Today, I...

...woke up at a decent time but closed my eyes for a couple of minutes and slept in really late.

...put on my workout clothes, then decided to skip the workout and move right on to the making breakfast part of the day.

...really wanted coffee but couldn't be arsed to brew any, so I had iced tea with my omelet.

...wrote three pages in my ( Read more... )

If you're selling an electronic edition of a book for more than the paperback edition, you're shooting yourself in the foot and losing sales.  I love reading books on my Kindle, but when I feel like you're trying to cash in on a trend rather than just selling something at a fair value, I'm going to keep my wallet in my pocket and borrow a copy ( Read more... )

Where did the weekend go???  Tonight feels like a Friday night, not a Sunday night!  And I am soooo exhausted.

Friday night we were couch potatoes. We watched movies, and I think some stuff off the DVR.  The highlight of the night was watching Ink on Netflix Instant Download.  I was surfing for some good sci-fi, and it showed up as a recommended ( Read more... )

Crazy-ass day yesterday!!!

I got up disgustingly early so I  could haul all my yard sale crap out before the early birds made the rounds.  Craig took off for a hamfest and some testing (he's a volunteer examiner), so I was left all alone with the yard sale, ...quite literally ALONE since NO ONE even came by to look at anything!  I tried not to throw ( Read more... )

We got our first share of CSA harvest yesterday!  Very exciting.  :)  Our box of organic goodness had a small bouquet of fresh thyme, radishes, garlic scapes and a nice selection of early greens: red leaf lettuce, kale, arugula, spicy mesclun mix.

Now begins the unofficial CSA challenge to use everything we pick up each week.  I was thinking of ( Read more... )

My favorite parts of gardening, in order, are:

1. Using what I've grown: veggies, herbs, cut flowers, pressed flowers, attracting birds and butterflies.
2. The cold, very soapy shower I take after sweating to near death in the dirt, bugs, heat and humidity.
3. Looking at the results of all my hard work.

The actual work of gardening, the "process"?  HATE ( Read more... )

We woke up way too early this morning.  (Before 8am, I think.)  I don't know why.

We had a slow, decadent start to the day: coffee and cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs, internet surfing.  Eventually we got motivated to get moving, so we sun-screened up and headed out to the zoo.

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They said we'd get our new sidewalk "Wednesday or Thursday morning."  Thursday morning is fast slipping away.  ...Not that I'm impatient or anything.  Ok.  This time I am.  It's not unreasonable though.  I think anyone who's yard looked the way ours has for the past six months would be impatient too.  Every red or rumbling truck that passes the ( Read more... )

We had our first meeting/"practice pickup" with our new CSA tonight, and the farm is *beautiful*!  There was a charming house surrounded by several rustic barns/buildings, all set in serene gardens.  A quick walk through the gardens and you're at the crop beds where early crops are already looking good.  The first harvest should be happening the ( Read more... )

What a frakkin' week!  And to think, Monday I was angsting over my Wednesday dentist appointment!  The appointment was easy-cheesy!  Got a clean bill of health and another, "You have great teeth."  What I didn't see coming was my brake line splitting open on the way into town for my appointment, pulling something in my chest, my rabbit having a ( Read more... )