Frog and Goat

Do you ever find yourself in a position where you don’t want to be the big old skeptic but you really can’t help yourself? I find myself in that position a lot. Do you think you get skeptic lines on your face like worry lines around the eyes or smile lines around the mouth? Maybe that’s what those little lines on my forehead are–skeptic lines.

I have been known to kick the donkey (trying to keep the site a little cleaner than usual) when it comes to making Help helpful (software help that is). I am trying to figure out the clunky HTML Help Workshop. To demonstrate how hard I’m finding this–I can NOT keep HTML Help Workshop in my head. How terrible is that? I’m trying to figure out how to use it and I can’t even remember the name. Lame, I tell you, Lame.

Hopefully not so lame, and completely off topic, I’m going to attempt to create some scooby snacks for my dog friends. I’m thinking it can’t be that hard to make something a dog will eat since they will eat out of a litter box given the chance. My only issue is that I do not have a bone shaped cookie cutter. I figure the dogs don’t really know or care what shape their scooby snack is so I’ll be using some other shape.

We decorated the house yesterday and I thought I’d share a picture of one of our favorite items. This item was rescued from near disaster. When the better-half’s grandparents died and the family was cleaning up the house, we came across the item and it had been defiled. Defiled in the manner of having the power cord cut and then attached to a wreath (the item not the cord). When the better-half was little, the item was fully functioning and lighting the way to happy festive times.

We have restored the item and hang it in our kitchen every season. It is hung next to the liquor cabinet. We like to say the drinking light is on…tis the season.

Wouldn’t it be great if the $750,000 recovered with Saddam could go to the team who found him?

We got our Christmas tree today and it is sitting in a bucket of water in the garage. The garage smells like a whole forest of pine. If it weren’t so cold in the garage, I think I’d spend the evening down there.

We put our lights in the window just a little bit ago and the house at least is starting to look seasonal. Now we just need to find some Christmas spirit.

Speaking of Christmas spirits, the people we went to see the show with the other night were going to make their bracing egg nog this weekend. Their nog is strong and forthright. The year we made nog it stripped the paint off the walls. We need to lift their recipe or visit more often during the holiday season.

I’m not sure if we’re going to bake anything this year–we may make some Stollen. My mother usually cranks the Stollen out this time of year and it isn’t that strange looking stuff you see in tins at the store. Her Stollen is more bread-like than fruitcake-esque. And it Rocks.