Today for lunch, I made French onion soup, which I served with grilled cheese and not croutes. And for dinner, spinach-mushroom crepes with a mushroom seasoned bechamel. I managed to use the broiler twice without setting anything on fire - in fact, my cheese looked very nice, toasty in spots but not singed. I might just be getting the hang of the ( Read more... )

yesterday sucked - all sorts of random depression - but today was alright. I decided to use up one of the bowls of fruitcake fruit I had macerating in the fridge to make baked barley for the rest of the week's breakfasts, as I still have one and half fruitcakes. Went shopping for a couple of out of print cookbooks which I didn't find, but got a ( Read more... )

Yes, insight customer service lady, you're speaking to the female Mefford that owns this account. But there's no Mrs. Mefford here. That's my mom. I'm a Ms. Thanks for calling, and no, I don't want to upgrade my broadband. Bye!

Woo, my first eBay sale - and to someone with 100% positive feedback. I'm excited.

Buddy's ginger peach martini would be very good if it had a bit less alcohol, although after the first half I didn't care so much.

My wedding albums came in. They're awful. Considering legal action if they're not fixed awful. The enlagements aren't any better; they look like they were taken with cheap film in a leaky camera 20 years ago and the negatives were stored in somebody's damp basement before being printed ( Read more... )

I attended a lunch session of the Louisville Festival of Faiths today. This year's theme is Sacred Soil; the lunch session was supposed to be a talk by Will Allen of Growing Power 'in the spirit of Terre Madre' (Terre Madre being the Slow Food International festival and conference that just wrapped up last week or so). I don't know if he captured ( Read more... )

My house smells like cat poop. :-\ I would open a window but they don't open. I love my kitties, and I know I'm doing the right thing helping out the ferals, but does it have to be so... fragrant ( Read more... )

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! *screams and beats in hood of dumb bitch who managed to miss me signaling a turn for half a block ( Read more... )

I went for a nice long bike ride this afternoon, and all was well. The saddle I've borrowed from the bike shop to test out worked great. So I get home and take a shower, did some stretches, and then I laid down on the bed to snuggle with Raisty and fell asleep. And OMG woke up with the nastiest headache, complete with mild vertigo disorientation ( Read more... )