Category: Reminiscing

Completely unrelated

Posted by Carrie on 14 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Items of Interest, Reminiscing

Apparently, it’s National Delurker Day.

So, come out, come out, wherever you are. I’ll even give you a question to answer in a comment, to make it easier! Just something that’s been brewing in my head since I posted a group picture from my high school graduation, and a friend commented how we “thought [...]

Jiggety frigging jig

Posted by Carrie on 03 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Familial things, Reminiscing

Ugh and oof. I really do prefer to come home from a vacation/trip to an at least somewhat tidy house, and there is nothing quite like returning home to a house that was apparently bombed with Christmas and then hastily abandoned for a couple of weeks. I sort of want to cover my [...]

Traditions

Posted by Carrie on 17 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Reminiscing

Not a lot of time tonight; I’m getting ready to head to a small gathering with my discussion group from MOPS. For some reason, I volunteered to bring an appetizer instead of wine or a dessert; I’m not an appetizer cook, but thankfully Eric was able to save my tail and whip up some [...]

Wiped

Posted by Carrie on 13 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Reminiscing

I used to be such a night owl. Now it’s not even nine o’clock, and I’ve been watching episodes of Doctor Who with Eric on the computer, drinking a couple of glasses of Rioja, and I feel absolutely done in. Last night, the family got in from shopping around 6:45, and I packed [...]

Of goat meat

Posted by Carrie on 11 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Reminiscing

Some days are so routine, you could probably get through them without ever even opening your eyes. You know what’s coming, you know how you’ll react when it does, and nothing unexpected musters the energy to crop up and surprise you.
Today isn’t that day for me. For starters, it’s only Gabe’s second day [...]

Pancakes!

Posted by Carrie on 24 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Reminiscing

Are you making them tonight? Are you heading to IHOP for their free pancake deal? Are you mystified, not knowing what I’m talking about?
Back in West Virginia, when I was an undergrad, our composition professor was also the choir director at the Episcopal church where Eric and I would eventually be [...]

My year in pictures

Posted by Carrie on 28 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Familial things, Pictures and movies, Reminiscing

Individual memories are so numerous and scattered that sometimes it’s easier to sum up a year by reflecting on what struck me as important enough, in the moment, to capture visually. If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is the year 2008 in 12,000 words.

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Required Holiday Viewing

Posted by Carrie on 10 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Reminiscing

Until I was dating Eric, I had never seen “It’s a Wonderful Life,” not even once. I still haven’t seen “A Miracle on 49th 34th Street.” (Whoops!) These things just never happened to appear on my family’s little television during my impressionable years, so it took my college friends to [...]

October!

Posted by Carrie on 01 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: Gabriel, House and Home, Pictures and movies, Reminiscing

Every year, people and stores (the former following the latter like docile sheep) crank out the holiday stuff earlier and earlier. Halloween stuff up in August, Thanksgiving in September…somebody I know saw, no lie, Christmas stuff out last month in one store. And it wasn’t one of those “Year-Round Yuletide” stores, either.
I make [...]

Race in about four hours

Posted by Carrie on 31 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health, Reminiscing

I’m all jittery. I always get like this before a race, where part of me is excited and ready, and part wants to hide behind the sofa until it’s over. What’s up with that? It’s not like I’m a contender for a medal or anything; I’m middle-to-back of the pack! Something [...]

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