I'm sitting at home passing the time between my doctor and dentist appointments and am realizing, once again, how completely awesome it would be not to have to go to work. There's something so nice about being home when everyone else is out slaving away. Hell, if I'd managed my hour better I could have gone swimming or read or worked on my website ( Read more... )

Tonight I made ribeye steaks (which had been marinating in a soy sauce/Worcestershire concoction since yesterday), parmesan red potatoes, and steamed broccoli and cauliflower ( Read more... )

Ok, there's this Christmas song that I really want to hear, but I can't remember what it's called or any of the lyrics so that I could look it up online. I'm hoping that maybe, just maybe, someone will be able to tell me the name of it. But that seems pretty unlikely given ( Read more... )

In the past week I've made Mediterranean-style meatballs and rosemary/sage pork chops (with zucchini and summer squash). Both came out delicious.

I also have idiazabal and fresh mozzarella from the cheese store and strawberries from the farmers' market.

I win.

Time for another brief update that no one will read ( Read more... )

Ok, that was a bit overdramatic and not really appropriate, but I was never able to resist a Labyrinth quote, even if it is only tangentially related ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been forever since I posted on here (since November 2007, in fact). Although I hardly think I’ve let anyone down-I doubt anyone reads this thing anymore. Still, I should get back in the habit of posting stuff occasionally, if only to give myself something to look back on at the end of the year. So let’s see ( Read more... )

...everyone should go to www.freerice.com. I'm still convinced there's some loophole or other way the sponsors are getting out of it (and how the hell are they counting out ten grains of rice?), but it definitely can't hurt and it IS fun for word-loving people, which is pretty much the five people who read my mostly extinct lj.

Go be proactive.

So Perdita likes to sit in my window when it's open with the mini blinds up, and people say hi to her as they walk past. But what happened earlier today wins the title of Cutest Thing Ever ( Read more... )

Not that anyone noticed my absence here, but I had a good excuse. I was writing a NaNoWriMo novel during the month of August ( Read more... )