It's been a very long week, and work has been weird, and I found myself needing a mental break at one point and decided to look up recipes that used sweetened condensed milk. Post-pandemic, when my father had run out of coffee creamer, my mother insisted we get a can of sweetened condensed milk to keep on hand for him to use for creamer. So we did ( Read more... )

With the family room devoid of furniture, it seemed like a good time to get the carpet cleaned. I mean, okay, I'm nervous about letting a stranger into the house, but Stanley Steemer seems like it takes good precautions to keep their employees and customers safe, and we'd like to put the house back together at some point. Mom made an appointment ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

In the past two days, I've cleaned all the bathrooms, vacuumed most of the house, done the wood floors, dusted in the family room*, cleaned the kitchen counters, and baked a pie. No wonder I'm tired. And this is in addition to making dinner both days, though sticking fish in the oven and microwaving vegetables for last night wasn't particularly ( Read more... )

My Latin teacher would be very disappointed in me ( Read more... )

This was one of those things I couldn't pass up posting. An acquaintance of mine--no, none of you knows this person--somehow acquired a special pie. This person has access to a bakery, and for some crazy reason it was decided to take an apple pie and put bacon on it ( Read more... )

Every few weeks, dad makes a Sam's run for cigarettes and whatever other bulk items we might need. Every so often he'll buy paper products, and he'll usually pick up bottled water for my mother. This time, we needed laundry detergent. And pie. Pie is a running joke in my family, so pretty much any time someone has to run to the store, or just ( Read more... )

My mother had to work yesterday, and for whatever reason decided to call my grandmother. The phone rang and rang and rang. Unusual, since grandma set up her machine to pick up on the first or second ring. Mom was concerned, so after she got off work she called and said she was going to run over and see if she was home, and either asked me to ( Read more... )

Or, the adventures of mom, Jen, and the magic tote bag of fun! I know you're excited.

Today was a busy, busy day. It's my parents' anniversary, so I knew there was an excellent chance of something special regardless, and then mom and I decided to head up to Long Grove today. Oh, there was fun to be had; I'll cut the rest of the entry because I ( Read more... )

Yesterday was our monthly birthday celebration for work. Since HRA's birthday is this month (it's today), she decided we were to have pie. Mmm, pie. My father was so jealous. ;) And the pies went over well; we had banana cream, coconut cream, French silk, and French apple. I'd wanted the coconut, but that went quickly. I ended up with the ( Read more... )