Yes please! Feel free to send me chairs in every color chair-fairy.
(Image: House to Home)
Candy Colored Chairs
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Emily Bayless Project #78-Tortillas de Maiz aka THE END!
I have a list of things I want to do. One of them is to cook every recipe in a cookbook so I’m working my way through Rick Bayless’ Everyday Mexican. I’ve eaten a lot of good stuff. This series is the record of those adventures.
I’m working on a re-cap of the whole project, but until then enjoy pictorial tortilla tutorial!
Thanks to my friend Rachel for taking all the pics for the post.
F.U. is for Fun
2010 was a rough year and I was glad to bid it and its tough life lessons goodbye. When the clock struck midnight on January 1 2011. I was so worn down from trying to get my head around the past year all that I decided on one very simple resolution “Have more fun.” Seriously. That’s it.
Most people would excel at this, but I’m assuming most people also don’t prefer to spend the night alone with a DVD and their label maker. It’s not that I’m not “fun”, I think that in general I am a very fun person, it’s just that I have trouble storing responsibilities for later. My mind is constantly thinking of what I need to do next, the dishes, the laundry, the (insert boring here). I can’t blame this on parenthood either, I’ve always been like this. For 2011 I didn’t want to think of all the to-do, I wanted to stop and have some fun. I wanted to take a vacation day and spend it in bed reading ( I did this once a month). I wanted to lie down at the park and watch the clouds roll by with my little guy. I wanted to stop thinking about all the obligations and just chill out for a sec.
Guess, what? I totally rocked my resolution. A plus for me! Yesterday Arnold wanted to go to the city for the day to “eat and have fun”. Honestly I didn’t want to go. I thought about the cost, the gas, the bridge toll, the expensive city food etc. I thought about how I need to go back to work today and there was laundry, stuff to clean etc. etc and if I don’t do it I’ll fall behind. And then I thought screw it, let’s not leave behind the lessons of 2011 so quickly. So we hopped in the car and drove to the city. We ate good. We wandered aimlessly. We walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. We hugged our son and reveled in his amazing emerging personality. We sang along at the top of our lungs. We had F.U.N!
Starting the Year Right
List Love Book Club: The Golden Years
Each Week Elleinadspir, A Place to Share and I will be working our way through the Listography 2011 Book with a rotating Link Part-tay! To find the list of the years topics, check out the Listography Link above.
Today’s Topic: List how you would like to spend time when you’re a senior citizen
Yay! This is not just a great topic, it’s also the subject of many random daydreams.
- Visiting my kick-ass son who is a Top Chef and has at least one even more kick-ass child
- Traveling everywhere
- Driving a mini-cooper. A bumble bee yellow one. All electric hopefully.
- Living in a loft apartment (I mean obviously, your knees go as you get older, no more stairs!)
- Patronizing the arts (in my daydreams I am not just retired, I am also wealthy)
- Dancing tango
- Cooking through my 30th-something cookbook project
- Enjoying the memories of having completed large chunks of stuff on my list and dreaming up new ones!
- Sleeping in everyday
- Doing things that make young people say “I hope when I’m your age…”
Am I the only one who fantasizes about retirement? I do my best to enjoy each moment and stage in life but living as chronic-overplanner-ahead is in my nature. I’m the only one left with the link so feel free to hitch yourself to this wagon.
PS-This is the last week of the LIst Love Book Club but (obviously) not that last list because I’m working on some New Years resolutions!
The best gift
The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we’ve been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.-Fred Rogers
