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Living life one dream at a time.

Words of the Wise

"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-Christopher Fry, The Lady's not for Burning

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-Erica Jong

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandella, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Until this moment I had believed forgiveness to be a special virtue, a beneficence God expected of good people. But it wasn't that at all. Forgiveness was an instinct, a desperate impulse to stay connected to the people you needed, no matter what their betrayals."
-Monica Wood, My Only Story

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear."
-Stephen King

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Kindly Ones

"Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine which, being balanced people, they cannot supply."
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"You know, when you crawl that far down into the abyss, you really shouldn't bring stuff back up with you. Some things are meant to live in the dark. Your blog is like one of those fish with no eyes. Only slightly more disturbing."
Monday, December 1, 2008

Cookie Day!

8:40 PM | Posted by Christine | Edit Post
Below is the text of an e-mail I sent to this year's cookie day victims participants. I think it says it all, really...

I just wanted to drop everyone an e-mail and firm up a few details on cookie day. As usual, I'm pretty excited. I can't wait to see all of you!

  • I have sixty two pounds of dough ready to go. There are ten kinds this year -

  • Sugar cookies
  • Spritz
  • Gingerbread men
  • Snickerdoodles
  • Chocolate cinnamon
  • Thumbprints
  • Peanut butter kisses
  • Oatmeal almond blueberry
  • Rum balls
  • Chocolate-chocolate chip
  • I'm taking a vacation day on Friday, and should have a good head start before everyone arrives on Saturday. I plan to have the majority of the sugar cookies and gingerbread men cut and baked Friday. This should lead to an easier process on Saturday, with just the decorating left to be done.
  • Wear sensible shoes. The floor in my kitchen is porcelain tile, and can be hard on your back if you're standing for too long in your socks or shoes that don't have much cushion. Ask Angela. She still has a limp from last year.
  • If you'd like to bring any Christmas music, feel free. We just started listening to mine yesterday as we put up the Christmas tree, and A is already sick of it. He wanted to put on the Frank Sinatra Christmas album. I drew the line. A 'friendly' discussion ensued. (We all love Frank. But have you heard his Christmas album?)
  • I'm making meatball subs for lunch, and they'll be hanging out in the crock pot whenever you get hungry. If you wish to bring anything snacky to accompany them, go ahead. Don't feel obligated, though. It's not as if anyone could possibly starve to death in a room with that many cookies.
  • I'm anticipating 5-7 adults, and 4-5 kids. This means that we'll have plenty of people, and everyone should be able to take breaks as needed. Odds are I won't work you to death this year. Unless that's what you're looking for. Then bring it on.
  • I'll be in the kitchen and working by about 8:00 AM. I fully intend to be finished by 4:00 PM. Feel free to arrive and depart whenever it's convenient for you. The front door will be unlocked, so let yourself in. I may not hear the doorbell over the Frank Sinatra Christmas Album.
  • I have several tins that someone from work threw my way. They aren't the cutest things in the world, but they will do. I also bought a bunch of really cute boxes. You can feel free to just take the tins with you if you'd like, but I would ask that if you want the boxes, you buy them. I still can't believe I couldn't find cute holiday boxes for less than $3-$4 each, but I suppose that expensive crap is the spirit of the season these days.
  • My neighbor is having a surprise birthday party for her husband that same day. I'm hoping parking won't be an issue, but you may have to park down the street a bit. Unfortunately, unlike my aunt Bernie, I can't fit twelve cars in my driveway (inside joke. Sorry.) Just don't block the mailbox, or the mailman will come and personally kick my butt.

If you have any other questions, let me know. Otherwise, I'll plan to see you on Saturday!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just can't believe that you're not all about the Charlie Brown Christmas album. I can understand the love of the Bing, but none for Guaraldi?

I believe that you may be some cookie-making robot and not in fact human.

December 2, 2008 at 7:35 AM
Whirledpeas said...

*yay* cookie day is approaching!

December 2, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Also, "fitting 12 cars in your driveway" sounds like a dirty euphemism.

December 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Anonymous said...

Cookie Day was a thing of beauty, and therefore a joy forever.

Although you'll probably be haunted in your dreams by the Charlie Brown choir...

December 7, 2008 at 7:45 AM
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