I’m not depressed. Not exactly. I just miss my dad. He would have been so proud of me and the work I’ve done in my kitchen the last couple of weekends. This morning I was thinking about our Christmas traditions. For the last few years my family has done a white elephant gift exchange. It’s […]
I have a new web site. I will get to updating stuff on it, if not today, then once vacation starts. I have a new fridge and gas range and they’re so pretty! I have a new phone (DROID) that I adore. I have finished chapter 12. Sometime this week I will start writing chapter
I made chicken stock earlier in the week — basically, take the bones from one of those little rotisserie chickens, throw them in a pot with some white wine, water, spices and herbs, then simmer for 5-6 hours. Today, I made stew. It’s another lazy recipe: brown some stew beef, then throw that with a
Today I start the mini-remodel of my kitchen. I was supposed to start it yesterday, but the handyman who was supposed to help me couldn’t get here (the cold killed his car.) It was just as well — the night before had been my company holiday party, and I seriously over-indulged. I have many plans
My niece had her baby! Noah! 7lbs 13oz. 20.5 inches. 5:05am 12/10/2009. Perfect, healthy and happy. I’ve been haunting Facebook to see when she went into labor — must have been late last night. Friday I’m having someone come in and help me start doing a mini-remodel of my kitchen — taking out the existing
Recently realized that I don’t really have the concept of heaven in my trilogy. There’s a hell, that’s more of a ‘working through shit’ place (that characters visit. More than one hell, more than one character.) There are the palaces of the gods, their courts, which again, characters visit. And there’s the concept of reincarnation
I had a post ready for yesterday. I wrote it up before I started working on the novel. But I just didn’t actually feel like posting it. So I’m doing this today instead. On Sunday I got together with a couple of people and we had a marbling party — where we marbled paper. I’ve
Yeah, I’m doing day job work today. I was supposed to do it yesterday, but spent the day figuring out the new configuration for my kitchen instead. I’m not too bothered. I’m doing fairly easy stuff today, and only for a few hours. One of the things that I keep running into is that while
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My fridge hasn’t been working 100% for quite some time. Sometime last night if finally decided to give up. Of course, at that time, it was stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving leftovers. ::sigh:: As it was still cool, and everything was cool to the touch, I moved all the food to a neighbor’s fridge,
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To those of you who celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful day! My pumpkin pie is already in the oven. Once it’s finished, I’ll get on the exercise bike for a while, and at least pretend that it will make a difference in regards to the feast I’ll consume later today.