BA HA HA HA HA, TODDY!!it gets me every time.
i spy with my little i
yesterday morning we saw a giant hawk sitting on top of a cable antenna and i thought to myself, see, this is why it's good to look up and down and all around when you're walking places. you catch all the good stuff!
sometimes eye level just doesn't cut the mustard.
a tale.
jeremy is making black bean stir-fry and watching battlestar galactica and i am writing to you and sewing a christmas gift. i can hear the water in the sink and jeremy turning on the oven. i think he just poured something.
last night we decorated my little plastic tree and i made about three courses of nibbly items. before that a jazz show over beers and food in baskets. before that a cup of coffee. before that it's saturday morning and i'm in bed thinking i love the weekend.
and i love how red wine tastes as the weather gets colder. full of warmth and deliciousness just like sunday evenings.
last night we decorated my little plastic tree and i made about three courses of nibbly items. before that a jazz show over beers and food in baskets. before that a cup of coffee. before that it's saturday morning and i'm in bed thinking i love the weekend.
and i love how red wine tastes as the weather gets colder. full of warmth and deliciousness just like sunday evenings.
mmmmmuffins
who is wild about muffins? I AM!i got this book for fifty cents from the used place that's such a steal and i already made the apple carrot ones and they're pretty tasty!
we eat them on our big walk to the subway in the mornings and i wave mine around shouting that i made it. you should make some too! i'll even give you the recipe.
xo
it happened again
yesterday i bought jeremy a christmas gift in the hopes that i would make it home before he would and find a drawer and put it there and wait until just before christmas to take it out and wrap it up and put it under the tree.i got on the subway and i looked for a spot but the spot i found was crowded so i looked for another then someone poked my arm and so i looked and it was jeremy.
right beside me on the train.
i believe in love and i believe in fate and i believe that jeremy and i are forever linked by both. i also believe that he did not snoop at my left hand side as i held his present close the whole way home.
oh hey december! what's up?
there aren't normally flowers in december are there?
it's raining out now which is odd for this time of year. i wonder if tomorrow will be an ice rink outside and everyone will take the day off work to skate around to the charlie brown christmas music. 
there's some new things around here to report on - this baby for one. we actually already love her after only a three hour visit. some sales pitch!she tooted the whole time i held her and it made me love her more.
just like what jeremy says about me. xx
look at her she's amazing.
also this picture is new! it's our honeymoon crown and it's signed by the artists and we're very proud of our first work of art.
it reminds me of our honeymoon. which is a lovely thing to be remindered of.woah, now they are definately in love.
his hands are hooked right into her perm - you just can't fake that kind of emotion.
nice to meet you, madelyn!
robynn had her baby today! we're aunt and uncle to a little girl!woah, brand new babies just blow my mind with their brand newness like she's only 7 hours old right now. she doesn't even know about morning time. or what her home looks like. or that there's a cute row of dresses in the closet there waiting for her to wear them.
welcome little sweetie! when you're old enough we'll keep you home from school one day and jer will make you those giant pancakes like the ones from uncle buck.
a thousand words paints a picture
that bread song was my favourite when i was 5. the song that says if a picture paints a thousand words then why can't i paint you? yeah i loved that one.
my mom sang it to me and i used to imagine scenes for all the dramatic lyrics like the part in the end when they talk about the stars going out in the sky one by one i'd imagine the world ending and floating out in space really peacefully holding hands.
i made this picture using 1000 words and then erasered out space to look like my aforementioned imaginings.
just in time for the christmas shopping season, it goes on sale to the public next week.
PRESENTING......
our very small tree!
we got it from the grocery store. it was hanging out in the christmas plant section with the amaryllises and those blooming cacti and when i saw it i thought YOU belong with us.
here's some fun facts about our new bud:
1. it's a goldcrest which is a conifer, a family of evergreen trees who've been around for more than three hundred million years. that is so old i don't even think birthday cards go up that high.
2. in summer it's lemon scented.
3. one website said that goldcrests are 'very good for streets, avenues and parks', how versatile! comforting to know it will be equally at home among our city friends and country friends.
4. it grows to the room it's given so as long as you care for it and water it regularly and feed it with plant food once a month (or diluted with the water daily) - it can become as big as 5 metres tall!
we're going to grow it as big as we can indoors and then plant it in the woods in ten years time when it's too big for us to look after and we'll exchange a tearful but happy goodbye because this was the day we'd all dreamed of from the start.
welcome beauty! make yourself at home. there's some cold pc diet cola in the fridge.
bacon is a treat for friday morning
jeremy just the other day asked me where i got my shirt from and i said 'steph' and he said 'i shouldn't even bother to ask' and we had a little laugh because i am basically a goodwill of steph hand me downs. even in our living room i can spy three things that once belonged to gherkin.
she's coming to town for sarah's wedding this weekend and i get to see her tomorrow morning for breakfast! work's letting me come in late! HURRAY!
i'm getting scrambled eggs and a barista beverage in a giant cup with a saucer.
potato hash with egg disaster
we were making this delicious dinner and jeremy asked me to look up why you add vinegar to the water when making a poached egg and this is what google told me:vinegar should be added to the water as it begins to boil, as this will help the egg white to coagulate more quickly and form a neat and compact shape. without the vinegar, disaster may occur.
oh noo-ooo!! disaster!! i always knew eggs had a dangerous side.
mmmm, dangerous and delicious.
all the news that is the news
time flies when you're busy inventing new alcoholic beverages! it's november and i feel like that should mean snow but it doesn't and there's still yellow leaves on the tree out the window.
and we're still talking about the wedding.
and anyways we get to use the snack plate more.
i made this pouch for jeremy's ipod from old scraps of material, some from the wedding, some from halloween. it's a tree and there's a little heart carved in the bark and there's love in all the stitching.
jeremy sent me flowers to work last week. yellow ones. happy ones.
and we're still talking about the wedding.
we started to read articles on factory farmed meat and got scared into being vegetarians. we still do eat meat occasionally and when we do, we get it from the market or the healthy butcher - places that can tell you about the farm the meat came from. places that know the farmers name.
there are so many tasty vegetarian dishes we really feel opened up to a new world, rather than shut off from an old one.
and anyways we get to use the snack plate more.
i made this pouch for jeremy's ipod from old scraps of material, some from the wedding, some from halloween. it's a tree and there's a little heart carved in the bark and there's love in all the stitching.
jeremy sent me flowers to work last week. yellow ones. happy ones.so many people stopped by my desk to ask what the occasion was and i answered 'no occasion' and turned a shade of pink and loved jeremy so much my heart became visible through my shirt like et's all those times he gets excited.
every year (starting last or the one before) we've been on the hunt for the perfect hot alcoholic beverage. last year we found the hot toddy and stopped there to enjoy those for a spell and now we're on the hunt again. royal cider grog sounds funny and tastes delicious. i added cloves into the pot the second time we made them - even better!
i brought them home for the weekend so they could retire peacefully.
every year (starting last or the one before) we've been on the hunt for the perfect hot alcoholic beverage. last year we found the hot toddy and stopped there to enjoy those for a spell and now we're on the hunt again. royal cider grog sounds funny and tastes delicious. i added cloves into the pot the second time we made them - even better!tastes like christmas.
mmmmm christmas.
boney m i love your coloured pantaloons
someplace no one can find us
i made jer watch 'up' the other day and he loved it and all human beans love this movie so if you do not love this movie you are most likely not human.
we took a picture of this scene because we want one of these things in our kids room if we ever have one or in our room starting next week.
we usually make forts with couch cushions and chairs but this one is so much more convenient! just a rope and a quilt and a story worthy of a flashlight under the chin.
arranging the bacon
i think we're gearing up to make an omelette coffee table book.
proceeds of the sale of our book will go towards the purchase of more eggs to make more omelettes.
good cause!
a post without any pictures
yesterday the subway was closed between eglinton and bloor meaning hundreds of thousands of commuters stood on the street corner waiting for a shuttle bus.
also meaning jeremy and i took a really long walk
i hate being on transit when there’s any sort of delay because of the overwhelming feeling of helplessness. i hate waiting for the car to go. i hate sitting so close to someone that you’re each thrust unwillingly into each others space/sounds/worlds.
and i love how walking is the opposite of those things.
you can stroll, you can stop, you can get a peppermint mocha frappucino. you can hold hands, you can swing your arms, you can pass right on through the crowds. you can kick the leaves, you can yell out loud, you can kiss jeremy on the street corner. the light can change three times.
it took us nearly two hours to get home but we’d spent every minute of that doing just what we wanted to do. sometimes those things that hold us up can be the perfect reason to slow right down.
and sometimes there’s a drink in it for you with whip cream on top.
x
also meaning jeremy and i took a really long walk
i hate being on transit when there’s any sort of delay because of the overwhelming feeling of helplessness. i hate waiting for the car to go. i hate sitting so close to someone that you’re each thrust unwillingly into each others space/sounds/worlds.
and i love how walking is the opposite of those things.
you can stroll, you can stop, you can get a peppermint mocha frappucino. you can hold hands, you can swing your arms, you can pass right on through the crowds. you can kick the leaves, you can yell out loud, you can kiss jeremy on the street corner. the light can change three times.
it took us nearly two hours to get home but we’d spent every minute of that doing just what we wanted to do. sometimes those things that hold us up can be the perfect reason to slow right down.
and sometimes there’s a drink in it for you with whip cream on top.
x
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