquoise plastic doesn’t stand up to a toddler very well, and I decided to salvage the burners and knobs, and make her a new toy stove.
I knew that the [...]
I’ve been cleaning up so many crumbs lately, that I can’t help thinking of the feeding of the five thousand, and the twelve baskets of bread and fish left over.
One of the things that the hippies/natural livers have been learning to live without is shampoo. A year ago, I gave the no ‘poo method a try. I didn’t want to blog about it, though, until I had tried it through the summer.
There is a good summary of the method here, except [...]
As a little sabbatical exercise, I started listing things I’ve done and endured in the last six years, and now I understand why I am so tired:
FOUR moves
Took half of the courses for a master’s degree in computer science (and maintained a respectable GPA), until I dropped out
While I was in school, I was also [...]
…was that it lowered my voice so much that I could sing right along with Johnny Cash songs. But now my voice is starting to return to its normal range, and I’m losing the lowest notes.
Otherwise, this has been one of the nastiest colds ever. At first, we thought it was the swine [...]