i'm taking a quick break from party preparation. i started out by cleaning the kitchen a bit, to prepare for cake-making and general snack-producing. i figured while i was at it i would weed out the nasty looking dead lilies from the HUUUGE bouquet that criss gave me for our anniversary. so i took the whole bouquet out, snipped off the dead ( Read more... )

simon screaming hissy fury at luna

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it's been a lovely weekend ( Read more... )

by the diet thing. some good cooking going on. tonight i made a lightly spiced brown rice with jerk tofu and a mango salsa. it was delicious!

lookit:

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tomorrow i start weight watchers.
i calculated my points for today, just for shits and giggles, and i was over by 7 points.
(of course, we don't often do diner brunches these days. and i certainly will be cooking healthier starting tomorrow. but sheesh!)

wish me luck.

these were growing in our schefflera plant's soil. i found a larger specimen on the floor of the living room earlier this week. were the kitties eating these? could they be the culprit in the recent poop epidemic? who knows. they're all growing right around the base of the plant itself, which makes me wonder if there's some kind of root rot ( Read more... )

we were having a perfectly lovely weekend until we got home from the jonathan coulton show last night. we opened the door to a horrorshow of poop smeared just about everywhere. the smell was overwhelming, and the carpets had to be cleaned in a million spots. blankets were laundered this morning. it was as if a poop monster was brutally ( Read more... )

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this morning i awakened from a dream that there was a zombie epidemic. i was in my mother's house, and locking it up as tight as i could. the one weak spot, i figured, was the inside basement door. there never was a real lock on it, only a hook and latch. so i drove nails around the edges into the wall and frame to try and make it more sturdy ( ( Read more... )