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Rats = <3
Meander's kid has a pet rat now, named Girled Cheese (because she's a girl, get it? hehe), and I am completely enamored by her, and now I want a pair of rats. Or a trio, after a bit of research yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Meals on a Budget Ideas
There was a huge thread on a facebook group where someone asked for inexpensive recipes/meal ideas for her family of 3, and people threw out a million suggestions. I copied the ones I found most helpful to compile into one place, and here's what I got!
Links:
Good and Cheap Cookbook
Budgetbytes.com
Cooking on a Bootstrap
Mashup MomMeal Ideas ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol // Literary Prize Fight - Week 9 ~ Sucker Punch
Even after I was told I had OCD, I didn't exactly understand what it meant. It's a complicated disorder, plus I was only 7 years old. I just knew I was the weird kid who took five times as long to complete worksheets, mostly due to re-reading the instructions to make sure I did everything just right. Even reading and re-reading instructions and ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol // Literary Prize Fight - Week 3 : Tsundoku
Moving really tests your dedication to your things. As you slide a mattress atop a wheeled dolly, and shakily wobble it across a parking lot, and remember you needed to get the dresser in first, sometimes you just sigh, lean the mattress against the truck, and go get the dresser, half hoping someone just steals the goddamn thing so you never have ( Read more... ) -
recipe from a friend of mine
3 cups fresh baby spinach, 3/4 cup chopped broccoli florests, 10 sliced baby heirloom tomatoes, 1/3 c sliced mushrooms, (the veggies wilt and shrink down quite a bit), 1 cup campanelle pasta, 2/3 cup shredded chicken breast (leftover from the rotisserie chicken from a couple days ago), a Roman amount of olive oil, sundried tomatoes, basil, 2 TB ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Minor - Week 4
Once upon a time, there were two friends playing. They're friends at school, and they're at recess. Then they went through the whole school day together. Then it was the end of the day and they said "goodbye." After they said goodbye, they went home.
The End
Prompt: Goodbye
written by Homer, age 7
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LJ Idol Minor - Week 3
Once upon a time, there was a guy walking to the store. And then he saw something that was twelve thousand dollars. It was the best Beyblade. What made it so special was that it had max of every stat, which means max attack, max defense, max weight, and max stamina. So the guy was sad until he realized he had twelve thousand dollars! So he got ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Minor - Week 2
Once upon a time, there was a kid sitting in his bed. He was wearing a shirt that said "I love monsters." Then a monster busted through his closet door. He gasps in fear. Then the monster tells him a bed time story, and then the kid falls asleep.
The End
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Home Game for LJ Idol Minor - Week 1 // Prompt: An Embarrassing Moment
When I was pregnant with Homer, there were a lot of times I would just completely forget what I was trying to say, or I couldn't remember the name of something specific that I'd known really well pre-pregnancy. A lot of people call this "mommy brain" or "pregnancy brain." It's hard to think when you're growing a human, apparently ( Read more... )