Short rhyme in honor of this (hectic) time of year

Between running sound board at one theater
and playing clarinet in another show,

I end up getting home
very late,

for

many
days
in
a
row.


Zzzzzz ...

(I know, but it's the best I can do right now.)

Happiness is ...

having leftover pumpkin pie from Thanksgiving and Tom's amazing oatmeal-date cookies in the house at the same time!

Mmmm ...

Things that make you go "hmm ... "

Seen in local library:


Well. That's a very ... clear and ... informative sign.

... hmm ...

(It's not like those two categories are right next to each other in the Dewey Decimal system -- they're not! They could have been split up amongst two different shelves.

I'm just saying. )

Another way to tell it's fall

The fountain in front of my office gets a snazzy seasonal coat.


It's very... festive.

(I think the groundskeepers have to wash the top of the dome pretty often, seeing as there are overhanging tree branches where birds really like to sit. You see where I'm going with that?)

My kind of book signing!

This past Sunday, Tom and I went to the Cake Wrecks book signing, and it was brilliant.

The Cake Wrecks blog, by the way, is the funniest thing on the entire Internet, and if for some reason you've never checked it out, you've just got to! My coworkers can always tell when I'm reading the daily posting, because I'm either under my desk laughing, or sputtering things like, "Get ... OUT!"

The authors gave a hilarious slide show presentation. The event was held at a Barnes & Noble, so I can only imagine what other people elsewhere in the store were thinking when this huge crowd of us kept roaring with laughter. It was a complete gut buster. Tom nearly fell out of his chair.

So, this being a book signing about a cake book, obviously there had to be ... CAKE!

Hey, this was as close as the crowd let me get to this cake!

Professional cake makers donated very fun cakes to the event.

There's a contest to see who can replicate the funniest of the "wrecks" in miniature form. Apparently our event generated the most entries. The authors were very impressed!


There were a lot of really good ones, too!

If you follow the blog, you'll appreciate these beauts.

Believe me, the event would NOT have been complete without this fellow.

There was a huge line for the actual signing, but it was worth it. The book is hilarious.

And I got to say hi to Jen and John!

We're still giggling about the whole thing and it was two days ago!

Very good times.