In which it must suck to be a first responder. It’s the 4th here in M-F, which means at least ten amateur large fireworks displays within a half mile of our house. It’s insane. I can sit on the patio and see four without even turning my head, it’s loud as hell, and even in […]
In which I can’t fucking cook AT ALL anymore?! Yesterday, I hurt my back walking across my kitchen. Just walking. (After doing several other things, chores, window cleaning, and dropping something and startling so hard I somehow actually caught it: that was probably when the twinge really began. But we’ll say I was walking. Because […]
In which I realized yesterday that I’ll be 60 in five years. On Wednesday mornings, I attend a 2-hour class, via Zoom, for ACS CCP exam prep. Right now we’re covering milk, specifically acidulants used in cheesemaking, and even more specifically the difference between acids like lemon juice and acidity caused by the addition of […]
In which my life is super awesome and I’m not worthy. It’s Sunday, so we slept in. I got up around one o’clock, or maybe noon, and had something to eat, and then, because it was a gorgeous, warm, green, rainy spring day, I went outside to meditate. “Lusk Creek,” or rather, the irrigation ditch […]
In which I knock out an entire to-do list. I’m not sure what I intended to do Tuesday, no doubt I’d had a mental list, but what I ended up doing was a list of things literally more than a decade in the making. I bought my Amma doll in the late 90’s. I’ve had […]
In which I’ve gotten up from a nap hungry. Apropos of nothing, I have a sudden and intense desire for a fish sandwich from McD’s?! What the hell! They’re terrible! Every time I eat one (this happens once or twice a decade, on average) I regret it. — Update: For the record, I settled for […]
In which the internet is stupid. But it’s also awesome! Made the mistake today of looking the house up on Zillow, and that bastard of a site had the nerve to estimate the value under what we paid for it only eleven months ago! Well, I looked at recent sales of similar houses in the […]
In which I decided to blog. So here’s a blog post! Enjoy! It will not be interesting. My contact lenses showed up a few days ago, so I’ve just sat down to fill out the rebate. (The only reason I ordered this new brand of contacts was that the optometrist’s office told me they’d be […]
In which it’s the Super Bowl. Let it be known that three o’clock this Sunday was the first time I’ve seen rainbows in my living room in 2023. Window prisms are the best! I made my TV re-scan for channels, but we don’t get Fox in this house so I guess I’m not watching the […]
In which there’s a soup tureen. I keep my garlic in an old-ass soup tureen my aunt shipped us, along with a teapot, teacups, and some antique lace, when we lived in Minneapolis. It’s a great garlic keeper because it’s dark inside, but it doesn’t match my kitchen (it’s green) and takes up a bunch […]
