I am inordinately proud of the results of my creative efforts this week. Those of you who have played Settlers of Catan before surely know how amazing the game is. However, the 'board' pieces are larger than necessary, and it turns out, just slightly too big when assembled to fit on our coffee table. So I devised a solution:


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Our weeping willow 'sploded due to the accumulation of ice on its branches from the freezing rain Thursday. The ice is melting off of the top branches (so it really is a 'weeping' willow now), but not the branch that toppled onto our neighbors power and phone lines. Luckily, the power line is still intact, so they didn't lose electricity, but ( Read more... )

I have cooked many tasty treats in the last week, all from scratch (i.e., flour, meat, spices...not boxed things!). Aji de gallina, Thai chicken stir fry, cheesy chicken tender topped salad, chicken tetrazini (OK, we use chicken alot), spaghetti and meatballs (ha, not chicken), vanilla pudding, layered taco casserole thing, spaghetti a la ( Read more... )

We are just about done. We've been lazy and haven't finished the moldings. But other than that, our project is complete. And, as is apparently often the case, the floor upgrade prompted me to buy a few new pieces of furniture for the living room so that the desk area would appear less cluttered. We haven't quite finished putting everything back ( Read more... )

Just the newest photos are available here. The full photo documentation of our project to date is here.

We'll be done tomorrow assuming we can buy 2 more boxes of wood, and assuming that installing the quarterround molding around the base of the rooms doesn't take too long. I am very excited!

New photos have been posted here. Opinions on the hearth tile arrangement (particularly on its relative scale) would be appreciated.

Sunday: Removed furniture and carpet (and pad, staples, and tack strips) from living room ( Read more... )

I shouldn't read comments on other people's ljs written by people I don't know. I refuse to reply to such comments and possibly engage said people in debate because I don't know them, but sometimes they really get under my skin. This is a stupid thing to make an entry about, but ( Read more... )

Terry sent himself an e-mail from his WashU account...and it showed up as having been sent by me. Creepy.

Today I took two of my classes' four exams for this semester. It is soooo nice to have them out of the way (although I would have preferred taking them before break, when I actually remembered things a little better). Also, I think I did passably well on both (although with some tests you can't really know until the grade is reported, I feel very ( Read more... )