obama held a press conference this morning and i saw part of it as i was climbing the Stairmaster to Nowhere.  i didn’t catch it all because my time was up and i was more than ready to leave the gym.  i just read something more about his economic team, and was delighted to read that HEATHER A. HIGGINBOTTOM is going to be the Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

not that i know exactly what the Domestic Policy Council does.  i looked it up online and i got to read the official WHITE HOUSE website, and the definition of the domestic policy council is basically that they deal with most domestic stuff.

not domestic stuff like cleaning your house or doing any baking or anything.  domestic like all the stuff in the whole country, which seems like a whole lotta stuff to me.

today i made some delicious banana bread.  usually i add some chocolate chips, but today i cut up a few mini reeses peanut butter cups that were left over from halloween.  the reason i still had them is because i’d kind of forgotten about them plus the bag was still UNOPENED.

now that the bag has been opened i feel that my only option is to dig a hole in the backyard and bury them there.

wouldn’t it be cool if you could grow a reeses peanut butter cup tree?

anyway, i guess i’m digressing slightly here – the REASON i’m enchanted with heather a higginbottom is because what a GLORIOUS NAME!  it sounds like the name in a kids’ book.

kevin made chili for dinner tonight.  it was delicious.  he seems to be on a serious cooking dinner path now that he’s retired, so that’s very good for me.

when i was a kid and first started writing in a diary, me entries mostly consisted of “we had chili for dinner tonight.  it was good.”

so perhaps this food fixation has been with me for quite a while.

ok then,

tuesday grace.