September 5, 2012
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Two-Ingredient Day
When I dropped Theo off at pre-school this morning, his teacher had out a pan of bubbly water and a can of shaving cream.
This prompted three thoughts:
1) I’m really good at teaching college kids.
2) He’s clearly going to have a really good day.
3) It’s kind of amazing that two simple ingredients can make for a really good day.What two simple ingredients would make your day a really good day?
Don’t get all metaphorical on me. Or all sentimental and relationship-y. Seriously. Among things that can be placed on a table in a room, what two things would you want on the table in a room you’d be spending a good chunk of the day in?
I’m pretty sure my two things would be a skein of new yarn and a glass of Grand Marnier. Or maybe a good cup of tea and a new Jasper Fforde novel.
Of course, tickets to a U2 concert and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot would also work.
But I can’t seem to get those down at the neighborhood strip mall.
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A homecooked meal that I didn’t make and a DVD of a movie that I’ve never seen but always wanted to. Of course, that’d be at the end of the day.
At the beginning of the day – hmmm, that’s harder. How about a box of dougnuts just for the teachers and a surprise guest speaker for the whole afternoon.
Oh no! Now I’ve got it! The early morning phone call saying school is cancelled and, well you can pair that with anything – cocoa, a House marathon on USA, brownies, a box from Amazon in the mail,it’s all good.
it’s just now apple season, and I adore fresh new england apples- so I’m going to say a bowl of shiny apples and a skein of new yarn. hand-dyed, with the joy of seeing how it will pattern as I knit it. Fortunately, I’ll get to eat fresh apples and knit a little today- hooray!!
This week I’d love some uninterrupted time with my bed and my pillow. Why can’t moms be sick again? Ugh.
On a normal week I think I’d opt for a huge coke from Sonic and The Hunger Games DVD. Davis was born on the release date and even though I bought the blasted thing I still haven’t had time to watch it. Next summer, I suppose.
So I went to look at Jasper Fforde novels to download on audible.com- turns out he has written a novel called “Shades of Grey”- which I saw and thought, “Is Sarah possibly into that kind of novel??” Turns out his is a different novel by a similar name (not the erotica one that is all over the news right now). Phew.
Yes, very different!! I “follow” him on Instagram, and one recent pic he posted was of fifty copies of his novel. “There! Fifty Shades of Grey!”
My big disappointment at the big American Library Association annual conference this summer was that I failed to snag an ARC of Fforde’s new YA novel, The Last Dragonslayer – the only ARC in the whole exhibit hall that I actually wanted! It’s coming out in the US on October 2, which is the same release date as the newest Thursday Next novel! W00t! (Both are already available in the UK — WHY oh why must I keep falling in love with British pop culture properties that are released here MONTHS after they’re available to the Queen’s subjects? — but I have been disciplined and not rushed off to amazon.co.uk. Yet.)