I ache everywhere. But the balcony is cleaner. At least there is almost no pigeon poop on the balcony. This was the big balcony weekend. I needed to clean the balcony of pigeon poop and get furniture and a grill. I haven't gotten the grill yet. I think that will be sometime next month. I haven't seen what I want. I'm in Atlanta next weekend and I ( Read more... )

I am not sure that it is possible for me to have two productive days in a row. Friday was very productive. I unpacked, got my network set up, made dinner. It was great. Yesterday was not quite as successful. I didn't sleep well and didn't really want to get up. I had made a list of things I had to do but never got in the mood to do any of them. I ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was a low key event this year. I spent it in the company of good friends. The food was great and there wasn't so much that we felt ill. Turkey and salad and roasted squash with shallots, onion poppyseed breadsticks, cranberry sauce with walnuts and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. Oh, and a nifty vanilla latte while watching Sentinel. ( ( Read more... )

I've gotten reasonably hooked on Heroes. I thought the save the cheerleader, save the world slogan was catchy and even made sense. I wasn't planning on watching this, or any television show, but I came in 20 minutes into the second episode and my friend Dave B. confirmed that this would be a show I would enjoy, so, I'm hooked.I like the idea of ( Read more... )

I wanted to do this now because I finished another book and since it's a library book, I wanted to review it and drop it off with all my other library books tomorrow morning.

Book #141, Slawter by Darren Shan. This is the 3rd book in the Demonata series. I liked this book because it dealt with familiar characters. But while there was certainly ( Read more... )

My parents are on their way back to Boston but they left me in possession of a home. When they arrived on Thursday, I couldn't count the number of boxes. For one thing, I couldn't see them all. On Friday, we were down to 45. Yesterday morning it was 25. I'm not box free. I have no place to put the boxes in the Master Bedroom. I've decided not to ( Read more... )

My parents and I worked for more than 8 hours and there are still too many boxes. But we did make a dent. In a lot of things. I've done another three boxes since I've been home from dinner. I'm done now. I'll do another one tomorrow before I meet my parents for breakfast ( Read more... )

I'm emptying a few boxes every day. I don't want to open boxes if I don't know where I am putting the contents. I have a huge pile of stuff on my sofa that I intend to donate. It will increase exponentially tonight as I try on more clothes. I kept a lot of hand-me-overs from my aunt that I really shouldn't have kept because I really won't wear them ( Read more... )

Remind me to burn it all next time. Or at least donate it all to some worthy cause ( Read more... )

I made dinner last night. I can count on one hand the number of times I have actually cooked since I moved out here. But I do have one non-stick pan and I know a few recipes for one-pan meals. One of my favorites is a white fish smothered in onions and stewed tomatoes. When I went to the market on Sunday night, they had cod. That wasn't what I ( Read more... )