I'm thankful that we have most of the rest of the day to just flop! The humidity really takes it out of me.

I've been pulling up the remaining tack strips on the floor over the past few days. Still a couple of rooms to go, but it feels good to be making progress towards some respectable flooring. I've also renewed my wallpaper-stripping efforts and ( Read more... )

I took the night off from prison to deal with our basement, which has been utterly befouled by the cats. Andrew had been doing box-cleaning duty as of late, and (reasonably) assumed that the damp floor on either end of the basement was caused by the small amounts of water that sometimes seep in from the ground ( Read more... )

It hasn't been Andrew's week. He was violently ill on Tuesday, so I picked him up after a half day of work and put him straight to bed. Yesterday was stage 2 of the snow, and he spent a good while digging our alley out (against my protestations, for the record). Today, walking to catch the train in Trenton, he fell on his back and sprained his ( Read more... )

Breakfast casserole is in the crock pot; I'll turn 'er on around midnight and in the AM we'll have noms. I am seriously, truly loving this crockpot cookin'. We received ours as a wedding gift and I've used it sporadically, but in the past week I've been using it daily and just adore the variety of vegetarian goodness that you can create in it. They ( Read more... )

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I had the most amazing day today. We got some beneficial family news, to be discussed later, AND our new cleaning people are fantastic. I feel like I could eat off of the bathroom floor; that's how amazing it is. They quoted us $100 for a bi-weekly cleaning, which in our estimation is completely worth it. It will keep things basically as they are ( Read more... )

Today's Home Depot trek was quite productive. For slightly over $100 I was able to get a 6-foot Douglas Fir tree (wrapped and tied to my car, no less), a lovely jacquard tree skirt, a cast-iron tree stand, a nutcracker statue, two poinsettia plants, two more of the Glade Apple Cinnamon candles I'm addicted to, and a Swiffer Wet-Jet starter pack ( Read more... )