Happy Feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Co-Patroness of the Dominican Order! 🙂
Outside my window::
Getting dark, and it’s COLD. Like in the teens at night cold. Brrr!
Wearing::
Black v-neck dress with a deep blue camisole, and black flats earlier, but those are off. My “grover” (my furry North Face Fleece, which is bright blue) is getting a lot of use as well these days.
In the kitchen::
Pasta, cacio e pepi, which is basically pasta with lots of cheese and pepper.
Reading::
St. Catherine of Siena’s dialogues. I should finish this tonight!
Fun links::
Pride and patridges: Jane Austen and food.
Praying for::
Angela in her “cancer eradication” surgery today. 🙂 (That’s what she’s calling it)
My pregnant friends
Around the house::
I have to start wrapping Christmas gifts. I did a lot of cleaning this weekend and my Advent wreath and my Nativity are both us. The tree is this weekend’s project. I only have work until Wednesday at noon, so a nice long holiday is in my future! Plenty of time to clean and deck the halls.
Being creative::
A bit less than 9,000 words left in NaNoWriMo sweeps! Yes! I also ordered a ton of new yarn today for a ridiculously low price, so I want to finish the scarf I have going on now and then clear my needles for the yarn that’s coming!
In the CD player::
Oh yeah, it’s Christmas music. 🙂
Plans for the week::
In no particular order: Thanksgiving (well, on Thursday, duh); three Pure Barre classes; my brother coming over with his girlfriend; the OSU Michigan game; putting up the tree; seeing Frozen, and going to a production of A Christmas Carol on Sunday. And I want to see Book Thief too!
Head over to Suscipio for more CWAs!
I love ya…but I have kids, a full time job, cantor, try to knit, perform and I am exhausted with all you’ve got going on. Win that NaNoWriMo T-shirt girl!
xoxo
Love the Christmas Carol…so lucky you are…and time to get all the decorating done. I was going to start and good old hubby decides to demo a wall and now there is dust everywhere and there is not way I am going to be able to start decorating this week.
Anyway, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Hey Em. I tell you this all the time, I love your Almanac’s. Your food sounds delish and I love hearing about your fun activities. Enjoy your long weekend sweetie.
Great Almanac!
We really want to see the Book Thief. Great flick I bet.
Hugs & prayers & Happy Thanksgiving!
Blessings,
Em
You have it all together for Advent and Christmas, girl! I am inspired and motivated by people like you, honest! I hope to get my Advent ribbons and Nativity set sans the Baby Jesus out tomorrow.
Enjoy “A Christmas Carol,” and I hope you do get to watch “The Book Thief.”