January 4th, 2010 by Sherry

You know this, I know this.
It might be time to move things along, forget about the past, and begin 2010 fresh and clean because, honestly, I just don’t have the knowledge or the patience (apparently) to fix this wordpress nonsense.
You may have already figured it out, but comments are totally not functional. I just thought that nobody loved me anymore, which could completely be the case, but don’t burst my bubble quite yet. My heart, it is frah-gee-lay.
Anyway, I’ve moved the blog address. Please allow me to be a total pain and ask you to move your bookmarks, subscribe to my new feed, pretty much follow me to the ends of the earth.
Come on, you know you want to.
There’s not much change, really….
Instead of sherendipity.com/blog, it’s sherendipity.com/daily
See? Easy peasy.
Alright, I’ll make it even gravier for you, simply click THIS.

January 3rd, 2010 by Sherry

We’ve been eating a lot of take out over these Holidays. With the house in a Christmas festivity mess, then adding to the post Christmas organizational disasters here and there, (after all, it always has to get DISorganized before the organization can begin) coupled with the fact that I’ve been really lazy and my family members are even lazier, cooking hasn’t been a top priority.
(although, I must say, laziness HAS been a top priority this Christmas break, and I am SO very sorry to see it end tomorrow morning)
Anyway…it was coffee time this morning, and I was famished so I decided that it was time to make a home made breakfast. One problem, Old Mother Heitmeyer’s cupboards were (are still) bare.
Oh what to do.
I knew I had eggs in there, because I bought a gazillion dozens before Christmas with the intent to do enough baking to give the entire planet diabetes, and a mountain of those Pillsbury Crescent Roll thingers….
….you know, these things:

and some shitty low fat cheese that tastes like rubber.
Mmmm, nummy huh? I know, you can’t wait to be invited to my house for breakfast, can you?!
Anyway…what’s a girl to do but throw it all together and stick it in the oven? So I did.

I cracked the eggs, grated the rubber cheese, popped the Pillsbury can (which is always the fun part) and layed out the tiny triangles of goodness. Then I dipped the Pillsbury triangles into the beaten egg mixture, layed them on a no stick cookie sheet, coated them in the grated cheese, and rolled them up. The end result looked like this:

The cooking instructions on the package, for the buns themselves, say to bake for 10 to 13 minutes, so I set the oven timer as such, and while they were baking my kitchen filled with the smell of delicious.

I paired the cheese buns with some scrambled eggs, and the end result was awesome. They were super tasty, which is kind of disappointing because I was actually looking forward to doing this really great, mouth watering blog post, and then telling you that they tasted like ass, and to not make them.
Which would have been hilarious, if only to me.

(please excuse the Corel plate that went out of style 25 years ago, and the fact that I still have no clue how to focus the “nifty fifty” lens on my new Canon 50D)

January 1st, 2010 by Sherry

I’m pretty sure I can keep this one. 2009 can suck it. Hard.

I’m hesitant to say that I’m heading off into 2010 (will you say “twenty ten” or “2 thousand ten”??) with some high hopes and a sense of optimism. You know, ’cause Murphy likes to bite me in the ass.
But, I am. (*ducks*)

2009 was hard. 2008 was hard, too. My God, I need a new beginning to less shitty.
We’ve had a wonderful Holiday. We’ve all been off over Christmas break and, except for yesterday, the office has pretty much left me alone to enjoy it. Santa was very good to everyone. Baby New Year rang in last night with a wonderful night spent with my honey, and not even an inkling of a hang over. If Sherlock Holmes didn’t bore me to tears, I would wager to call it perfect. (seriously, don’t spend “theater money” to see that movie.)
I’ve spent today organizing, and cleaning and puttering with a sense of well being that I haven’t had in a long time. I hope, when the hustle and bustle of Holiday vacation life is over, that it remains through the long work day, high school exams for both kids, sleepless nights and mini crisis’.

Here’s wishing you all the best in ‘10, my lovies.
Bring it on.

December 29th, 2009 by Sherry

I hope that your Christmas was wonderful and I wish you all the best this coming New Year.

December 22nd, 2009 by Sherry

I always have all kinds of ideas for this Tuesday post, until I get here and put my fingers on the keys.

Santa is bringing me new camera equipment for Christmas, so I have a feeling this blog is going to turn into a photo montage. Please don’t run away.

When I made reference to “being invited” to my Grandmother’s funeral a few posts back, I didn’t really mean that it was an invitational event. It’s just that I’m normally the last to know about things concerning my family, and I expect the funeral arrangements to be no difference. You would think that it’s because I have disassociated myself with my family but, the truth is, being the last to know is one of the many reasons that has made disassociation easier. It’s always been that way.

I wonder what you have to add:

3 more sleeps!!

I really need Christmas to get here. My living room is full of presents. You can barely walk around in it. It’s wonderful, actually.

We went to see Avatar on Sunday. Seriously, go see it. It was awesome. But, see it in 3D, don’t waste your time any other way. You need to book in on the awesomeatude. Is too a word.

I also took my niece to see New Moon. New Moon was much better than the first Twilight movie, but there was a whole lot of room for improvement there, so that doesn’t say much. I think the reason I didn’t mind New Moon was because that Lautner kid walked around with his shirt off through the whole movie and I’m a total cougar there was less love mushy mushy dialog and bad acting, and more cool werewolf action.

Well, this RTT is kind of a waste of space, but I’m supposed to be showered and getting ready for work by now. Go read better ones here:

December 20th, 2009 by Sherry

This is the original, and better in my opinion, version of Empire State of Mind. Without JayZ.

Tell me what you think.

December 19th, 2009 by Sherry

My Grandmother died early Friday morning. I got the call at 1:55am.
I have yet to shed a tear. The truth is, it was her time to go. It was long past her time to go. My grandmother has been bed ridden for a few years now, incapable of feeding herself, carrying on a conversation, speaking at all, really. The poor lady had no quality of life. It’s not fair to want her to stay alive in her state, and doing so is only selfish on our parts. I don’t know if you believe in an afterlife, in a heaven or hell, reincarnation or whatnot, but it was her time to move on and discover what ever there is out there after this life. She’s finally at peace, so they say, and I hope with all my heart that’s the case.
Family politics has already begun. There’s arguments to suggest when a service should be had, being so close to the Holidays and all. So far it’s all been very cordial. I’m staying out of it and will show up when dates and times have been set. If I get invited, that is. Funerals do funny things to families, at least in my experience.
Right now it’s pretty quiet. It’s almost as if nothing happened. I guess that’s the result of “putting off a funeral”. It’s weird.
I mean, I know the world doesn’t stop for interruptions, but I think in this case ours should. It just feels wrong to delay this closure.

December 16th, 2009 by Sherry

December 13th, 2009 by Sherry

It’s going to be here before you know it. Are you ready??

December 10th, 2009 by Sherry

And she’s right.
I was at a meeting a few mornings ago and one of my single colleagues said, “I don’t know if I’d make a good parent.” and I replied, “Me either, and I’ve been trying for 17 years.”
The kids and I started family counselling last night. I won’t go into many details because I don’t want to make either of them uncomfortable, but I felt it was a necessary evil and really believe that it will decrease some of the family stress, and open some lines of communication.
When you leave your therapist’s office, you’re supposed to feel better. Why can’t I seem to do anything right? I left feeling worse.
Yes, I had a renewed sense that we can get through this bump in our road. Yes, I believe these therapy sessions will make a huge impact if we let them. Yes, I am thrilled that we started and wish we would of done it sooner.
You know that whole, “be careful what you wish for” dog bite? It has so many meanings.
I guess dragging your kids to therapy is the first start.
Preparing for what they have to say is another.