Josh and I went through our closet and filled a big box of clothes to go to Goodwill. I've been meaning to do this for a while, especially to my sweaters and button down shirts. I bought a bunch of them a few years ago when I needed to be more dressed up for work. And since I was in a hurry to get enough to wear everyday without doing laundry ( Read more... )

Spent some time sanding on the new table I got for work (it's quite a nice table except for where the previous owner spilled nail polish remover on it), which could have gone faster except I was short on course sandpaper and Josh was out with the car playing tennis. Nevertheless, I'm probably about half or more done with that.

Prior to that, All ( Read more... )

Home made laundry soap is even easier with a food processor. This, a great idea from Josh ( Read more... )

Josh and I cleaned up the office today. It's been a wreck since... oh, pretty much when we moved in. We also moved my (old) desk out of here into the library/sewing room and the love seat in to take it's place... since I'd rather compute on the love seat than at a desk. It's nice in hear now that it's clean and organized ( Read more... )

Our lock on our front door has been very stiff and hard to unlock since we moved in. Basically, it catches about 1/4 inch from unlocked, and it's really hard to get it that last 1/4 inch. It's a bit easier on the inside though, because you have more leverage. Shortly after we moved in, Josh put some WD40 on the shaft and in the keyhole, and that ( Read more... )

I just rendered 2 lbs of tofu for later use. Pressed it, cubed it, and froze it. According to "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" it is good that way. Apparently, since the water expands when it freezes, it forces itself out of the tofu and you get, like, super-pressed tofu. We shall see. Also, it seems actually pretty good plain and raw. I ( Read more... )

I think I've slept about 20 hours this weekend, and I'm starting to feel caught up on sleep. Yesterday, after I finally woke up, Josh plopped me down in front of his computer and made me play Portal, which was pretty fun. And in the mean time, he made breakfast, cleaned the apartment, and made dinner. Aww. I feel a lot less stressed for having ( Read more... )

This is why, every now and then, you want to go through all those important papers and sort them into a filing cabinet. Obscure reason #137:

Me: Hey, dear, isn't this an original of one of your time cards?
Josh: Looks that way.
Me: Doesn't that mean there was a week somewhere back there that you didn't get paid for?
Josh: Yep.I thought we had a ( Read more... )

Next time, don't wait until the night before to get online and find out that this is the last place where they actually require you to sort your curb side recycling. Sigh. And we really want them to take away all this varied packing material just as soon as possible ( Read more... )

We're in our new town house in Madison. We got in around 10pm on the 2nd, unloaded the car and the stuff Josh put in the truck on the 2nd, then went to bed (camping pads) around 11pm. Got up with the sun (our Northeast facing townhouse gets some lovely sunrising in the dinning room and bedroom #3), then proceeded to unload the truck. We took ( Read more... )