I’m sick. How I got a cold in August, I just plain don’t understand. I have the sore throat and sniffles, the body aches and the irritated skin. Of course, this would happen on an incredibly busy week for me. I work in Young Women’s now (again – this must just be where I belong.) […]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures #4
August 7, 2007
A wonderful part of living in San Diego? Costco carries flats of Coke imported from Mexico. This means that they not only come in a bottle (everything should come in a bottle – it gets colder and tastes way better) but they are made with real sugar – not corn syrup. Wicked good stuff.
[Continue reading...]Summer Chopped Salad
August 3, 2007
I have been having a total nightmare of a time trying to find stuff to cook. My kitchen is still paint project central, our garbage disposal has decided to give up the ghost, and all of my cookbooks are packed. Then there is the additional problem of being married to the king of meat and […]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures #3
August 1, 2007
Ah, freshly made Dilly Bars, how I love you. Our local Dairy Queen seems to be having some issues. Their main freezer is broken so they can’t do any cakes (and oh man a dairy queen ice cream cake with the carmelly crunchy center is just one of the very best things a person can […]
[Continue reading...]Mean-spirited Dilettantes
July 31, 2007
That was the subject line from a piece of spam I got this morning, and I found it oddly appropriate. My wallet got stolen over the weekend. Well, to be more specific, every single form of payment was stolen over the weekend. My wallet is just fine. And in an either oddly considerate/completely ignorant move, […]
[Continue reading...]Reining in the chaos
July 30, 2007
Now that we’ve finally, Finally, FINALLY, managed to finish up enough of the projects to pick all the protective paper up off the floor, I’m trying to claim control back over my life and surroundings. For my branch of OCD, that means lists and more lists, and then lists of all the lists. With the […]
[Continue reading...]Round 1 is done!
July 27, 2007
We did it. We finished the first batch of painting. We’re exhausted. I’ve spent the past few days just trying to clean everything up after the disaster we’ve been living in for the past three months. Now it’s finally to a point that I feel ready to share. The pictures came out super dark because […]
[Continue reading...]I’m the Guys
July 26, 2007
This house turned out to be way way more of a fixer upper than we had any idea. We thought we’d slap a coat of paint on the place and be done. Then there was two months of wallpaper removal, replastering stairs, mold issues, windowsill repair, plumbing to be fixed, priming, and finally, finally, finally, […]
[Continue reading...]Spicy Baked Beans, just in time for the 4th…oops.
July 25, 2007
I’ve had a note to myself to write about this for weeks. Oops. But hey, the summer’s not over yet, surely we’ll all have more BBQ’s and picnics that call for yummy baked beans. If not, well hey, the note is not going to keep till next year. We spent the 4th up at Bear’s […]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures #2
July 24, 2007
I’m not a fan of most of our landscaping. I’m actually not a fan of a lot of Southern California landscaping, because so much of it consists exclusively of palm trees and birds of paradise. Our backyard right now is a random mix of a million tiny palm trees, some tall grassy things, the obligatory […]
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