Wow, it’s been a while. Dammit. I didn’t mean to do that. Life was really busy for a period of time, then kid decided that she could not actually care for Cricket as she needed. Tragically, no one offered to pay me to quit my job and stay home and raise a puppy, so we […]
So there’s a puppy. Apparently some dumbass was giving away puppies outside a grocery store. Puppies, I will note, who should not have been away from their mothers yet. Kid’s friend accepted a puppy, got her home, and realized she was in over her head. Puppy was only four weeks old. My kid and I
I don’t usually do New Year’s Resolutions. They don’t tend to stick, according to the science. And they annoy me. I don’t like to do things everyone else is doing, especially not when everyone else is doing them. But I gotta figure something out. I’m tired of spinning my wheels. So I prepped yesterday and
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My roommate bakes for fun, y’all. And though we are very much not “we need space for entertaining!” people, she does love to feed people. Enter Christmas, and a visit from her parents. Roomie made chocolate crinkle cookies. She fixed Tuscan Sausage Pasta. She baked pfeffernรผsse. She made bread (to go with the apple butter
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Sometimes I’ve got the Christmas spirit. It comes and goes. Most of the time, I really just don’t. I think I need a few days off before I have to do something else, but I don’t get to do that. Whine, whine…it bites when the spirit abandons you when you’ve barely wrapped any presents. But
It’s not been a great day. I don’t want to wallow in the negative, though. The more I do that, the worse things seem, and who needs that? So I’m gonna do #3GoodThings. So. I’m grateful for my house. I love my house. It is not big, but it is big enough. It’s cute. It’s
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I’ve never been (and probably never will be) a fancy-cooking type person. My favorite TV chefs are Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, but I only watch Gordon Ramsay to see him swear at stuff and then help fix things. And even Jamie Oliver, who tries to make things easy–I mostly don’t make the food I