A post on Fark asked what we were thankful for on this day. Here’s my addition…. I’m thankful for my husband’s and family’s love. I’m thankful that my husband’s family members in Mississippi are still alive after Katrina’s wrath. I’m…
Archives for 2005
the biggest party night of the year!
And I’m baking a Pumpkin pie. I seriously don’t know what got into me. I usually just buy a pie from the nearest food store and am done with it. This time I used GoogleBase and found this recipe for…
adventures in the kitchen
Let’s say you have a hypothetical ‘friend’ who really doesn’t cook much at all, aside some manic baking once a year. Let’s say that she’s torn through every takeout and fast food joint in a 10 mile radius, and is…
The cake
We tried it tonight after dinner…here are some random comments Me: Mmmph…butter BvP: Y’know…it’s good… Me: …thick and really dense… BvP: …but I like Duncan Hines better… Me: …can’t finish the slice… BvP: So…worth the 5 hours? Me: Worth someone…
The answer
Why don’t people off themselves by age 75, depressed from watching people die? Because your kind authoress here forgot something quite important. Because we also watch people LIVE. Babies are born, kids grow, and we get to see the tired…
RIP, Eddie
(warning: raw post) I’ve been watching Wrestling since before WrestleMania 1, but I started falling out of interest a few years ago. Eddie Guerrero was found dead today. Was he a huge star like Hogan or Austin or Flair? Nah….
Letter to a brown canine
Dear Max: When I come home from work and I’m already wearing my sneakers, this means that I have been to Curves already. And I’ve exercised already. And I most likely am tired and sweaty and do NOT want to…
100 hours song
As previously mentioned, the song I made up for BvP when he worked his 111 hour in 10 days stint. (the extra hour was due to the clock falling back) (to the approximate tune of the Proclaimers’ “500 miles”) When…
The Vomit Comet
Mmm…feeling better. Computer room is painted with one coat. BvP is exhausted and stamina’s not my thing today, so we’ll adjourn the home improvment project for a few days. I’m still wiggy about going back to work tomorrow. It’s the…
relief
Every time I wake up after an illness…and feel the coolness on my skin that only could mean that a fever had come and gone… Every time I wake up after an illness…and feel the distinct absence of discomfort and…
as i lay wasting away
BvP makes a disturbing discovery
Literary aspirations
musing about books