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What's in the bag?
My dedicated diaper bag that I've used for the past 2+ years is dirty and worn, with the faux leather losing its shiny coating. I don't need to haul around so many diapers anymore, so I'm switching back to a real leather tote. It's an unusual opportunity for me to review exactly what I'm carrying.
My bag contained:- four diapers, small pack of wipes, ( Read more... )
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Cooking notes for future reference: meatsauce
Components:- 1 pound ground meat, in this case, extra-lean turkey
- 1 pound Italian sausage without casing, in this case, mild
- 1 can pasta sauce, 24 oz. garlic & herb
- 2 6 oz. cans tomato paste (next time go with 1 12 oz. can)
- Salt
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Not simple living
Browsing Apartment Therapy in between clearing away dirty dinner dishes.
Article by-line is "4 People, 500 Square Feet: How We Make It Work." Item #1 is "Start by getting rid of almost everything you own."
Promoted story under the article is "Every Woman Should Have These 10 Pieces of Jewelry" from Macys.com.
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Asynchronous
The only real times I have free to compose blog posts, I'm not in the right headspace for it. I think I might be able to write right now, but considering that it's 12:30 AM and I have to take the kiddo to school tomorrow, staying up any later isn't wise. Suffice to say I'm feeling down.
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Hi I'm alive
Had baby #2 last April and basically stopped with the LJ since then. Kept up with Facebook, largely because Facebook has an Android app. Will try to get back to journaling this year. It's good for me, after all.
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Life in a nutshell
Since last November, I have:- December - Moved, with child and dog, across the country to return to our old location of 2011
- March - Moved back across the country to the same state where we lived in 2012, two hours' drive away from my parents' house
- April - Had a baby (another boy)
- July - Traveled some thousand miles to visit my grandmother, together ( Read more... )
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Adventures of the subconscious
Dramatic chase dreams last night. The first was creepy, but in the second one, my cab driver was a protoceratops from one of the outer boroughs. He was also the form of transportation. It was a sort of school/mobster/dimension jumping mash-up: organized crime had taken over school administration and joined forces with the dinosaur mafia, so they ( Read more... ) -
Going shampoo-free: a question for the chemists
I've been doing the no-shampoo thing for about a month. I cut my hair boyishly short over the summer, and I thought it was a good opportunity to try this method of cleaning my hair with baking soda solution and apple cider vinegar solution. I was a little apprehensive about the baking soda and used only two teaspoons instead of three teaspoons ( ( Read more... ) -
Two links
First, an example of how our democracy isn't working properly. Reuters: New homes burn faster, but states resist sprinklers NEW YORK (Reuters) - In Scottsdale, Arizona, any new home must come equipped with fire sprinklers, a decades-old rule lauded by fire safety advocates nationwide. But 12 miles away in Phoenix, city officials are not even ( Read more... )