Author Archive
Monday, February 11th, 2008
H is for handbooks and chorewars.
I’d say the “C” is silent, but then it becomes Horewars, and that isn’t quite the connotation I’m looking for.
But this:
has become my new best housekeeper’s friend. Seriously.
I’m on the Reclaiming the Home team, from the blog and ravelry group (in the sidebar), and MAN…it is TOTALLY helping. At the time [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
G is for Garbage, in more ways than one.
Oh, folks. That poor kitchen of ours was in dire need of attention. Not that the REST of the house doesn’t need a bit of it, too, but the kitchen? Scary.
There was SO much stuff in there that wasn’t ours — stuff left behind by the previous tenants that was ‘gifted’ to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Keeping House by wife
Monday, January 28th, 2008
F is for Freezer
As in, “what’s in yours?”
I’d love to say I’m one of those people who has a bunch of Emergency Food all saved up and regularly rotated, just in case there’s a six-foot-of-snow blizzard or a massive flood that keeps us from the grocery store, but sadly, I’m not.
Right now, in my freezer(s), since we have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cooking, Musing by wife
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
in which we obsess, and answer E for everyday
I am obsessing.
And what I’m obsessing over isn’t even something all that important, since I have one of these already, just not this brand or type.
Oh, but seriously. I’m obsessing over a Typhoon Vintage loaf pan, after seeing a similar one on a blog I often read. And since I got a set [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cooking, Musing by wife
Friday, January 11th, 2008
D is for Donuts
Is this meme food obsessed or what?
I figured, since this is pretty much a yes or no, have you made them/no I have not answerable question (to which the answer is yes, by the way, I have, on several occasions), I’d expand this a little bit to kitchen gadgetry.
And the reason this leap in logic [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cooking, Musing by wife
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The catalog of Doom arrives, and C is for Cookie
So I was minding my own business today, when the new Sundance Catalog arrived.
I’ve talked before about my insane love of this catalog. Not that I order from it very often, since I’d probably have to take out a second mortgage on my kidneys to get what I want, but I’m inspired — a LOT [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cooking, Decoration by wife
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
B is for Baking
Yes, I know it’s been awhile since I managed to update. Christmas totally whipped my butt there for a while. And not because I was doing a whole lot of Christmasy Fun Stuff, either.
No, it’s because I foolishly thought that it would be a fun idea to handmake all my holiday gifts this year.
*facepalm*
Y’know how [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cooking, philosophy by wife
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Never One to Be Outdone: Aprons
This is a bad picture, I know. I apologize, greatly. The midwest has been under a ginormous cloud for about the past week and a half, and I was getting tired of waiting for sunlight to take pictures, so the picture above was taken without flash under a whole lot of indoor lights that make [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Keeping House, Musing by wife
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Liz’s Dream House
Somewhere, in the middle of the most reptilian part of my brain, I’ve got a notion of the Ideal House.
Most of the time, that notion is relatively well-behaved. It realizes that I only have so many hours in each day, and that if I have any hope of ever finishing any project EVER, I’ve got [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Keeping House, Musing by wife
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
losing some weight
I know it’s been a while. November is a traditionally-hectic month for my family. It’s the one time of the year where I’m making preparations for the holidays so that I can enjoy my December without that pressure to get everything done ALL AT ONCE.
So I do my holiday shopping during November, preferably [...]
