Archive for May 2008
Modifying the menu
Posted by: Sarah on: May 29, 2008
I’m moving shifts next weekend — for the first time in my dozen years of working full-time, I will work the standard 9 to 6 day. Granted, it’s not quite market hours and it’s not quite material from a Dolly Parton song, but, y’know, what more can you ask for in the early 21st century [...]
sweet cherry pie
Posted by: Sarah on: May 26, 2008
When I was in college, I worked for the university paper as a designer and sometimes features writer. I remember one week in October of ‘96, my features editor handed me a stack of CDs and told me to review them even though the slightly-deaf girl is probably not the best music critic on staff. [...]
Dear God, I am eighty years old
Posted by: Sarah on: May 24, 2008
So, I yelled at some kids to get off my lawn. Like, for serious. “Hey, you! Get off my property,” for realsies.
There were a group of girls — sullen adolescent females — who gave me the blank look of “you can’t make me do anything,” but they eventually moved all of six feet down [...]
booty
Posted by: Sarah on: May 23, 2008
See that hat? Fair isle skulls. My own design, sort of. I knocked it out last weekend, and I was sad that I wouldn’t have the opportunity to wear it for six months — though there might have been a moment when I schemed to sneak into the ice cream freezer at the supermarket.
And then, [...]
And a flaky crust made of FAIL
Posted by: Sarah on: May 11, 2008
I got cocky.
On Friday morning, I made cupcakes. Red velvet, cream cheese frosting, run-of-the-mill cupcakes. This morning, I made lemon bars. Stupid, simple lemon bars.
And somewhere between the cupcakes and the lemon bars, a copy of this month’s Martha Stewart Living snaked its way into the house and I just happened to fall in love [...]
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