Our cats have discovered if they knock enough stuff down in the bathroom it will force us to get out of bed and entertain them because it will wake Marceline up.
They are either very stupid or geniuses.
Category: Daily Life
These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Backyarding
Marceline and I were walking around the backyard trying the hand-me-down baby backpack (is that the term for it.. I don’t know).
Anyways, Marceline didn’t hate it. I’m not sure she loved it either. I took this picture to send to my family and my older sister added the fantastic word balloon.
Today’s Drawing
Kerosene is one of my favorite Bad Religion songs. Woke up with it in my head this morning… So today’s drawing reflects that.
Met some kids at the park…
Marceline and I went for a walk in the park today.
Two children biked past us, a little girl with training wheels and a boy without, but not totally in control on two wheels.
The girl zipped on by, but the boy actually got off his bike to share the path with us. Super awesome.
Their father was walking just behind them and super happy to hear how polite the boy was.
Marceline and I continued our way and they theirs.
About a half mile down the path I hear “Passing on the left!” The little boy zipped past and immediately ran his bike into the grass. He ran over to us tell us that was on purpose and asked some questions about Marceline.
A minute later the father and sister came around the corner and we all had a brief polite conversation.
It would have nice, but kind of unmemorable interaction except for one random comment the father slipped in…
“I’m glad you’re not a child molester or kidnapper or anything.”
Me too dude, me too.
Cooking
As I am staying home, I set some small goals for myself. Read more. Exercise. Try to write letters regularly. Draw more. Blog more. And try new recipes.
A lot of those goals are easy in that it is simply a “more”. I wasn’t reading a ton of books a year. One or two a month is ‘more’. Same for exercise, drawing, blogging.
But with new recipes, I set myself a goal of something new every week.
To help I started looking for new cookbooks or sites to find interesting, easy recipes. I found Budget Bytes a fun site to scroll through. And I found Leanne Brown’s cookbooks. Which are awesome.
Leanne Brown has some free pdf’s of her cookbooks on her webpage. I particularly like Good and Cheap. This week I made Mexican Corn and Peanut Butter and Jelly Granola Bars. Both came out fantastic (particularly the granola bars). Last week I made her Corn Soup. Also fantastic. What I like about her recipes is that they are flexible. Easy to improve on or change to fit tastes.
I’ll eventually post pictures of my food here. But for now have a book cover.
Floppy Sock
Marceline often has the dreaded ‘floppy sock.’
It always reminds me of my high school friend Shane. I have this memory of Shane and I walking into my house during daycare hours to see a toddler in mudroom with floppy sock.
Shane looked at the kid and said something along the lines of “You have floppy sock, huh. I hate floppy sock.”
The kid stared at Shane, and without saying a word used his toes to scrunch up his sock so it didn’t dangle anymore, and then turn and run off.
Shane and I went on with our day without another thought.
It may be a random memory of no consequence, but along with Marceline’sc enduring cuteness it makes me smile every time I see her with a floppy sock.