I'm posting to prove I'm alive and to indicate how domestically nerdy I've gotten. This month I've put up ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse"Bread and Bombs" M. Rickert ( Read more... )

So I made dumplings (Asian style) tonight for the first time ever. Why on earth has no one ever told me how easy they are? Ok, fine, I've read things and maybe heard one or two of you mention it, but I had no idea how truly simple they are. You take some squishy filling and dump it in the middle of a wonton skin. Wrap the sides up, steam it, ( Read more... )

I'm still here and alive. I made a tiny wristlet purse thing, embroidered and everything. Maybe someday I'll post pics. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Work is busy. I need a real vacation, though. I'm getting fed up with the paperwork and the bureaucracy. Home is good. We need to pick up the living room (still!), and the place ( Read more... )

We got a some new furniture this weekend. A woman was giving (!?!) it away in the stlouis community, and I was all "I love free stuff." So mangledpuppies and I picked it up yesterday. There's a dining table (with pads and leaves), four chairs, a china cabinet, and a large dresser. So much that we had to call jerad_w since my puny arms wouldn't carry it all up our stairs ( Read more... )

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*I ate breakfast with a few friends at Three Monkeys. Easily the best meal we've had there. Not overcrowded, not too loud, good service, good food. I'll definitely be back for morning meals in the future.

*Hit up Local Harvest for some foods. Got some stripey beets (yum!) and some turnips and some grains, mostly. I love roots and all, but man ( Read more... )

I just ate one of the best sandwiches I've ever had. Shredded turkey (mixed with chopped onion, dried cranberries, mayo, horseradish, grain mustard) on toasted multigrain bread, with basil leaves and some cheddar-ish cheese. Yummy ( Read more... )

We ate T-Day dinner at mangledpuppies's mom's house, but I really wanted some turkey of my own. Because of this, last month I ordered from Local Harvest Grocery a fancy pants 14lb turkey raised locally, organically, and humanely (assuming you even believe that eating meat can be humane). On Tuesday before T-Day, I went to pick it up. They handed me a turkey ( Read more... )

So I'm making a Simple Knitted Bodice for National Knit a Sweater Month (long sleeved, of course). I began rather late in the day on 1Nov, since we were out partying until about 5:30a that morning (yay for Halloween in NOLA!). At this point I'm done with the majority of the body, and I'm super happy with it. It fits beautifully. The only ( Read more... )