The fiber artists among my readers will know that SABLE stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. For you muggles (those who don’t knit or crochet), I will further explain that I myself have achieved SABLE. It’s exactly what it sounds like. My yarn stash has grown to such proportions that even if I knit or crochet for several hours every day for the rest of my life, I will never get through it all.

Ahhhh, comfort food. Is there anything better? And here in the good old US of A, I would posit that macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food.

Once upon a time, I only needed to look forward to chapped and peeling lips in the winter. And then in the fullness of time, it became a year-round affliction.

I love bananas. Especially in a dessert. Banana bread. Banana cream pie. And banana cake. I particularly like quick and easy banana cake, using a box mix and some canned cream cheese frosting. Super easy, and a respectful way to deal with the inevitable buildup of very ripe bananas, as I always buy more than I can eat.

When the X-Files came out in the 90s, I wanted to love it. I really did. And I felt like I should have. But I didn’t. It was icky and creepy and most importantly, I didn’t actually like or care about the characters.

I love vanilla. I love it more than chocolate. No, that’s not right. I love it as much as chocolate. I mean, I love it almost as much as chocolate.

If you haven’t read Part 1, then do that before starting this post.

I’ve often thought that if a reader can be introduced to certain amazing children’s stories as a child, they experience it in a deep way that is not possible if they wait until they are adults before reading the story for the first time. Case in point: C.S. Lewis’ famous book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

A day without chocolate is like…well, I must confess that I don’t actually know what a day without chocolate is like.

There are many lovely websites (and YouTube channels) devoted to utterly beautiful and artistic bullet journals. This is not one of those websites.

A cream pie in the face is…well, it’s quite frankly a criminal waste of a cream pie.

In my modest fabric stash (if by “modest” you understand that I mean it is not overflowing the containers I put it in), I recently found a jelly roll I’d forgotten about.

What is pollinosis? Well, that would be the medical term for hay fever. Seasonal allergies. Allergic rhinitis. Thank you, thesaurus.com.

I love the wizarding world and the Harry Potter books. I remember starting the series in 2000. I brought the first book to work (at a job where I worked nights and had a fair amount of free time) and finished it before the end of my shift.

When I was a child, on Sundays after church the whole family would head off to Elmer’s for Sunday brunch.  Of course, we didn’t call it brunch back then…it was just breakfast that we ate at lunchtime.

My family loves to play Rummy-O.  If you’ve never played, it’s similar to the card game Rummy, only played with tiles.

Look at this face.  Does this look like the face of a tick magnet?

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