updates

i have the week off. i am unsure what to do with myself when not working. i do a lot of wandering and judging of my house. it does not meet, much less exceed expectations.
you can judge it yourself when the first issue of high gloss comes out in a few weeks, because the meares compound will be on display.

we had 8 inches of snow.

this was an unfortunate happening:

rowdy's feet collected snowballs that wouldn't come off. we had to submerge in bathtub. poor puppy

in gifting news, i am overly pleased with these new bits i received:

this

and these

i gave a lot of this

i made brownies w/ peppermint sprinkles. i enjoyed crushing up the peppermint b/c i was mad at the post office and was able to channel my hatred into the pounding with a green bean can.