There but for the grace of god go I

I suspect this guy's inner monologue right now is something like this:
"It seemed like a good idea at the time."
"I didn't quite think it through."
"I just sort of snapped."

But I have to admit that I can really sympathize with the impulse.

I Gotta Dance!!!

While showering this morning for some reason, I recalled that a few nights ago I was curled up behind Paul in bed. He moved, forcing me to move and thus wake up a bit out of a dream (apparently).

I remember declaring the following naturally, like it was exactly the thing to say at that moment: "I've got my dancing shoes on!"

I don't know what's going on in my noodle that such an otherwise forgotten event would spring forth days later in the shower, but I laughed my ass off.

"fra-gee-lay"

I think the cake we made for a party this last weekend might be my favorite yet:


That's right, we made a cake of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story, complete with small lights underneath the shade so that it actually looked like it was on.











Another view:


















The whole cake (which fed 225) and at least 12 dozen cookies during a week where our basement got progressively more torn up because of water problems.... We're feeling pretty darn good about the business these days!
Now if we could only get someone to come in and do our dishes.

It's been a wet one

This last week's storm, which began with some pleasant snow fall on Saturday, turned quite unpleasant for almost everyone in the region. The excess water in our basement and garage simply pale in comparison.

Seattle Times










What you're seeing above is a freeway overpass for Interstate 5, the primary artery for traffic and commerce linking California, Oregon, Washington, and western Canada; for those of you on the East coast, this is roughly the equivalent of I-95. I-5 is completely submerged. The large, flat, grey and white building in the upper right of the image is a Walmart.

Seattle Times










This shows the flooded town of Centralia and another view of the I-5 corridor under water. It's clear there's just nowhere for all that water to go.

I can't stand the rain.

Our basement is flooding.
I went downstairs to get some cookie dough, and my big toe went splush in the carpet.

"no no no no no no no", said I.

Today's lesson: as I was schlepping stuff out to the trash/yard waste containers (through our partially flooded garage, mind you), I realized that just because "Nothing worth having is easy," that doesn't mean that everything difficult is worth having.

Out.