We all have some level of hypocrisy in our lives. Yes, you too. And while I will happily pay double for a gallon of organic skim milk and we wake up at dawn’s first light to trek down to the farmer’s market to buy locavore produce from people we know and trust, I have a […]
I’m absolutely fine with people letting their dogs poop in our yard. Poop happens. Just pick the shit up. That’s all I ask. Pick up after your dog, because they don’t have thumbs and you do.
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Working from home, we’ve been cooking a lot more over this last year. It’s just so much easier to start dinner going in the late afternoon — get the skirt steak marinating, start browning up some mushrooms– than when you are stuck in a cubicle across town, obvs. In 2011, we dramatically reduced our restaurant […]
Did you guys know that things break on houses? It’s absolutely true. But did you know that they all conspire to break at the same damned time? Also completely true. Case in point: Casa Bix tried to pretty much mutiny over the past several weeks. We were feeling pretty good about ourselves, actually, so we […]
One of the side benefits of my new (well, six months old) job is that the hour or so that I used to spend commuting to and from the office is the make or break hour for planning ambitious meals. Not that we’ve been ambitious, mind you, but we certainly do more eating at home […]
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
We have one big holiday affair in my local social group: a heady bacchanal in a distant McMansion community where our friend stuffs us with meats and liquors until we beg for mercy. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he wanted to harvest our livers. Imagine a party where the frenched lamb chops appetizers […]
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Tagged baking, charity, Christmas cookies, cookbook, do-gooding, food, holidays, oreos, parties, party recipes, recipe, semi-homemade, Weetacon
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
I made a discovery recently that makes me question how I live my life. I recognize that I have a clothing problem, that I treat fashion with the same zeal that I treat all things wonderful: more more more nom nom nom. I have regular purgings and trend annihilation (for instance, those stupid convertible bras? […]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Did you enter my photography giveaway yet? You get two chances to win a free print from my Etsy shop! Details here! I’ve been a bundle of nesting energy as the busy season smacks me straight in the face. On top of the familial demands, I have been poring over home decor blogs and food […]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
I had intended to update to get that morose piece of misery off the top of the page, but uh, there’s nothing really changing on that front. So in lieu of a comprehensible narrative, some bullet points: My sister is in India for a month. She got off work today and was told to stay […]
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Tagged dog, etsy, home improvements, indie rock and roll, literary, OCD, painting, pets, power tools, rose bush, stars, Weetacon, writing
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Monday, September 13, 2010
A few years ago, Esteban and Scotty Boom Boom experienced a bit of an obstacle to their home brew hobbying: there was a hops shortage. Hops! Why wasn’t this a major headline in the news as the banks were crumbling? Think of the beer, people! The BEER! They solved it, much in the way of […]
