Saturday afternoon, we welcomed a new household member, and it’s time that you met him too.

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I’ve always cooked. The kitchen is where my I exhibit my nesting instincts the strongest. I grew up in the kitchen, recipes and their results were valued as the best presents, the best investments of time together. When I wanted an easy bake oven, mom said “No, you can use the real oven” From there she taught me kitchen safety, and gave me my ( Read more... )

A favorite coffee shop reopened a few weeks ago, and I finally got a chance to stop in this morning.  If you don’t know the story the synopsis is this,  It is  a community coffee shop that was hit by an arsonist last fall.  A local business Sip and Ship took them in, letting them take over the coffee operation as they planned their rebuild. The ( Read more... )

A couple of Saturdays ago Sunnie and Mac joined me for a day of sushi at Genki Sushi and craft shopping at Urban Craft Uprising. I’ve been attending the Urban Craft Uprising almost since day 1. (My friend Deb and I tried to attend the first one, but I can’t remember if we actually made it in, it was so crowded)

The event has grown leaps and bounds ( Read more... )

I’ve just weeded through all of my photos on iPhoto, in an effort to clean things up. (The new laptop has more hard drive space, but I’m adding a windows partition and historically, I run out of space) As I wandered through these photos I noticed a few trends.

1. Place a cup of coffee in front of me, and I’ll take a picture of it.
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There I was standing in the corner as the object of my affection stood mere feet away, unselfconsciously keeping time to the music with her rain stick.  I whispered to my family, “She’s so cool!”. I vibrated in excitement at being so close to my “celebrity crush”. Later in the evening I got a chance to speak to her, and just narrowly avoided ( Read more... )

On Thursday, I got this weird email. The address looked spoof, it contained misspellings,  and had no link to a real person. Suspisicious, I emailed the parent organization and said “Is this spam? The response was surprising.

The case cracking issue with my macbook has had me running into the Apple store every three months for a case repair. The ( Read more... )

“Bodies at rest stay at rest, Deb at rest plays Warcraft”

It was with this thought I mind that I made plans to run away on Saturday, to get out and do something active.  So on Saturday I kicked off the holiday weekend with a trip to Bainbridge Island with Miss Sunnie.

It was up early to do a little work, then a few errands visiting the local True ( Read more... )

A few months ago one of my younger coworkers said to me “No one used e-mail before 2000. ” I laughed at him, and explained that no only did we have email, but I had met my first husband through match.com in 1998.

I’ve had an internet presence nearly as long. I moved to my own domain in 2000, and blogging came shortly after. I’ve been at this for ( Read more... )

As expected this quarter is a little challenging in the schedule department, and Im finding less time for writing. In 6 weeks it will be over for another year, so have no fear I’ll be back soon.

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