I Like Chocolate Chocolate Cookies for Dinner

The Double Fudge cookies from Mother's Cookies are some of my favorites. Mmmmm... Guess what I had for dinner tonight?  Yup.  About 8 Mother's(TM) Double Fudge Creme cookies followed by one rather meager homemade bean/cheese burrito.  Gotta have dessert first - life's too short, and there are no guarantees!

Photo credit:  Mother's Cookies, http://www.motherscookies.com/images/products/foodshot_17412.jpg

I Like a Breather Between Classes!

It's been awhile since I posted, and my apologies, but I have a good excuse - really.  I started grad school on top of my regular full-time job - right at the time of year that I start with 60 hour work weeks.  I know that I posted recently about how awesome my husband is to continue supporting me in my insanity, so you all out there do already have some foreknowledge of my self-induced plight.

Well, and so here I find myself in the one week break in between courses.  It's wonderful, but I find myself being overrun with catch-up work.  Got the taxes done, get extra hours in at work, got the professional certification exam scheduled, got the upgrade implementation to go-live at work and next on the list is to apply for financial aid for the year now that I got my taxes done.  So, yes, it's awesome to have a week off, now, when can I get a week of for real?!  (A:  oh... when school's really overwith and the catch-up is done, you silly goose - no one to blame but yourself, after all, but boy do I hope I can make piles of money after it's all over with!)

It's Terrifying, but I Like David Thorne's Writing

Visit David Thorne's 27b/6 blog here, and just try not to almost die laughing.  Writing that I like his writing is  terrifying because he has a rapier wit and I'm pretty scared of being a target because I know that I am no match.  None.  Nope.  Nada.  None whatsoever.  Did I say none?  I roll over.  I surrender.  Considering I'm not a customer, not a co-worker not in advertising or graphic design at all, and have nothing to do with his son, hopefully I'll be safe. 

Nonetheless, for the sake of my blog, I take this risk, exposing myself, so that you, too, my dear, nearly non-existent readers, may come to know the humor, the sidesplitting hootenanny that is David Thorne's 27b/6 blog.  I might even buy his book.  You might, too.  I like virtual spiders. Kind of.

I Like My Friend's Blog and Her Writing

So, I have a friend who writes the Marvelous Mrs. E blog.  Check it out.  She's a little strange - much like someone else I know (yeah, okay, I could be talking about myself or any number of my friends; you just infer how you like).  We don't always share the same beliefs, and she can be a wingnut (pot, kettle... like I'm one to talk), but she's good people, by golly, and I do like her!  So, go read her blog - she's a wonderful writer with a stellar voice and style who actually has the courage to write about her life.  That's more than I can say for most - myself included!

I Like My New T-Shirt!

My most awesome husband bought this for me! ♥ It was waiting for me when I got home a couple of days ago. :-) I wore it proudly today while out and about running Saturday errands out w/the hubster!  Sadly, there were no decisions about which we were torn, so trying out a game will have to wait. ;-)  BTW, I LOVE the stuff on the www.thinkgeek.com website!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/b9c7/

I like quiet time... and the patience of my husband.

So I work full time at a job that really is 40-60 hrs/wk, I just started grad school, just closed on the purchase of a new home (my husband's and my first!), and am preparing to move my dad who has dementia in with my husband and me.  Also, my husband has major issues with his back and has been getting different back procedures for the last year.  And I take my dad to all of his medical appointments - and at 82, he has a lot.  My husband and I only  have 1 car (it's what we can afford at this time).  Life is incredibly hectic.

Looking back I see that my last likeable stuff blog was 2 weeks ago!  How is that even possible?  Really?!  Two weeks?  I'm pretty sure that it was, like, 5 days ago.  Seriously.

So, after seeing that, and sitting here exhausted, but not quite ready to go to bed yet, it occurs to me that it's because I'm enjoying the quiet time.  These few precious moments that I steal - mostly from my husband, who has the patience to endure my insanity of some kind of super-patient person.  He is truly awesome.  I like quiet time.  I love my husband.

I Like the Comedy of Eddie Izzard

Well, the title of the post pretty much says it all:  I Like the Comedy of Eddie Izzard.  Each time I see a stand-up routine by him, I just hoot!  Okay, so I don't always understand everything that he's saying (I'm not quite as worldly as all that), but I get most of it, and it's pretty darn funny.  Check him out.