Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Alone Again
I’m home alone again at the moment. J’s been gone for just over a day, and luckily will be back tonight. Which, of course, means I need to feed him, and I’m just NOW getting my tail into gear. I’m smelling a grocery-store run in the very near future.
For the record, we’ll be out of [...]
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
All About the House
The one, singular thing that I did while my husband was gone this past week was to take this wall, above, and turn it from white, pockmarked craziness into a slightly-khaki-tannish bit of loveliness. That strip at the left, was my test, checking to make sure it wasn’t going to go orange on me, which [...]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
the weeklong festival of mucous
Well, that kind of sucked.
The very second my husband went out of town, my voice started acting wonky. And since my other job requires my voice, I had a little bit of an inner squee, thinking that I’d have lots of time to work on the house. I mean, after all, you can’t [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Two Very Quick Notes of…well…note.
Remember how I said I loved the new vacuum?
Yesterday, I finally ventured downstairs with it. (I’ve had it upstairs, deep vacuuming the bedrooms and hallways and office spaces that were knee-deep in dog hair. It’s been an uphill battle, really, and even though I’d gone over them once a day every other day, I was [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
my own weekly recap #1
I wish I had fabulous pictures for you today, but out where we live, there’s been a string of dreary days with very little sun and torrential rains, and my camera…? Does not like flash. Turns a perfectly lovely picture into a washed-out, overexposed bit of digital celluloid. So rather than scare [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
my life, my choice
Okay, this just royally pissed me off.
I’m a big fan of blogs, and of the ideas they give me. I don’t expect, ever, to be one of those types of women who can bake a pie with one hand while planting tulip bulbs with the other. I would LIKE to be, because I [...]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
bonus: OMG, dinner - Quicken Cordon Bleu
I almost forgot — I put dinner in the crock-pot today, and it was fabulous and easy. So I thought I’d share.
The basic recipe is from a Gooseberry Patch cookbook, but I modified it a little to be a little tastier.
Chicken Cordon Bleu via Crock Pot
serves 4 to 6
ingredients:
4-6 chicken breasts
1 can [...]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
dancing with the sun
Let’s talk for a second about the Sundance Catalog site and catalog, shall we?
I’m not a big catalog shopper. And I’m really not into the type of “country” decorating that makes use of lots of little pastel pink geese or delft blue flowered wallpaper. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with it, but it’s just [...]
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
gettin’ domestic
I have a love/hate relationship with Flylady.
On one hand, I’m a giant slob. Or, at least, I have been a slob in my life. I’m more of a Recovering Slob now. (And one that’s been thrown into a five thousand square foot house full of dirt, no less. It’s got the potential for a bad, [...]
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
A Little Apple Science
Someone told me once that whereas cooking is an art, baking is a science. You utilize chemistry and knowledge of how things will react when subjected to heat, and instead of being improvisational (like cooking), you’re tied to a certain combination, measured in teaspoons and cups. At least you are in [...]
