Day 30: The End

Wow. Another year of NaBloPoMo has come to an end. I wish I could write something really profound here, but, you’ve read my blog so you know I don’t do profound.

Now we can go back to ignoring each other until next year.

Day 29: Decorating for Christmas

I know it isn’t December first, but we had Lauren today and she likes helping put the tree up.

It felt so weird to be decorating for Christmas since it was so warm

As you can see, at least one section of the pre-lit tree has lights that are burnt out. Awesome.

And we got some new wreaths.

I have photos of them, but they don’t want to upload. Use your imagination

 

 

Day 28: Black Friday

I was safe at work. But we were slow, so I was mostly bored.

I found a cool website- Black Friday Death Count. It was a pretty slow year compared to years past. No one died.

I sound way too disappointed about that, don’t I?

Anyways, I count myself fortunate that I have people that I can knit for and who appreciate it. Especially when I already have the yarn and pattern.

Day 27: Happy Thanksgiving!

Believe it or not, despite my struggles and whining, I am thankful for everyone and everything that I have.

I hope you guys all have a great day. I’d say try not to eat too much, but we all know how funny that is.

Whether your day is bird-centric, vegetarian or vegan, I hope the food is good and you don’t have to deal with too many jerks.

Day 26: More Stats

So this will post as the 27th because apparently WordPress is six hours ahead of me. But it’s the 26th where I am so I haven’t missed a NaNoBloPo post, for those of you keeping track.

I have passed 100 followers on this blog. I have passed 100 followers on one of my stories. That means more than 100 individual people on each site are reading something I wrote. And are evidently entertained enough that they keep coming back for more.

That puts a lot of god damn pressure on me.

Day 25: Sherlock Holmes vol. I

Clocking in at 1059 pages, this was the biggest read of the year. Sorry, Murakami. It was my first time reading Sherlock Holmes. Oh sure, I’d seen a couple episodes and movies, but I never actually read the stories.

I learned that Sherlock Holmes did cocaine. They kind of gloss over that in the earlier films- especially the ones geared towards kids. I learned Dr. Watson got married.

The stories were good. Sometimes there was justice, sometimes there wasn’t. Sometimes everything was tied up in a neat little bow, other times everything was up in the air.

I liked it. Definitely worth the read, but I’m going to wait before tackling volume II.

Day 24: Autumn Bucket List #14: Bake a Batch of Pumpkin Muffins

I used this recipe and whipped up a dozen and a half last night

The recipe doesn’t call for butterscotch chips, but I throw in half a cup anyway. Maybe next time a whole cup. It’s been a while since I’ve made these

Sprinkle cinnamon on top right after pulling them out of the oven

I think I went overboard with the cinnamon.

Can you go overboard with cinnamon?

I guess you can

Day 23: Sunday Confessions: Tea

1) My favorite tea of all time is Earl Grey. Specifically the organic Lavender Earl Grey from the London Tea Room

2) I do not like Chai tea. It’s too spicy

3) I love drinking jasmine tea after eating way too much food. It settles my stomach. You all will know what I’m doing after Thanksgiving

4) When reading classic literature, pair it with a black tea

5) I average about three or four cups a day

6) I collect tea tins. Not boxes- those get folded up and recycled- tins

7) I don’t always get to have little cakes with my tea, unless it’s something to do with the Royal Family. Usually those are in the form of Zebra Cakes or Swiss Rolls from Kara

8) One of my favorite lines from a book is from Dr. Zhivago. A train had stopped in the middle of the tracks, and a character whose name escapes me said, “Something must have happened. Let’s go have tea.” He just blows off the whole situation to go have tea. That’s my motto for life

9) I have two cast-iron tea pots, and one standard black kettle

Day 22: Autumn Bucket List #2: Watch 10 Scary Movies

1) Let’s Scare Jessica to Death

2 & 3) Cat People and its sequel (which sucked) Return of the Cat People

4) Freaks

5) The Rite

6) The Wolfman

7) Trick ‘r Treat

And then some movies that I watched on TV and didn’t take a photo of because I didn’t think to take a photo of the TV

8) Halloween

9) Halloween II

10) IT

Day 21: Friday Stats

I was all set to write another Five for Friday post when I realized that I was just too lazy. So I decided that I was just going to post a goofy Friday meme and have done with it. However just about every meme I could find about Friday was disgusting and offensive and seriously what the hell is wrong with people? This is why we can’t have nice things.

Instead I’m going to give you an update on my blog stats.

I’ve written over 275 blog posts, and I have 97 followers. 97 individual people who seem to like the meaningless dribble I spout out. It says right on my header that I’m going to bore you. But, maybe with all the serious stuff that’s happening all over the place people like to come here for stupid fluff that can distract them. Yeah, that’s it.

You’re welcome.