blast from the past :)

One of my high school friends got back in touch with me about a month ago after a decade-long absence (I swear, I don’t know how people lose me: if you type “catie murphy” into Google, you get me). A few days ago she emailed me a photo of us from eaaarllly in college, probably 1990 or maybe 1991 (I don’t think my hair’s long enough for it to be 91, really), so I went and got my buttons of that photo, plus the other one I had, and scanned…

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:p

Well, that was vexing. I thought, “I know, I’ll roast up a lot of potatoes and carrots with the chicken, and then tomorrow I can just make pot pie with the leftovers!” So I peeled a bunch of carrots and potatoes and threw them all into my big glass pan with the chicken. And the big glass pan doesn’t fit in the wretched tiny Irish oven. *grrr* So I had to take the remainder of the cake out of the 9×13 pan and wash it and put the chicken et…

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the road to hell…

My intention to go into town today was thwarted by getting up and discovering a heavy fog was upon us. I’d been waiting for a heavy fog to go down to the old graveyard and do a photo shoot, so that’s what I did. And by the time I was done, my feet and shoes were completely soaked, so I ended up coming home, putting my shoes in the dryer, and wrapping Christmas presents. I have a bunch more to wrap. It seems like there was some period of time…

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