Trish’s Blog

…unless you count the Lego Star Wars noise coming from the TV and random declarations coming from the 17-month-old.

I’ve got two kids here and two kids at camp. It feels very weird. I will be retrieving one of the campers tonight, but for the time being, it’s very quiet here now. No one is bullying or fighting or crying. Zoe just dragged a toy (Sarah’s old computer keyboard with the cord cut down) across the kitchen floor and now she has it on the window sill, happily pushing the buttons and telling herself she’s a good girl (sounds like “guh-goh”). Seth is playing Wii now that he is no longer grounded.

I got on the computer to look up a recipe, but got sucked into FriendFeed for an hour catching up on the rooms I’m subscribed to. And then I ended up here. If I Twittered, I would have made a one-statement post to no one in particular and that would have been the end of it. I just can’t get myself to Twitter, though, and only friends/family who read my blog care anyway, so that’s what I’m here to say. Of course, I’ve never really been good at one-statement posts or short blog posts, for that matter.

I got excited about the FriendFeed Swap – 01 box progress. Tina started a swap and a room for anyone on FF who wanted to participate. She also created a google map showing where the box is going (she’s geeky like that). It started in SC and has made its way up the East Coast and overseas to the UK and France. Every time someone gets the box, they post pictures to the room so we can see what kinds of things people are putting in the box. It’s also nice to put faces to the names that I interact with. The idea is to put a little in the box and take a little out. I need ideas on what to put in the box when it gets here. I can’t put in Armadillo road kill or a Texas Longhorn, but I’m guessing something from Texas is in order. Any suggestions?

I’m getting ready to send out a little box to Pennsylvania. Janet sent me a jar of delicious strawberry jam—I threw myself into her thread showing pictures of her making it and she had mercy on me. Strawberries are a weakness of mine. You send me something strawberry, and I’m yours. Sarah made something for her and Seth added his thanks for the Shoo-Fly Pie (she lives near or in Amish country). I’m throwing in some random Texas things and considering it my Swap Box practice run. I hope she likes the stuff in there.

I’m going to get that recipe and get off the computer now. Gotta take advantage of these quiet times. Don’t forget to leave a comment/suggestion on what I should put in the Swap Box. Help me out… all I can think of is chocolate, but it would be liquified before it left the state… it’s quiet and HOT here.

Posted on June 24th, 2009 by trish
Filed under: Life