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I thought I had a pretty comprehensive collection of glam dresses and heels, until I got involved with #burlesque. 2-3 events this week and I'm already afraid I'm recycling outfits!

Burlesque stage name finalists:
Trixie Spirit
Babette La Stockinette
Hotsy Flashy

Knitting a small-scale test of my burlesque costume.

I just started my first ever burlesque class and it's so exciting! I'm actually less nervous about appearing in public in a state of undress than I am about having to dance in public! Planning a knitting themed act.

I have to pack for a week in NYC that includes a wedding and associated festivities and I feel like I’ve forgotten how to dress for cold.

How many cups of tea in one day is too many? Does your answer change I feel each cup gets a slice of leftover gingerbread with it?

Ah, time for the annual "who gets the oven" throw down with my husband (potatoes) vs. me (gingerbread cake). Holiday cheer!

It's almost worth coming down with a cold for the hot toddies

The nightly conflagration begins! https://mastodon.social/media/cWzP0PhHVt34C6F89Y4

HOLIDAY SCORECARD
Holiday cards: Ordered
Dinnerware for Christmas Eve: Rented
Christmas lights hung: Partial
Hanukkah candles: Better hurry up
Egg Nog: Hell yes

Just blew my Beatles and conspiracy theory loving 11 year old's mind with the Paul is Dead legend

This project, on exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, is a brilliant examination of women in the arts and the avant-garde, using an imaginary artist character to shed light on real artists who have been overlooked.
http://www.carolsawyer.net/work/natalie-brettschneider/

Taught my kids the "I am a pleasant mother pheasant plucker" tongue twister. Hilarity ensued.

If my family could chain me to the kitchen to bake Tuscan sourdough like Jesse cooking meth for the Nazis on Breaking Bad I don't think they would hesitate for a second. On my third loaf this week!

In other advent calendar news (and by the way, I'm Jewish, so didn't grow up with advent calendars; celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas and Yule is one of the many pleasures of an interfaith marriage), my sci-fi writer son has provided the first two instalments of this year's short story calendar. This year it's in the form of daily news reports from an intergalactic war.

Beer advent calendar at the ready!

Marriage, year 18: even though I am still super pissed off at my husband, I just put together a craft beer advent calendar for him. Hopefully he'll crack into it when he gets home from his show call late tonight

Just played a game of my kid's own devising -- Go Fish but with hockey cards

My husband and I had a short but really ugly argument tonight about important family issues. I'm going to bed angry, and I'm ok with that.

But in better news, made my best sourdough loaf yet.