a couple nights ago i made a quiche and my bathroom still smells a little bit like sauteed onions. (it's off the kitchen and the door is right next to the stove.) i'm not complaining, but it's kind of weird to be washing your face and smelling onions on the (clean! washed! tumble-dried with a dryer sheet!) washcloth ( Read more... )

this morning i watched probably half of cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 which is FULL of food puns. over the closing credits they showed a matzo ball bull with carrots for horns, and a (human) matador with a red cape, in the matzo bowl. i shrieked with glee and almost fell off the couch. it's a very cute movie. i mean, the characters ( Read more... )

a week ago i switched my landline from verizon to comcast and yesterday there was no dial tone, and when i called from my cell i got a message saying the number was disconnected. after two phone calls, six customer service agents, and probably an hour talking to people, being put on hold, and getting transferred, i got an appointment with a tech ( Read more... )

on friday i went kayaking with work - all of us in the office are split into community practice groups (or practice community groups, i'm never sure), which are basically social groups for doing fun stuff during work hours. and the fun stuff on friday was kayaking on the charles river, with a stop at a bar for snacks and drinks afterwards. ( Read more... )

it's so hot i took two - count 'em - cold showers today. i was all hot and bothered and it wasn't even the fun kind of hot and bothered. hmph, i say. hmph.

on the other hand, a nice cold shower is blissyesterday my sister and i went to ikea so i could theoretically buy a display cabinet thing (and i drove because, well, it wasn't five hours). ( Read more... )

today is my sister's birthday. everyone wish her a happy. :D not sure how she feels about dancing boys, tho. she had a party saturday night, hosted by one of her work friends at his loft - it was a niiiiice place - and some of our cousins came! which is always fun. my sister has a camp friend she's known for like thirty years, and the friend ( Read more... )

first, happy birthday to locknkey! long-time beta reader and fixer of my crappy bigbang first drafts. this calls for cake! and maybe cute boys covered in frosting. :D ( Read more... )

i hope the americans in the audience (and i think the canadians?) are enjoying their labor day, courtesy of those swell folks who brought you the weekend. it's really freakin' hot out here but i think i can feel a cool breeze and i kind of want to go out in it. but hot ( Read more... )

yesterday my sister and i went to ikea (she got a lamp and two chairs and some picture frames, and i got, uh, a couple glasses, because i keep breaking mine) and on the way home i mentioned that flowers in the attic was on tv and we spent some quality time trying to remember the titles of all the books and what happened in them, and she made me ( Read more... )

haven last night was, uh, well, duke is still cute. :D (this does not count as a spoiler. he has a ponytail this season! it's ADORABLE.) i inherited a flatscreen tv from drglam when she moved, so last night she helped me get it out of the trunk of my car. and in exchange i drove her home. now i just need to get rid of the old tv. anyone want an ( Read more... )