January 2007
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Ok, But Let's Make It a Quickie
Over the years, we’ve been known to spend hours preparing elaborate meals that get consumed in less time than we spent chopping the ingredients for. We know that will be a thing of the past come June, and we’ve slowly been preparing ourselves for our new reality. The fact that our lives have already become busier has made this transition more a necessity, but other times, we’ve...
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1/29/2007
What a difference a couple of coats of paint make. For some stupid reason, when we painted the rest of the house, we neglected to paint about half of the doors to match the rest of the trim and doors. Left their natural stained wood color, they made the rooms feel dark, and for months, we’ve wanted to paint them. We finally got out our brushes and went to work on them, and a few hours...
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Drowning
I have a bit of a predicament on my hands these days. It’s slowly crept up on me over the past year, and I get the feeling that this problem will only get worse as our lives are about to get much, much busier. My problem? I’m drowning in a ever-deepening sea of media. Between the hours of shows on our Tivo, a stack of movies that we haven’t gotten a chance to watch yet, piles...
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1/22/2007
There’s nothing funnier than 30 Yorkies running around a room like crazy. Apparently, George already has quite a reputation.
We want to build a closet in our front hallway, and we’ve had a couple of contractors in to give us estimates. The first one came back with a ridiculously high price, so high is was laughable. Probably about 5 times what we wanted to spend. The next one...
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randomosity
The Lovely Suse would like everyone to know that for a total of 20 hours, she had the superior cellphone technology in the family. After waiting months for the phone of our choice to go on sale so we could get it for free, this week was finally the week. I began to have second thoughts about what phone to get, and in the meantime, she took the plunge and made the upgrade. After playing with her...
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1/15/2007
Total Number of Projects Done This Weekend: 0. And I loved every minute of it. Ok, well, I did clean out part of the basement, but that was just fun. I like to throw stuff out. I’ve completely lost the need to save anything. If I haven’t used something in the past year, it’s gone. Streamline, baby!
I picked up a giant cast iron frying pan to try out my newest pizza making...
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1/8/2007
We had an ultrasound on Friday and saw that baby all moving around and stuff. And he/she stuck his/her tongue out at us. Definitely a Carpenter.
I’m all for the environment and stuff, but if Global Warming means more 71 degree days in the middle of January, then I’m all for it. Walking around in jeans and a t-shirt and feeling warm, I thought I was living in California or something.
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A Buttery New Year
New Year’s Eve sure ain’t what it used to be. Drunken debauchery, disappointed expectations, and mediocre food used to be the standard, which I sort of just came to expect. That changed a few years ago, when the Lovely Suse and I started going out for a nice dinner to cap off the year, with back to back visits to Oleana, which dispensed with the usual overpriced and uninspired New...
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Best of 2006
Sorry this is a little late, but there were over 260 posts to sort through to come up with this list. Quite a year.
Best new Kitchen Gadget: The Nine Stars DZR-42-1 Infrared Trash Can. I thought that this would take some getting used to, but I’m so used to it, I went to our clothes hamper the other night and waved my dirty clothes in front of it waiting for the top to open. Why isn’t...
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1/2/2007
A subdued New Years Eve for us. A butter-filled meal, very little booze, and a whole lotta Everest.
The first run with the deep fryer was a smashing success. The fries were crispier and far less greasy than my past attempts, so this is a great addition to the kitchen arsenal. We also tried frying a pickle, which has some great potential. I think we need to have a frying party sometime soon,...