The un-Thanksgiving menu is set, and here it is ( Read more... )

So no furnitures, at least not the stuff I was hoping for.  Long story.  ::sigh ( Read more... )

So I came home from St. louis this weekend and found out that my lawnmower had been stolen.  ::sigh::  I have been keeping it outside tucked away next to the house for almost a year.  Fool me once.... won't happen again.  We are now the proud owners (?) of an electric mower.  It is small and cute and cuts through everything with no fuss or bother ( Read more... )

The story of a long weekend:

So for Memorial Day weekend, we went for a long overdue visit to our family in the Galveston, TX area (my mom's sister, her husband, my cousins, step-second cousins, and step-cousins).  I think everyone was really excited because the last time we saw them was before Hurricane Ike during Thanksgiving.

Wednesday night and ( Read more... )

My parents came up this weekend to help with the kitchen (and boy did they ever help!)  We made a huge amount of progress, and I am so pleased with how the kitchen is shaping up.  We were all very tired and cranky by Sunday, but it is so worth the pain and frustration to have a friendlier, more open, and more useful kitchen!

Pictures of the kitchen ( Read more... )

I don't do this often enough really ( Read more... )

Do not cut self with knife.

Go to Europe

Do not cut self with anything else

Get some house projects done

Drop off all the clothes that I pulled for donation

Learn something new

I had a shitty day today.( for the strong of stomach (please don't say I did not warn you) )

Awesomeness

Now i just wish everyone in my neighborhood would put away the fireworks and guns and let me sleep...

It is totally not that i disagree with their excitement...

Yes, friends, the Stinky Meat.

Does anyone see where this is going yet?  Five points....

This is a little old, but I keep meaning to post it.  For anyone who has not encountered the neighbors that moved in about 7 months ago, they are quite odd.  They have screaming matches periodically and are constantly doing odd things.  The man also frequently ( Read more... )