Got the tub fixed, turned out I only had to call my manager and she'd take care of it, by calling in the plumber. I came home, and it was all fixed, yay ( Read more... )

Slept OK,not fabulous as I kept waking up periodically and had three dreams,the first one was about moving, which was interesting as it involved 2 houses, the house my parents bought in 1985 with its huge dining room, and my childhood home ( Read more... )

Yes, have changed my banking accounts with USAA so they can draw from BECU, not Harborstone as it's closed out as of now ( Read more... )

And so another week has passed us by ( Read more... )

Well, not moving much until after 8AM but was up by 6AM, well, just shy of anyway and so far I've washed most of the dishes, vacuumed the kitchen floor with the dying Dustbuster, and moved the car to a more convenient spot as I don't intend to move it the rest of the weekend. Reason is tonight is the block party here on Capitol Hill and the ( Read more... )

Had breakfast a couple of hours ago, and have the stock on cooking, well, simmering on the stove. About 12 cups of water, plus the deglazed liquid that I put in a container last night is in the pot, and of course, the bones and aromatics, I just added salt, peppercorns, parsely etc to the pot, clamped the lid on, and it's been going for a while, ( Read more... )

Spent time making the stuffing for the tortelloni I'll put together today, but first, need to make the pasta dough so it can rest. I'll get onto that here momentarily, but not before I clean up the kitchen first ( Read more... )

Yes, didn't get to portfolio, nor the instruction manual but did get a couple of errands done yesterday, and today, ended up doing a bit of unexpected cleaning - and vacuuming, thanks to an errant egg shell that went behind the fridge. Glad I did as both the fridge, and stove needed to be pulled out and the area behind/beside, and under them needed ( Read more... )

Besides the usual things like, laundry, dishes etc, which I had to do both before could do breakfast, well, the dishes anyway as I could get the laundry going while I prepped/cooked, just stopping down long enough to move stuff from the washer to dryer when appropriate, and then haul back up the several flights of stairs when done ( Read more... )

And a quiet one, just watched the latest video from bandersonTV, where he showed us the latest on his Admiral TV he'd recently picked up, it's what appears to be a low hour set as it still has most, if not all of its original Admiral tubes in it. The set itself dates to the late 40's ( Read more... )