my boys are gone for the long week-end, ice fishing in minnesota. i suspect they do actually fish part of the time - when they're not busy with all the electronics they haul along. but never mind. i am home alone!!! alone in my own house! what a wonderful thing that is:)
what am i doing? well. first i took a chunk of time to ponder all the things i possibly could do. this was followed by a time of deep meditation otherwise called napping, just because i could.
next, i turned on all the lights in my studio as a precursor to actually working in there. the plan: to purge and organize. however, i then recalled that i had bought some storage containers at target last week and that they were still in the back of my suv.
on my way to the garage, i took a phone call from my sister. as i talked, i sat down in front of the computer and noticed that my brother had sent photos of himself and his new wife, married just last night! yay! so my sister and i discussed this and other things in some detail. when i hung up the phone, i then had to call my other sister and review things with her. then i emailed my brother and new sil.
all of the above consumed most of the morning and part of the early afternoon.
so. in reality, i haven't done anything that i planned. i've done quite a lot of nothing, and a tiny bit of something. in the late afternoon, i was seized with nostalgia (along with a chocolate craving) and went to the cupboard to find my vintage betty crocker kids' cookbook.
i proceeded to make the brownies; but now that they're baked i don't feel like frosting them. and i don't usually eat brownies without frosting. can you say "exercise in futility"?!?
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wasted spent a while paging through the cookbook, recalling how entranced i was with this photo, as a child. pure magic, i tell you. no - i never made it. not then and not today.
i chuckled out loud when i turned the page and found this brilliant piece of baking advice, written in my 9 year-old scrawl! oh, for the days when the trickiest thing i had to figure out was how to double a batch of chocolate chip cookies...
so now. it's early evening and i have successfully returned to my studio. so far, i have taken 'before' pictures so that i can celebrate my progress (at some future, unspecified date).
posting these photos...
has reminded me...
that i desperately want to learn how to edit photos...
which led me back to my computer...
where i am now sitting.
maybe i'll frost the brownies now.
