Oct 21 2002
amphigorey, pictures, and stuff
When I was selecting a name for this site, I’d forgotten about Edward Gorey’s Amphigorey-
a wonderful collection of some of his works. I, myself, am only vaguely familiar with his stuff, but Husband is a big fan. I’ve gotta say, who wouldn’t love a book like The Gashlycrumb Tinies, in which you’ll find passages such as:
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We’re also both owners of t-shirts bearing his artwork:
which is highly appropriate, given the number of cats and books that can be found in our house, and our fondness for both. 
Yay, our wedding pictures recently arrived from our photographer! Now begins the task of selecting the right ones for reprints, for our album, and for scanning to post here.
Stay tuned! I should also be posting a few from the disposable cameras soon.
Double-yay, our thank-you notes are almost in the mail, at longlong last! Apologies to any readers who have been awaiting our notes; I am notoriously bad at thank-yous, particularly at getting them in the mail (when cleaning house prior to my most recent move, I discovered a box that had 2 years’ worth of thank-you notes that I actually *wrote* but never took to the post office. Quelle Horreur! I decided it would be even further mortification if I put them in the mail 2 years late, so they never made their destinations. Bad Beth, no biscuit). Husband and I have shared the note-writing duties, each of us responsible for writing to our own families. Husband is also a procrastinator when it comes to this task, and actually tried to foist some of his onto me with the reasoning that because I’m a girl the writing of the thank-yous comes more naturally to me. I’m not buyin’ it. :-> [hee! Husband asserts he was just kidding!] So, just a few envelopes left to be addressed and stamped, a recheck of our list, and we’re done!
Uneventful weekend, this weekend past, which was nice. The weekend prior we entertained my folks (and took them to dinner in exchange for Mum helping make bedroom curtains [is it wrong to use the word 'helping' when I really mean 'doing all the work while I just ironed and watched her' ??] ). That was nice, because it was the first time they’d seen our house in the year+ that we’ve been here. We managed to make most of the main rooms [mostly] tolerable for visitors, and, surprisingly enough, we haven’t *entirely* negated the efforts with further clutter.
This weekend we took time to read at Starbucks (yay, Caramel Apple Cider!), nap, watch our Sunday evening HBO, and work on our notes. I also made one of our favorite beef curry recipes in the crock-pot, along with some oatmeal-raisin cookies (not in the crock pot - though that’s an intriguing idea). I’ve never been very good at cookie-baking - even the drop cookies that require no rolling pin seem to give me troubles (I wonder if I can blame our ancient oven that has one heating element broken). These came out reasonably well, if a little crumbly and overly done. Must practice a bit more, methinks. Also need to hunt up some new crock-pot recipes, as they’re great for us - low maintenance cooking, mostly, and they often make tons so we have plenty of leftovers (perfect for me, as I often loathe the idea of arriving home after 6:30 or 7pm to face another hour or two of dinner prep - why we so often have the Lean Cuisine from the freezer instead). Let me know if you have some good ones!
