the beat goes on
I need potato recipes, please. I have a small bag of yukon gold that will form the base of my next 5 dinners, but I have no idea what to do with them. (Two caveats: no cheese, please. And if the recipe includes the phrase "move the potatoes from the double boiler to the chafing dish," you've lost me. Twice.)
This past week's accomplishments include boiling perfect hardboiled eggs (go, me) and making an omelet without cheese. My definition of a plain omelet is an omelet with cheese. In fact, if I were on Family Feud and the question were "ingredients for an omelet," I would name cheese before eggs. This is a major cheese-free breakthrough.
You know what I'm going to miss about video tapes? Commercials. I'm going through a small pile of tapes that has been sitting on top of my VCR/DVD player stack for two years: one of them contains second-season Smallville episodes recorded from broadcast. The tape is destined for the trash, but just sitting through the commercials has teleported me back 8 years. Funny how a show's content doesn't seem to do that.
Thanks to your support during Monday's decluttering breakdown, I was able to dive into the two keeper boxes and discover that not all of the books were untouchable. I still have one keeper box left, and that's one more than I wanted, but work continues. I've come to realize that the decluttering just isn't going to happen in one big effort, even though I like the kind of results I see when I do a major cleaning over a weekend. I'm just too prone to stall out. However, rather than sweep these boxes back into the closet so I can reclaim my living room, I'm resigned to leaving them out while I clear drawers and cabinets in the hopes of finding more space for books in the process.
I'm also considering replacing the old TV in my bedroom with a small HDTV. I only moved the old TV in there because I had a redundant DVR, DVD player, and VCR after the great electronics purchase of 2008. It has no live signal and neither would a new TV, but I kind of like having a playback device. What I don't like is the SIZE of the old TV. It's easily 2 feet deep.
This past week's accomplishments include boiling perfect hardboiled eggs (go, me) and making an omelet without cheese. My definition of a plain omelet is an omelet with cheese. In fact, if I were on Family Feud and the question were "ingredients for an omelet," I would name cheese before eggs. This is a major cheese-free breakthrough.
You know what I'm going to miss about video tapes? Commercials. I'm going through a small pile of tapes that has been sitting on top of my VCR/DVD player stack for two years: one of them contains second-season Smallville episodes recorded from broadcast. The tape is destined for the trash, but just sitting through the commercials has teleported me back 8 years. Funny how a show's content doesn't seem to do that.
Thanks to your support during Monday's decluttering breakdown, I was able to dive into the two keeper boxes and discover that not all of the books were untouchable. I still have one keeper box left, and that's one more than I wanted, but work continues. I've come to realize that the decluttering just isn't going to happen in one big effort, even though I like the kind of results I see when I do a major cleaning over a weekend. I'm just too prone to stall out. However, rather than sweep these boxes back into the closet so I can reclaim my living room, I'm resigned to leaving them out while I clear drawers and cabinets in the hopes of finding more space for books in the process.
I'm also considering replacing the old TV in my bedroom with a small HDTV. I only moved the old TV in there because I had a redundant DVR, DVD player, and VCR after the great electronics purchase of 2008. It has no live signal and neither would a new TV, but I kind of like having a playback device. What I don't like is the SIZE of the old TV. It's easily 2 feet deep.