Regatta this morning....

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:53:19 GMT

Zzzzz.... Something about those 4am wake up calls...

Yesterday I baked for the team breakfast and lunch: two loaves of banana bread, two loaves of spice bread, three 9x13 pans of brownies. I also made the cake for dh's bday celebration tonight. Now I have to make parker house rolls (dh request) and frost the cake.

I'm making a Hostess Cupcake cake: very moist chocolate cake, marshmallow (aka 7min) frosting, and chocolate ganache on top. We'll see.

I'm so freaking done with baking or thinking about baking.

But I'll finish today's stuff...

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Another catchall post.

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 16:19:05 GMT

Life being what it is, I'm all about catchall posts that just get me writing. I like writing.

-- Annoyed: Linnea is supposed to be back for a mandatory! band camp a week before school starts. The reason? The band serves at the pleasure of the GD fucking football team and being in band = being in marching band. I'm not a fan of marching band, I detest football and don't really want my kid to associate in any way with that brain-killing brutality that claims to be a sport. She's upset, because mandatory. I'm pissed because how the fuck do they put something mandatory the week before school starts and not tell you at registation? (*) But here's the worse part: we're supposed to be on vacation that week. Our plans (only vaguely set from a reservation standpoint, but well set from an internal planning on what we scheduled when for the rest of the summer) start with a trip to Bend on Aug 21 for the eclipse, and then move southward from there. Because of the eclipse whose timing or location I cannot change, :-), we are rather stuck going on vacation from the 21st to the 31st. (*) We only found out because the high school band booster club came to the Middle School for the last concert, and handed out information on the "music camp".

-- Again, I despise marching band. And football.

-- 30 people for a bbq on Sunday. I think I'm planning too much food. Alas, suspecting that we're going to be eating leftovers for the rest of the summer will not stop me from making too much food.

-- Tomorrow will be the 12 anniversary of my dad's death. I don't want to talk about it.

-- James Comey is a fuck up and I hope he rots in hell. He fucking did everything he could to get Trump elected, and pretends to be all high-minded about that, and then acts OMG shocked that Trump is a pos scumbucket. That said, despite him being an unethical hack, I don't think he's a liar. He wins the credibility contest. The hearings were interesting yesterday. Of course nothing will come of it because no matter what Trump did/does the Republicans don't care, they've got all the power. It's all just an academic exercise. That said, I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that we have no legal or constitutional recourse for a crooked election.

-- Britain. Yowsa on May and her electoral fuck up. I wish we had a parliamentary system.

-- This tweet is just too cute. Alas, I can't figure out how to properly embed tweets on dreamwidth, so I'm just posting a photo.

-- Posting this now, may add to it later.

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What's the Britney Spears song?

Wed, 24 May 2017 17:56:45 GMT

Oooops, I did it again! :P Nothing serious, just continuing with the tradition of hosting a big to-do at the end of the crew season.

Recently, after YEARS of covetting one, dh bought a smoker. And he's been itching for an opportunity to feed people lots of meat.

So we're doing a BBQ. No idea how many people, but lots.

Current menu is pulled pork, ribs, grilled chicken sausages, vegetarian baked beans, and mac and cheese.

I'm hoping people will volunteer to bring various salads and desserts, but just in case, I will have Perry make a few things for dessert.

Should be fun.

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Stumbling Through Adulthood

Regatta this morning....

Another catchall post.

What's the Britney Spears song?