Tonight I made our last meal with the old oven. Since I couldn’t get to our local meat market, and the other meat in town is pretty gross, I made a pizza using this recipe for the crust. It was easy, quick, and good, as long as you can get past the fact that...
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Today I’ve spent a good portion of the day scraping paint mistakes off the floors, and getting the kitchen ready for our new oven, which should be arriving later. (SEE, God/Universe, I totally want the people who buy this house to live it up with a new stove and paint-free floors. Someone is going...
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I spent Mother’s Day scrubbing my kitchen walls and cabinets.
OK, that’s not entirely true. I woke up to breakfast and coffee, and cards and gifts. It was lovely. But then I remembered: THE HOUSE. It needs so much damn work. And the husband needed to go in to the office for...
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Look, it’s Mother’s Day, so I’m going to bail and play with my kids and husband. Here’s a video for anyone who was intrigued by the Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame which is less than half a mile from my house. It’s a charmed life I lead. Youse guys enjoy the jam session.
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For today’s blog post, I finally wrote my “about me” page. Click on it if you’re interested.
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I just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver) in preparation of a book club meeting.
The book details Kingsolver’s family’s move to their family farm, where they endeavor to live for one full year eating only food that is grown or raised...
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On April 3, 2003, I had a little adventure with my toddler and newborn while trying to hit a La Leche League meeting. Here’s the e-mail I sent afterward to my friend, Carol:
Today is a killer. Halfway to the meeting, I dropped my muffler; then I dragged it behind me for about seven miles.
After...
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I have a million things to do if we’re ever (you hear that? EVER) going to get this house on the market, so I’m using today, Monday, to plan for the week.
Here’s what I need to accomplish:
Sign the boys up for summer soccer here in town. Murphy’s Law says if I sign them up...
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Do you ever discover something, and you’re all excited, but then it turns out your friends–and everybody else in the world–already knew?
It happened to me (again) today when I discovered something about Neil Patrick Harris. No, it’s not that. I don’t live under a rock, for God’s sake. What I found out was that...
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After a whole lot of procrastinating, I finally signed up for the 2010 WordCount Blogathon. By joining, I’m agreeing to try to post to this blog every day during the month of May.
Reasons this is a bad idea:
Just signing up had me procrastinating. Like, before I even had to write anything, just sending in...
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