Did you know there's an HGTV show called House Hunters Renovations??? First 20 mins spent reviewing 3 homes and then remaining 40 mins spent renovating the chosen home!

Yes, I am much too excited about this.

And yes, I may be very close to OD-ing on HGTV.

Today was turning into a pretty good Christmas Eve. Yes, I had a couple of work things I needed to get done, but I was able to do those from home, so that meant sleeping in (yay!) and working in PJs (yay yay!). Plus, it's not pouring rain out for the first time in ... god, it feels like weeks, so that meant I could go for a long run outside (yay ( Read more... )

A brief update on my power outage from last night: Turns out it was a bunch of downed trees that then took out a power pole. Which I discovered when I tried to go down the road where those trees and pole live this morning to discover the entire road was closed. So I had to swing a U-y and travel through my entire town so I could drive to my ( Read more... )

So, I lost power about 30 mins ago. Timing wasn't too terrible as I'd been getting ready for bed, so I didn't have that many lights and stuff still on. So I finished my nightly "routine" with the aid of my trusty headlamp -- so perfect for power outages, btw -- crawled into bed and ... found myself completely unable to sleep. WTF, self? It's not ( Read more... )

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I actually am still alive. And I'll happily fill you in on the boring details of my existence, but right now, I need HELP ( Read more... )

I've heard of being all thumbs before, but this is ridiculous. Over the course of 2 days, I managed to take out both my thumbs. First, on Saturday, I was grating some carrots for a carrot cake, and the carrot slipped from my grip, and OW, hello grated right thumb knuckle. (It actually didn't hurt that bad, but I could not, for the life of me, ( Read more... )

(and some not so awesomecakes stuff, but more on that later)

Things that are AWESOME?

1. I just bought the complete Arrested Development DVD set (currently on sale at Amazon for $26.99!) using my cashback credit from one of my credit cards. Yay! I've been meaning to get this series on DVD for ages and, for some reason, the show's been on my ( Read more... )

Let's see, in no particular order, this is what I did in Boston:

1. Saw dead people. Lots of dead people.
2. Bought ALL THE EARRINGS.
3. Two words: MOJITO POPSICLES.
4. Watched nanda fall further down the Jack/Ianto rabbit hole.
5. Put in motion plans to find nanda a nice Indian mother who will cook for her.
6. Seriously, people, MOJITO POPSICLES.

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It's 1:15 and I'm still in my PJs. Still haven't taken a shower. Lunch was a large cup of coffee and a bunch of Newtons Fruit Thins. And I, sadly, have not gotten much actual work done. I can't decide if this is a complete fail or a complete win. ;)

(Real post coming soon as I realized earlier today that my last real post was back in April!!!)

Ah, hello there. Spring has finally decided to descend upon the Bay Area and I am home in bed, sick. Bummer. So far today, I have managed to not be in bed for a grand total of 1.5 hours. .5 of that was spent shoving breakfast down my throat since my parents drilled in me as a kid that is it very very very important to feed a fever. (Could be a ( Read more... )