The Flying Machine

Dear Universe,

Why do I have such an absurd love for To The Dogs or Whoever?

I mean, really. I'm not complaining, 'cause this song makes me HAPPY, but sheesh. You'd have thought I would have gotten over it by now, but nope. Still into it.

Posted by Sarah at 8:15 AM | Permalink

Last week I got my jam on and made:

Green tomato preserves (from The Gift of Southern Awesome Cooking)
Green tomato and apple chutney (ditto, and strong enough to peel your eyeballs)
Spicy fig orange jam (from Simply Recipes

This is in addition to the golden raspberry and peach preserves I've already put up. And the bourbon peaches, and the peach-rhubarb chutney, and then of course all that tomato sauce...

Next up: apple butter, applesauce, and pumpkin butter.

Posted by Sarah at 4:45 PM | Permalink

People, I am so excited.

Posted by Sarah at 7:53 AM | Permalink

I can officially call myself an Executive Director now. Pretty. Darn. Cool.

Posted by Sarah at 4:36 PM | Permalink

- Sleeping in until 7:30.

- Ray LaMontagne's Sarah (igif)

- Pretty much everything that Daniel Martin Moore does.

- Obama's grassroots organizing skillz. (huffpo)

- Pentagram's redesign of The Atlantic. So classy!

- Green tomatoes for green tomato preserves and fried green tomatoes.

- Still-fresh happy memories of all the friends I saw back East.

- A full-but-not-crazy weekend already planned: grape picking, harvest partying, beer brewing, and maybe a little Christmas shopping in Portlandia.

- Slowly, methodically making it through about 20 pages nightly of DFW's Everything and More.

Posted by Sarah at 10:09 AM | Permalink

Back in Oregon again. Gone a week, I came home to find the mountains already mantled with snow and a garden laid waste by the first killing frost.

While I basked in the sun along Brooklyn's wide, summery streets and Manhattan's steel corridors, autumn happened.

I already miss everyone I just left.

Posted by Sarah at 6:25 PM | Permalink

Amazing what a good conference can do for your motivation and career enthusiasm. It's nice.

Posted by Sarah at 2:05 PM | Permalink

The Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart.

Posted by Sarah at 9:34 AM | Permalink

I miss the tropics.

Posted by Sarah at 11:52 AM | Permalink

- Saw Burn After Reading, first movie I have seen in a theatre since, uh, Wall-E. My new least favorite Coen brothers movie ever.

- Packing for Philly and NYC and trying to go ultra light: 1 carry-on backpack. This is proving challenging, especially because many of my travel-size liquids come in 4 oz containers. I mean, the limit is 3 oz. Will they REALLY notice?

- My cousin made the NYT! Too bad they did not publish the photos of all of Amma's handiwork.

- Really excited for the new Jolie Holland album. Springtime Can Kill You really didn't do it for me, but this one harkens more toward a mood and sound I like. Also, she covers Todd Snider.

- Not really happy with my lifestyle right now. Still too busy, too little free time, too much guilt over how much is yet undone. Starting to get that terrible mental wall when I think about work. Starting to dread it. This is not what I want to happen. I've got to find a way to step back and let some of this weight on my shoulders fall away.

Posted by Sarah at 11:49 AM | Permalink