This year.. I received my first Rising Star award at work. (Oh, I’m receiving one for 2004 too!) We were approved for a mortgage. And after 7 years of apartment living, we bought a house! …which I almost burned down…
Christmas Wrapup
I can’t believe it’s over. I wait all year for Christmas, I get one measly day off and it’s done. Christmas Eve we went to my cousin Sue’s house. She had “Seven Fishes” Christmas Eve dinner, which is a tradition…
All is calm
Thor’s parents are here, and all is well. In appreciation of their visit, Max crapped in the dining room. Lovely dog. Really. (rolls eyes) I’m dismissing myself shortly. Nothing to do here, except surf the web. So in case I…
It goes both ways
On the way home from work, I passed a Holiday Inn. On its message board was the line, “There is always room at our Inn.” Alert! Alert! Somebody notify the PC police, because I THINK that note invokes the Christmas…
Breaking up is hard to do
It pains me to tell you this. But I’m ending CookieCam early this year. It just didn’t work out as I planned. Why? Late hours at the job leave me exhausted at night. The last two years I was out…
Oh by gosh by golly
It’s been a while, so I wanted to show you what we’ve been doing here at Chez LadyGypsy whilst I’ve been not blogging and not baking. We have a guest room! It’s a spiffy, relaxing blue room, with a few…
O! The Humanity!
I brought my trusty 3-year-old digital camera to Buca Di Beppo last night to document John’s birthday dinner. Which, by the way, was wonderful. Lotsa pasta and bread and … wow. At Christmas, when Doctor Dave is trim and dashing,…
Black Friday
We’re still managing to kick Black Friday’s ass and send it crying to it’s Momma. We took the Patco Hi-Speedline to the 8th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Shopped…Strawbridge’s (This one had my coat, in my size, still too expensive)Burlington…
Black Friday, 2004
We arrived at Sears at 5:45 for its 6:00am opening…the prize was a cherished $10 gift card given to the first 200 people. The line snaked around the corner of the building. We were hopeful, but alas, we arrived too…
Black Friday inspiration
Black Friday “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of…
Thanksgiving 2004
Thankful This morning, as I continued to coax my turkey into the land of the defrosted, I took a look back at what I wrote last year on Thanksgiving so darned if I’m going to write it out again. 😉…
Ring a ding ding, baby
Ring a ding ding, babyWhile I was at Target a few nights ago picking up the cat food and other sundries, I came across a Frank Sinatra Christmas CD. I’m a big Frank fan, but as soon as I saw…
