It's an extra long one for me as I also took next Tuesday and Wednesday off. The break between New Year's and Easter can be just too damned long sometimes so I treated myself to an extra few days. I've decided that for at least one day this weekend I'm not going to get out of my pyjamas at all. I'll get up, park myself on the couch, and try to make ( Read more... )

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I'm attempting bread today.

And we're off! 

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 A few little somethin'-somethin's to celebrate the end of a damned long week:


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If you haven't heard of Adele yet, you're in for such a treat. She's a young British singer-songwriter with a voice and presence that'll give you goosebumps. I can only imagine how her talent and expressive abilities as a singer are going to deepen and mature as she gains experience. She already sounds mature beyond her years and as a personality ( Read more... )

Pied de Pepper, that's how.

My feet get pretty rough, what with the running and the sandals I usually wear all summer. This stuff is the only thing I've found that actually softens my feet and keeps them looking and feeling smooth. I haven't had any for quite awhile and the state of my feet tells the tale - dry, rough and cracked. And lately my ( Read more... )

Seems like any damage that was done when I last kissed the pavement while out running was mostly confined to the day of the fall, and even that was limited to a bit of swelling and stiffness in my knee and tenderness in my shoulder. Long about Tuesday I entered the purple, green and yellow phase  with the bruising on my shoulder but it wasn't ( Read more... )

 
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I guess 2011 is the year I start approaching adulthood, what with getting a microwave and chest freezer. The growing up process continued over the weekend as I acquired a couch and coffee table. Both are secondhand, and it's a futon couch (which I tend to think of as not a 'proper' couch) but at $60 for both I couldn't pass it up. I've been ( Read more... )

Over the weekend I dropped my landline in favour of my cellphone, figuring I didn't need to be paying for two phones when I don't really use either very much in the first place. The only reason I was keeping my landline was for long distance calls because for a long time there just wasn't a comparable plan for the cell phone. But now that there is ( Read more... )