I know, I know, I just came back! But I'm going on an incredibly COOL vacation that I just had to share with everyone. :D

Clicky clicky!

SO excited. And if all goes well, maybe I'll come back with a Doctor-and-Rose-in-the-Med story for ya, hm? :D

Hey folks! *dusts off a chair, sits down* Been a while. Wow. I could really stand to dust in here, huh ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, at long last, I can say the words I've been wanting to say for four months:

I own a home.

Yes, indeed, I actually signed the papers today. I own the condo in which I currently sit. Well, the bank and I do. But still! No more rent--I'm paying into my own equity!

Wow. WOW. How cool is that?? :D

I unpacked a couple boxes and found my shoes!! I've been wearing the same pair of shoes since Oct. 28th, because I thought it would only be a couple of weeks until we closed the loan. (For the record, we STILL haven't closed. I'm only living here because I'm renting from the seller until closing.) But yay for shoes! My feet are much happier ( Read more... )

I made a double-batch of pumpkin bread, which I poured into two loaf pans and baked in the same oven at the same time for the same *amount* of time. The only difference was a scattering of walnuts on top of one of the loaves. At the end of an hour, one was done in the center; the walnut one wasn't. (And I didn't notice until later, when the center ( Read more... )

I'm trying not to turn into Suzie Homemaker, but damn, with a nice kitchen it's hard not to! I'm in full-on bake mode. I've got two loaves of pumpkin bread cooling on the counter, and once they're ready to come out of the loaf pans, I'm going to get started on some almond butter cookies. Tomorrow I'll be making the sauce for our Christmas lasagna, ( Read more... )

Happy Yule to my Pagan friends. Here comes the sun! (Which is nice to think about at a time of year when it's totally dark by 4:30....)

Dear bread dough ( Read more... )

This is TWO DAYS IN A ROW I have posted. And two days in a row I have read my flist! I only (!) went back to skip=200 yesterday, so if you posted anything prior to, oh, the 17th, I missed it. (Starting back around February-ish, that is.) Anything you want me to see? Linky linky ( Read more... )

So it's only been nearly a month since my last post. Been a bit busy, honestly. Too much has happened for a detailed explanation, so I'll give you the short version.

( Cut to be kind, because even the short version is hella long. )