passel /n./ an indeterminately great amount or number. a lot. multiplicity. a great deal. abundance. profusion. jillion. ream. heap. peck.
passel /n./ 1. I have a passel of posts in my head. I told David that I might as well just give up. He told me it's only been four days since my last post, that I can't be that far behind. He has (luckily) never been inside my mind. He'd be shocked at how much my brain can produce in four days time. And most of it crazy.
passel /n./ 2. This week I had my one year blogiversary. (I meant to do a whole post on it, but I had a peck of things to catch-up on after returning from Houston and Halloween stole the rest of the week.) There are so many things I love about this milestone, not the least of which is the passel of daily, seemingly ordinary moments that make up my life, now real and recorded, forever. Because of this blog I have more photos, I am more introspective, I am more kind (even to myself), I am more aware of my present, and I have fewer regrets. That's a passel of reasons to keep going.
passel /n./ 3. I had a great time at Quilt Market with my aunt and my mom and felt (above all) extremely useful, which is, occasionally, a really nice feeling to have. I came home with a passel of new projects and ideas and handmade Christmas gift ideas. Now I just need a passel of free hours to get to them.
passel /n./ 4. My favorite moment of the Halloween festivities this week came on Wednesday when Ethan and I went hunting for four perfect pumpkins among the passels of them at our local farmer's market. We had a little carving party on Thursday night. My parents came for dinner, and as payment we required them help one of the kids clean out and carve their pumpkin. Divide and conquer, as it were. My mom wondered out loud how she did it with nine of us. I always wonder that. No matter the subject. We had pumpkin pie for dessert (Ethan's idea) which turned out to be the perfect ending.
passel /n./ 5. My children celebrated Halloween this week (a separate post altogether), and I celebrated it being over. Now I just have a passel of candy that I need to discretely get rid of. Usually I just let my kids eat themselves sick for two days and have done with it, but this year they got so much, we've still got a giant bowl full. I'm already tired of the wrappers, the smashed-in goo, and the chocolate fingerprints around my house. Really, I just don't get the point of it at all. Boo.
passel /n./ 6. David and I have been sick for the last couple of days. Nothing serious. Just complete fatigue, sore throats, headaches. But feeling bad enough to require a passel of naps. I was in and out of consciousness all afternoon yesterday. During these naps I had a passel of disconcertingly bad dreams, one yesterday that is still haunting me and may have been the worst I've ever had, and one today which was all about the word "ascribed." (Yes, really.) I'm finally feeling a bit better, (David thinks this is all due to the medicine he force fed me) but I'm now filled with dread and that slightly panicky feeling that I've lost more hours than I'll ever be able to make up.