My parents gave me their old Roomba and it just decided to vacuum. Alice has her Robo-Quad (aka. Spider) in high aggression guard mode and is trying to get it to chase the Roomba. Vacuuming just became super fun!

I can't drink coffee because it gives me fibromyalgia so for the past few years I have taken care of my caffeine needs with tea ( Read more... )

My father has wonderful memories of the fruitcake of his childhood. He says modern fruitcake (the kind you can buy at the market around Xmas) is horrible. His mother would start making the fruitcake around this time of the year and then she would store it and feed it booze every now and then until next Xmas. It is supposed to be a very dark and ( Read more... )

I still love it ( Read more... )

There are already 5 inches of snow in my deck and now it is snowing again ( Read more... )

He came by and got his car a little bit ago. I went out and looked on my porch where I found a bag containing the boots and a bottle of wine. I hope he makes it home safely ( Read more... )

Last week Brian came over on Saturday wearing sandals, as is his usual habit. It snowed and he was stranded here without reasonable footwear to get him to the bus stop and home to Capitol Hill. Luckily, it was just the beginning of this messy weather and I was able to drive him home ( Read more... )

I've been wondering for a long time if making shortbread with Splenda would ruin a perfectly good cup of butter. I just made a half batch with Splenda and it turns out my fears were groundless. They still have the great buttery texture and taste almost as good as the real thing. Yay.

Alice's school is closed today for fear of snow. So far we have only wind but eventually we will probably get some snow. We are having a casual day. I went to Goodwill yesterday and got some cheap tree decorations that we will put on the tree today since all of my usual decorations are in Port Townsend in my Parent's attic. Last night Alice and ( Read more... )

Alice has been bugging me to get her a robot. Yesterday she asked me to let Santa know that she needs a robot. Does anyone have a good robot recommendation? She is not asking for a specific robot as far as I know. She just says she wants a robot ( Read more... )