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Sweet sentiments running through my head when I woke up this morning. Plus, the band’s name is just cool.
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Two Random Things
A) These are adorable…
Chairs made out of the metal tops of champagne bottles, with the date of opening inscribed on the bottom to mark special occasions. A friend used to have a small collection of these on the window ledge above her kitchen sink and I always marveled at them and wondered how to make them. Leave it to Martha to give us the low down.
B) As if I didn’t think Nigella Lawson was awesome enough, she goes and writes this great cookbook review. Her prose is beautiful and totally goes toward explaining the porn-y nature of her cooking shows. The woman is entranced by food. I was entranced by her writing.
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Cheers to a New Year
Sooo, did the holidays swallow you up whole, too?
The week between Christmas and New Year’s was a whirlwind. Between my niece’s fairy-filled 2nd birthday party and a little magic of my own, the days really got away from me. I’ve been going nonstop since then.
January just so happens to be the busiest month of the year at my job and this week is when it picks up the most speed. Of course, I’ve added even more to the mix by moving, spending lots of time with someone special, and enjoying an out-of-town outing with my family. I had to go to my weekly yoga class tonight just to have a moment to breathe.
I’ll be sure to update more about everything (including uploading photos when I figure out how to prevent my new camera from crashing my old computer every time I connect the two) very soon. In the meantime, check out my horoscope for the past week:
Happiness isn’t a state you acquire by luck. It takes hard work and relentless concentration. You have to rise up and rebel against the nonstop flood of trivial chaos and meaningless events you’re invited to wallow in. You have to overcome the hard-core cultural conditioning that tempts you to assume that suffering is normal and the world is a hostile place. It’s really quite unnatural to train yourself to be peaceful and mindful; it’s essentially a great rebellion against an unacknowledged taboo. Here’s the good news: 2012 will be an excellent time for you to do this work.
Bring on the happiness in 2012!
Santa!!!
Merry Christmas, everyone!! I hope that Santa was good to you and that you were good to him.
I’m celebrating this weekend with lots of family, our traditional tamale-making marathon, other delicious foods, presents, and general merriment. It’s my niece’s first Christmas where she has some idea of what’s going on. She even sang “Jingle Bells” to us last night (literally….the only part she knows is “Jingle bells, jingle bells”).
What are your Christmas traditions?
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Morning Music
(Someone mentioned this song yesterday, so of course I woke up with it in my head this morning.)
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