Entries from January 2007

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Random Friday–One by One but No Better

It’s been some time since I’ve put up a set for Friday Random Ten, but I feel a little tug to do so today. For those of you who haven’t seen it before, the rules are simple. Just set your iPod or other digital music player a’shufflin’ and report back the first ten [...]

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Yet another cold

I dropped Ingrid off at the airport at 6:15 am this morning, came home and crawled back into bed.  Last night, I had a tickle in the back of my throat, and by the time the alarm rang to wake her at 5:15 am it had bloomed into the beginnings of a nice little cold.  [...]

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Happy Birthday Father O’ Mine

Each year, as my mom and I shop for Christmas gifts for my dad, we carefully ration the gifts, giving him only half of the booty on December 25th. The reserved portion is wrapped in non-holiday paper and put out for his birthday a short eight days later. Most years I head back [...]

Monday, January 1st, 2007

Friends from afar (Happy New Year)

I got back into Philadelphia early Friday morning. After a day of unpacking, buying groceries and reorienting to east coast time, I picked Ingrid up at the airport. She had some airport drama but thankfully the travel gods knew that it was important for her to get here and so delivered her safe [...]