The weekend

[ceebeegee]

I flew home this weekend to go to the farm with Cami. Caught the earliest shuttle flight I could stand, Mom picked me up and I napped for a bit, then Cami came and we went out to Centreville together. The weather was a bit warm but nice and sunny. We had a great time, although I was a bit woozy from my nap. I really love that place. I love how wholesome the entire experience is; I love how when we go on the hayride and we pass the alien ship, the two goofy aliens burst out from behind and wave madly at all the kids on the hayride. So adorable, and you know they must groan when they have to do the alien shift. ("Aw, man!...Okay." But it never shows; they just seem so into it.) No attitudinal teenagers there; all the kid-workers are just so cheerful and friendly. Love. It.

I picked out a sugar pie pumpkin and a couple of tiny ones, as well as a sour cherry pie and a small pecan pie tart. God, I cannot resist a good PE-can pie. Mmmm...Yesterday I mashed it and stuck it in Mom's freezer for later; when I come home for Thanksgiving I'll turn it into pumpkin pie. Mmmm...

I had a few nice long conversations with Joni, but unfortunately we didn't actually get together. When I come home for Thanksgiving, we're planning to have a bakeoff--man, I love that shit. As much as I love NY life, it sucks that I can't bake really at all up here. My apartment is just too small. I need to indulge my domestic side. I need to knit and bake and clean and nurture.

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I cook like Betty Crocker... and I look like Alaina Reed...*

[mollyx.livejournal.com]

I have my Happy Homemaker moments, too. I bake, but you knew that.I've never tried bread, though. I should try bread. I also had a passing fancy with knitting last year. I had to learn it for a show. I need to take it up again. Holidays are coming up.





*For clarification, Alaina Reed played Rose on 227. I mean, let's face it. Donna Reed, I ain't.

Re: I cook like Betty Crocker... and I look like Alaina Reed...*

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Love knitting. Very creative. I love all the needlecrafts, in fact--cross-stitch, needlepoint, embroidery. (Never learned to crotchet, though.)

When I was a little girl my stepmother turned me on to needlepoint and macrame (that was in the early-mid '70s, when after the political explosion of the late '60s, everyone turned inward and became very domestic). And then I taught myself to sew by hand, made stuff for my dolls. It's funny because I was such a tomboy--rode bikes, climbed trees, played soccer and baseball--but I had a really pronounced domestic side. When I got older I grew to love baking as well, though not cooking so much.

(BTW, congratulations, duckling!)