happy stuff.

yesterday, i got to hold a brand new baby. two of my very good friends had a baby boy and i took a long lunch break so that i could go and meet him. he’s got that cute little scrunched up new baby/old man face and we agreed that his current resume would read, “highly [...]

just wanted to give a bloggy hurrah to my friends (who sometimes lurk here, i’m told) who opened a fabulous play this evening. it was written and starred and was stage-handed by some people i know (and some i don’t know) and i laughed and laughed. there were ingenious stage directions, great sound effects (live [...]

some of you astute readers may have noticed a distinct lack of reports about the “bread of the month” for the past few months. how observant of you. i have to say that the summer months do not make me want to heat up the kitchen, so…. i didn’t make any bread all summer! (what [...]

last night, a friend of mine invited me to go to see a concert of a duo she had heard on the radio and loved. i ended up being rather late and caught only the last 10-15 minutes or so (it was a free concert) but i loved it! the musicians are two acoustic guitarists [...]

today, one of my toddler storytimes had 41 people in attendance. normally, there’s about half that. the good morning/welcome song which we sing to each child took foreeeeeever! i was a little nervous about having a group that large (and i hope some people switch to a different time slot!), but it was actually ok. [...]

today is talk like a pirate day. i chose to host a pirate party at the library to celebrate the occasion. i had no idea it would be quite this popular. the registration list was full after only a few days and we had to start a waiting list and start referring people to other [...]

the lighting in my living room is horrendous for photography, but here is a picture of the new, curb harvested piece of furniture i wrote about a few days ago. i’m sorry to report that mr. happy stuff wasn’t really all that keen on it and there was some heated ‘discussion’ about whether it was [...]

in the past two days i’ve seen about 5 people from my old library’s community. some of them i’ve just waved to, some of them i’ve chatted with for way too long (“erm, i’m doing reader’s advisory for these patrons! and they needed me to hold their baby so they could carry more books!”) and [...]

yesterday morning, mr. h-s and i woke up early and biked over to the lake to watch the beginning of an ironman triathalon (2+ mile swim, 112 mile bike, marathon). we got there a little too late to actually see the people before they got into the lake, but we were there to see the [...]

so we’ve lived in this house for what, about three years now? and yesterday i finally met my neighbor. i occasionally see him around town on his bicycle (with a big poof of wavy graying hair and a mustache, he’s not hard to spot) and i’ve seen him out mowing his yard, but i’ve never [...]