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Not a phenomenal start to the new year
So it's a good thing I decided to go to the gym on Saturday after I woke up, because it meant discovering my flat tire well before I was leaving for work. ( It was inconvenient and also expensive ) -
Cranky Xmas
So one of the things I've been letting slide over the course of my holiday has been posting journal entries -- and then of course events pile up and make the projected entry longer and longer to write, making me more reluctant to give up the block of time required ( Read more... ) -
Minty fresh
Okay, testing out the new bluetooth keyboard while waiting for my cupcakes to come out of the oven. I found a recipe in a pamphlet of holiday recipes from the 80s Mom had and got all excited about mint chocolate cake -- turned out the recipe boiled down to making devil's food cake from a mix and adding ¼ cup creme de menthe, plus garnishing ( Read more... ) -
Feline update
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my annual checkup and Pap smear, then to the post office and to breakfast and finally to visit Grandma. And then I managed to keep myself motivated enough to do laundry and clean the rabbit cage, instead of just crashing onto the couch with a book (all adulted out for the day ( Read more... ) -
I really need to post more often
If I'm going to be doing my computerage on my smartphone, I should really try again to get an external keyboard that I can use for typing lengthy posts. Because I don't want to hang out in my freezing room by myself -- I want to be able to park on the couch in the living room. And I wind up postponing things that involve a lot of typing because I ( Read more... ) -
Let's break this down
It's been so long since I did a photo post that I'm going to break this up into chunks, just in case I don't finish it today. This one is everything but the baking.
(It does not help that the last time I tried doing one of these I couldn't get the computer and the phone to talk to each other for longer than a minute or so at a time before ( Read more... ) -
Holiday cards
'Tis the season to send snail-mail greetings to friends and family who want them. If you'd like a card from me, drop a comment (which are screened) with your address. If you got a card from me last year and I don't think you've moved since then, you're already on the list (though confirmation is nice ( Read more... ) -
Happy Thanksgiving
I keep postponing making an entry till I'm on a proper keyboard, but I should at least mention that Thanksgiving was exhausting but happy, that my pumpkin apple cake and cinnamon pumpkin cookies were a hit -- and that the three neighbor kitties reappeared after being missing for a few days and are now lounging in the living room awaiting dinner ( Read more... ) -
Hopes come crashing down
To jump to the ending, the SUV kept showing up at the neighbor's house for a few hours on multiple days in the past week. Including yesterday -- and the three kittens haven't been seen since yesterday, missing a couple of meals they had learned to expect. So it seems likely they've been collected and taken away, hopefully to the neighbors' new ( Read more... )