I signed up for belly dancing and for a Feisty Girls Writing Workshop ( Read more... )

I had been looking and looking and looking for one of those jar lifter-outer things used in canning. Never could find one. Searched high and low. So I had to resort to using tongs to lift jars out once they were sterilized and then again once they were done with their water bath. This all should have been caught on camera. It wasn't funny at ( Read more... )

I made butter! Oh, yes, I did! Just now. How did you do that?! I hear you all asking in awe. It was pretty tough. First, I skimmed the delectable cream from the delicious milk. Then I beat the crap out of it. Wahlah! Butter! I am so excited! Yes, I am this excited over butter!

In other kitchen counter-along-the-wall news, I started a ( Read more... )

If LJ, for some reason, decided everyone could only have ten friends on their friends list, I wonder who would be on everyone's friends list. More importantly, would it include me? I think I would be as LJ friendless as I am friendless in real life. I amuse myself a great deal, but I just cannot imagine that I amuse anyone else ( Read more... )

As if all of my posts aren't, this is a rather long mundane-to-others,-I'm-sure post (it's also a bit image-heavy). ( So I'll tuck it behind a cut. )

About a year ago, I decided I was not a mixed-media sort of gal and would never use the fancy papers and postcards and whatnots I had for that purpose. I offered them up on freecycle and they were snatched within minutes. About a week ago, I was lamenting the fact that I had let those fancy papers and postcards and whatnots go. I had become a ( Read more... )

You've successfully miraculously made it through one year of life.


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