Holiday greetings for 2021
It was the best of times, it was the most repetitive of times. It was the age of home cooking experimentation, it was the age of movie marathons. It was the epoch of home organization, it was the epoch of Zoom. And it was, frankly, kind of a long year. We’re still both working from home, getting two months to the gallon on our commute, and thanks to Andy’s new label-maker and some free-time on my end, our pantry is cleaned, organized, labeled, and borders on “a-serial-killer-might-live-here.” The linen closet is cleaned, yard work was almost kept up with, and there are several new craft projects completed. I finally gave my notice at my job in June after 14 months of exhausting hours and seeing problems not addressed, and any qualms I might have had were resolved when my replacement quit on her third day. I left without having another job lined up because I was just too exhausted to be able to ...