I have made candy!  They are in the freezer hardening, which is probably the only reason I haven't eaten all of them already, because OM NOM NOM pretzels+peanut butter+chocolate!  It's salty and sweet and crunchy and creamy ALL AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!

I have made adorable mini-cards for Halloween.  I cannot tell you how very much in love I am with ( Read more... )

On the slightly less disasterous - but still fucking annoying in the face of everything else that's happened today - front ( Read more... )

 

• Salads were out and wilting when we arrived.
• We ate the salads, they cleared the plates.
• They handed out baskets of rolls... and no new plates.  We ate the bread off the tablecloth.
• There were cans of pop on the table on the wall opposite us.  By the time my table got there, there was nothing but Mountain Dew.  In the cans.
• Other than the pitcher of ( Read more... )

Especially for one where I haven't done a whole lot.

• Marlee Matlin tweeted this today: Marlee Matlin ‏@MarleeMatlin
Our new Havanese puppy (as of yet unarmed - that will be at a family meeting tonight) has arrived!!!
She then tweeted to say that the autocorrect got the better of her, but I love the idea of having a ( Read more... )

• I get groceries from Peapod about once a month.  Mostly big heavy things I don't want to lug up my bazillion stairs.  Once in a while, usually in the spring, I a.) realize that I could stand to lose a few pounds and b.) remember that I can eat jicama strips like potato chips.  So today I had Peapod bring me a jicama, since they had them on sale ( Read more... )

So there are three grocery retailers I have regular interaction with ( Read more... )

So last night, even after I posted, I slept from about 6 to 7, got up, took the ferrets out for a while, put the ferrets back, fell asleep again around 8, woke up at 9 because I wasn't in pajamas and really needed to be and was asleep again by 9:30 ( Read more... )

Stuff made in my kitchen today ( Read more... )

• I have officially had Hawaiian Shaved Ice. Verdict? I don't get it. It's a snowcone. Color me unimpressed. I would like to know how many they went through in that H50 episode with Kono and the kid whose dad didn't kill her mom. It's roughly Hawaii weather in Chicago right now - 85ish and humid - and mine melted in less than ten minutes ( Read more... )

Okay, so once I started thinking about making turtles I hit OMG WANT of turtles really, really badly ( Read more... )