I completely blew off my To-Do List (see previous entry) yesterday. I had a great reason. My wee tiny Tupperware cake tote arrived and I needed to make a wee tiny cake so that I could take a picture. Here is the picture:
Yellow Cake with Molasses Caramel Frosting. I got a cavity licking the bowl.
You can get your own from the Tupperware website. It’s meant to be a CD holder but holds a mini layer cake perfectly.
1) What I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
I was just finishing my first year as a House Mother at the boarding high school attached to my alma mater (seriously, I wouldn’t make that up). I was also working on Art Education certification to go with my BFA – with my hours in the gallery and the hours for the house mother stuff, hey, free degree. The year after that was much more interesting.
2) 5 Things on My To-Do List for Today
pay bills
get the sketches for the t-shirt backs finished and scanned
grocery store
grocery list (these are probably in the wrong order)
wrap a present from Great Gran to Mom (Mom is here so she won’t read this until she gets home)
3) Snacks I Enjoy
CAKE, cheese, bread, cookies, crackers (I could go on)
4) Things I Would Do If I Were a Billionaire
Invest! And build a feral cat sanctuary. By the time I am through with the sanctuary, the invested money will have made more money and I can have a foundation that helps me locate projects to fund. Oh, and I bet my Mom and Dad would move here faster if I built them a house.
5) Places I Have Lived
Georgia and Alabama
6) 5 Peeps I Wanna Know More About:
I haven’t been able to keep up with who’s done this one already.
Now it’s time to get to work on my To-Do List! I should write “Smooch Ellie” on there so that I always have something to cross off. Happy Weekend!
I guess this is because nobody likes to be cold and damp?
Finally! Photographic evidence! It might even be admissible in court.
Happy Memorial Day, y’all.
Look! The Mars Phoenix has his foot in some of his pictures!
Guess what this is!
Michael attended Startupriot in Atlanta to pitch his new company.* Ellie and I went along to practice our Travel Skills and visit my folks for a couple days. This trip was double our Experimental Overnight to Biloxi for Free Cone Day: twice as far, two nights, one night without Michael at bedtime – which we’ve done before but not in a “strange” place. The trip went smoothly, with one exception: a significant unwillingness on the part of the aforementioned baby to nap. I finally got her to sleep and just left her on my lap. Luckily, I could reach the strap of my knitting bag with my toe and my laptop was already in the bed.
My folks have the wi-fi. And I love them for it.
I was satisfied with this arrangement until I finished both the legs and realized that my pattern was downstairs on the kitchen table. I desperately wanted to call my Mom from my cell phone to get her to bring it to me, but I was afraid that would rouse the kid. My Darling Sister Favor of the Day had been used when I texted her to call Mom to tell her why I never came back from putting Ellie to sleep. So I resigned myself to reading blogs until the nap was over. Progress reached a standstill until the next morning.
Those are Gracie’s feet.
I didn’t get a whole lot done in the car due to the ban on front seat knitting, so I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
In an effort to get this Napping Situation under control, the new strategy is a loose schedule (she IS only three months old) coupled with a napping routine that is similar to the bedtime one. I won’t jinx our progress by telling you how well it is going – but the fact that I am blogging should be a hint.
*He says to tell you if any of you are interested in investing in a early-stage technology company, to send an email for more information to: michael@divvs.com
