30 days of lists: day 30

i don't want to remember running around like a maniac, moving a horse and doing a whole lot of last-minute packaging and sewing stuff before tomorrow's market. i will manage, somehow, to get it all done. time will expand and be all that i need.

30 days of lists: day 29

i had this ready and couldn't get into blogger for hours due to some strange "infinite loop error" message. very strange. but here it is. better late than never and only one to go. went to a late open evening tonight, but only bought some small gifts for sabin's december christmas countdown calendar. i really do want to go with either handmade or flea market items this year and not succumb to the usual gift panic. happily, my budget will hold me to that.

oh, and these aren't minifigs, but some ordinary christmas-themed lego from a few years ago. i love that little reindeer.

a busy weekend awaits. we're moving sabin's horse home tomorrow and i'm frantically finishing up things for the christmas market on sunday, but first, a good night's sleep.

happy weekend one and all!

30 days of lists: day 28

always in my fridge. i should also have written cauliflower. i almost always have a head of cauliflower in the crisper. and i always have eggs, but i don't keep them in the fridge. they don't in the grocery stores in the UK, so why should i? never had a problem with them either. and for those who don't know danish, pålæg is sandwich fixings (ham, paté, sausage). a convenient and handy little one word that covers it all.

30 days of lists: day 27

this item on the list makes me think it's aimed at a crowd a bit younger than me, but at the same time, it was fun to think back and see which courses popped into my head. the last one was taught by me, the others i took. i like being a student better than being the teacher, but it was a fun course nonetheless.

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a heartwarming little story about lego minifigures.

30 days of lists: day 26

the only rules i have for friendship are - be funny, be smart, be interesting and laugh a lot. that's not too much ask, is it?

30 days of lists: day 25

every family has squirks. my dad hates cucumbers, beets and onions. my mother; she can make ice cream sound crunchy (even when it's not). my sister has loads of quirks, but at the moment, it's the alarming amount of motorcycles piling up in her garage. husband can eat an astonishing amount of chocolate in a very short amount of time and you don't actually see him doing it. he's that fast. and sabin, since she was very little, gets completely squirmy and can't be still right before she falls dead asleep. it's rather uncanny, actually.  and me? i've not got any quirks, i'm sure.

30 days of lists: day 24

30 days of lists: day 23

i should have put on the list that i went through a marilyn phase about 25 years ago.
but i didn't think of that 'til now when i'm looking at the marilyn minifig.

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the peak of chic - getting at the stories behind the designs.

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i'm thinking of becoming a vayable guide.
now i've just got to come up with a fun, unique tour.

30 days of lists: day 22

i don't know if this was the kind of recent dreams they meant (and i do realize it's a bit hard to read). but i had the strangest dream the other night. i was at some western-themed resort with my mom and my sister. for some reason, they had hitched a team of horses to the pickup and horse trailer and were trying to turn them around (why they didn't just drive the pickup was unclear) when they nearly backed it into the large body of water that was right there. my whole life, i've had dreams about falling into water, usually yucky, stagnant water that doesn't turn out to be so bad once i'm in it. it just looked bad before i fell in. when i woke up, the trailer was precariously balancing on the edge and i don't know if it fell in or not.

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i've bought a nikon coolpix p520 for sabin for christmas. i got a good price on it because it had been a display model. to make sure it works, i took my list shots with it today. i don't really know how to control the ISO, but it seems to have chosen an ok one for itself (tho' i have it on aperture priority and it should have been up to me to choose). it's a neat little camera and takes HD video (which is why she wanted it). for me, it's a bit of a frustrating step back, since it doesn't take the shot immediately, but only when it's good and ready. i remember that about my old sony point & shoot, but it's been a long time. you can't see on it that was a display model and it has the full warranty. i'm satisfied it works, so i'll pack it up and she'll be pleased as punch on christmas. and yes, i'm sure she doesn't read my blog, so i haven't spoiled the surprise. i love that what she most wanted for christmas was a camera of her own and tho' i'd have bought her a nikon 3200 if i were choosing, she had done her research and she knew what she wanted, so i got her that. 

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a big thank you to blogger for moving the height and width so that they're next to one another in the html. it makes it so much easier to resize photos!

30 days of lists: day 21

my own personal food pyramid. there's a solid base of tea, coffee and wine (i should have put it in that order). then the second layer are the things i frequently make for dinner - stir-frys (stir fries looked wrong), omelettes, soup and quiches. then comes our new favorite cheese - a fabulous french sheep milk cheese called petit basque. so good. a bit pricey, but completely worth it. and then sushi on top. i love sushi, but don't get to eat it that often now that we live in the countryside. there are a lot of veggies and fruit too, but they weren't as humorous.

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human architecture by spencer tunick. 

30 days of lists: day 20

what's comforting you these dark, dreary november days?

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if you're interested in some beautiful, mint-condition vintage camera equipment or woodworking tools, check bill's listings on eBay!

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and speaking of co-creation, check out these mother-daughter drawings.

30 days of lists: day 19

is liberalness a word? if not, it should be.

30 days of lists: day 18

the cheerleader is in honor of the cheerios from glee.

30 days of lists: day 17

30 days of lists: day 16

my sister was driving our old toyota and she had a 6-year-old sabin in the car. she was supposed to be headed for ikea, where we were to meet, but then the muffler partially fell off and started dragging and leaving a rather alarming trail of sparks. not knowing the greater copenhagen area, she had no idea where she was, so, on the phone with me and trying to explain, she looked around and said, "we're by the side of the road, right in front of a pizza place and a florist." which could be pretty much anywhere in denmark. it turned out that she wasn't that far from ikea, but it wasn't the ikea we were aiming for.

she once licked spilled limoncello off a table at a restaurant in the philippines. as one does. you should always lick up spilled limoncello. that stuff shouldn't be wasted.

30 days of lists: day 15

there's a whole lot more than that in the junk drawer, but we won't go into that...

30 days of lists: day 14

no weekend is complete without good wine, good food, a walk in the woods, an episode of midsommer murders or my sunday morning in bed with a cup of tea and the iPad. what makes your weekend complete?

30 days of lists: day 13

this list could have been much longer, but it was too depressing to continue. i probably have far more bad habits than good ones. tho' the nail biting isn't a consistent bad habit, i have fits of it and then can go for months without biting them at all.  how about you? what are your bad habits?

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did you ever read mona simpson's eulogy for her brother steve jobs?

i only just found it and thought it was beautiful.

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reading this wired piece about the two bills (gates & clinton) restored some of my faith in humanity.
in the words of bill clinton:
"helping them live their lives is much more important than who we used to be."

30 days of lists: day 12

you'd think with it being the darkest, dreariest month, i'd not have been able to find any good things about november, but it wasn't really that hard. i think i'm more able to appreciate what november brings this year, because we had a wonderful summer and a glorious autumn, so i'm ready for the colder temperatures, the grey days and the turning inward that november brings.

30 days of lists: day 11

things my family taught me - what came to mind were often-repeated phrases and my only rule (win or don't come home). but i think they also made me fearless. except for heights, i'm pretty afraid of those. there was also, "the lord helps those who help themselves," but i thought i was out of room for typing on the card. it probably would have fit, but it's hard to tell when the card is in the typewriter.