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BOOM - take that Saturday!
The new apartment is looking nice. We got bookcases last week. It transformed the living room. For the first time, Jeff and I combined book collections. We have them sorted into sections- fiction, YA fiction, comics, travel guides and literature, non-fiction economics, non-fiction lifestyle (ie biographies, garden books, etc), and non-fiction ( Read more... ) -
On loss and remembering
On my way to work, I normally listen to WBUR's On Point radio show, hosted by Tom Ashbrook. That guy has been my go-to morning commute program for over 4 years. Love him! Earlier this week, he had an hour about the best books of the past year. They started talking about a book that Jeff read, The Dog Star. I'm about a fifth or quarter of the way in ( Read more... ) -
What I UnFucked Today
I read Unfuck Your Habitat everyday. The before and after stories with pictures are motivating. Plus, the idea of 20/10s and 45/15s (I'm sure I've mentioned this before... deja vu) works for me.
Today, before Jeff and I embarked to IKEA, I cleaned the kitchen, washed dishes, cleaned some gross spots on the carpet, and vacuumed the main room of the ( Read more... ) -
Post-Thanksgiving
9 pies: pecan, apple, cranberry-apple, butternut squash (3), moon, blueberry, blackberry
2 ice creams (but same flavor)
1 cake: marie-helene's from around my french table by dorie greenspan ( Read more... ) -
Travel lust
Such beautiful photos on this blog! Makes me yearn for pretty older cities with fall colors. Simi Valley for whatever reason doesn't have many fall color trees. Thousand Oaks, where I work, makes up for it. My workplace has one of the best views in the Conejo Valley. I look out and see spots of yellow and red amongst the oak and other green-leafed -
Acccck fail at NaNoBloMo
I got an unexpected 48 hour break from the art center on Sunday. With yesterday off plus my usual late Tuesday start, I got another weekend!
Mostly time has been spent at home. I made a pie and an apple cake. Relaxed. Watch TV. Read books. Applied to jobs. Finally caught Prometheus on Amazon Instant. Even looked at a couple rental properties in our ( Read more... ) -
Jeff made a PIE
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A chocolate pudding pie!
From SCRATCH!
It was delicious. Instead of cream, he used tofu. Recipe was from Alton Brown. The crust was butter, sugar, and vanilla wafers.
Jeff also made a smootie with tofu. I tried one with tofu today. It taste similar to if I added yogurt. How weird! -
It's still true!
I went to bed with Barack Obama as my next president. When I got out of bed 10 minutes ago, Barack Obama was still my next president.
Supposedly, work (at least my artsy side of work that has all Democrats/left-leaners) is celebrating today with cake. -
I voted!
I dropped off my absentee ballot this afternoon at the polling place down the street. Even biked there instead of driving. Course, the choice was really bike v. my two feet. Finally took the car for an oil change + other stuff.
Besides voting for the president, I was excited to vote to reform California's 3 strikes law and repeal the death penalty -
NaNoBloMo
Yeaaaa day 4 of NaNoBloMo ( Read more... )