I have weightier ideas floating around in my head, but I have found these past couple of days that I have been commenting around the blogsphere about the coziness of my bed.

A few months ago, I was asked to pick my favorite spot for a Circle Journal I was working on, and my choice was my bed. This is the spot that I am able to curl up in, relax at the end of the day, catch up on my reading, spend time talking with my love, and lay in bed and see both the nightstand handmade by my husband, and my small icon corner. It is truly my retreat and my respite.

Earlier this week, UPS delivered a new treat for my bed – a down comforter that Dh and I picked out (from Costco). We dug out an old duvet cover (we’d never quite liked the synthetic duvet, though) and have been entrenched under a cozy fluffy weight ever since. I joked on my Facebook page that I may never get out of bed again. Although, truth be told, my flannel sheets totally clash with my duvet cover – maybe I’ll put a solid color set on my Christmas list.

While Autumn is one of my four favorite seasons, I admit to it bringing to me a hibernating desire, there’s nothing that I’d love more than to never leave the house during Fall and Winter, just sit by the fire or cuddle up on my bed and read. Alas, I have work to do, places to go, and people to see.

Enjoy a cozy weekend!

A little bit of this, a little bit of that.


The appealing X-man on Halloween (that line was on the costume package) I thought he looked cute. One of the husband’s friends has a toddler, and he brought her over to Trick or Treat in our neighborhood. It was very cute.

Our last CSA delivery was this past week – in it was brussels sprouts , a particular favorite of my husband. He and the boys enjoyed very much, I’m a bit more neutral on them. We also got celeriac root , which lead to a discussion last night of how much it sounded like a pharmaceutical, with “taking celeriac may lead to complications” voice-overs while eating dinner. Our sadness at the season ending has been tempered by the fact that our farm is running a pilot Winter CSA program, and we got one of the few spots available, whooooooo.

As a die-hard manual transmission driver, I found this to be an interesting article, I particularly liked this part:

Sure, learning to drive a stick was a rite of passage, handed down for generations. Mastering a manual said not only that you knew your way around a car, but that you were becoming a man. But 20 years from now, young drivers may wonder what the fuss was about. Like kids who’ve never heard of the Beatles, they’ll give us a pitying look when we start going on about the days when “real” cars had three foot-pedals and something called a “shift knob.”

Heh. Apparently I’m a Beatles listening man, who knew?

This is subtitled, "This one is for you, Matt" - congratulations to the Phillies for an excellent World Series run. I guess I don't feel so bad about the Dodgers losing to the ultimate World (or at least US, Trace) champs. Plus, the erstwhile Mariner, Jamie Moyer got to be a part of the team, congratulations

Because the husband is a Kevin Smith fan, we saw the gross, raunchy, hysterical, crude and absolutely sweet “Zack and Miri…” yesterday afternoon, and then we found ourselves wandering in the mall while we waited for the X-man to finish visiting his friends.

And, I was touched on Friday to get a package from the fantastic and artistic Stephanie. It was a pair of lovely gardening gloves and a package of seeds for our garden next spring. So many of my favorites were there, we are all set! Thank you, my friend