Filed under: Baby!, Fibre Crafts, Get Older, Health Stuff, Hippy Shit, Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Random Geekery, Watch Stuff, Work at Susie's | Tags: Doctor Who, effexor, effexor discontinuation syndrome, extraordinary baby shoppe, Mountain Path, pregnant
I’ve become a lazy blogger — too preoccupied with my gardening, I think, to do much more than contemplate posting. However, I’ve some stuff to share in point form:
Filed under: Get All Mushy, Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, People I Know, Superheroes, Things I Do, Things I Read, Torchdrool, Unrequited Lust For Jim, Vacation, Watch Stuff, Work at Susie's | Tags: blue rodeo, torchwood, Jim Cuddy - sex god, extraordinary baby shoppe, Bluesfest, Alex Beecroft
I’ve been quiet on the blog front for a bit — busy with vistors, work, and other stuff. Thus, I shall do one of those convenient point-form posts to catch you all up on what’s going down in my life:
Filed under: Awkward Conversations, Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Random Geekery, Things I Eat, Things I Make, Things I Read, Watch Stuff | Tags: 1:12, BBC, Books, coffee, free stuff, Indian food, kids, LibraryThing, miniatures, overheard, Sweeney Todd
A little list of things currently making me smile:
- Free books — I just “won” my first two books through LibraryThing and am eagerly anticipating their arrival. I’m also having a great deal of fun randomly adding to my library from books that I own and books that I’ve read — it’s a pretty scattered combination at this point of library books borrowed and read, and stuff I actually own. When I tire of trolling the groups and people’s libraries, I review a couple of the things I’ve listed in my own. It’s fun and essentially no-pressure. I’m finding myself thinking about the fun I could have with a CueCat.
- Indian food — made two really yummy new-to-me recipes last night and had leftovers for lunch. So. Much. Yum.
- Miniatures — I used to collect them as a child, and made some too. I was poking around Etsy and found some things that lead me on a four hour trip down memory lane, reading some of my miniature design books and (kind of seriously) thinking about constructing a miniature building of some sort. I think I’d have a lot of fun with a miniature cake shop. Or green grocer.
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Filed under: Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, Memes, Random Geekery, Unrequited Lust For Jim | Tags: blue rodeo, Jim Cuddy, meme, songs, soundtrack, tunes
I snagged this from someone on Facebook. I have rather eclectic musical tastes, and was curious what would pop up. It made me giggle — pretty hard by times — so I thought I’d repost it here. To be honest, I advanced everytime I hit a Christmas tune — and that happened fairly often.
I’m rather perplexed Blue Rodeo only turned up only once!
Instructions:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For the first question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…just type it in!
Filed under: Get All Mushy, In The Kitchen, Listen to Stuff, Recipes, Things I Eat | Tags: beans, domestic, recipe, spring, travis
I have my furnace turned off today and all the windows thrown wide open to capture this first gasp of Spring. Mellow tunes seemed to fit the mood, so I loaded up a few Travis albums to play on random shuffle.
Spring smelled so good, that I decided my kitchen floor needed the same treatment — I’m about half-done now (small house + small kitchen = scrubbing in stages). I also baked a cake for no reason at all really, except that my birthday is later this week and I don’t imagine I’ll have a birthday cake.
There’s just something about the smell of fresh baking in a clean kitchen on a Spring-like day that is so very soul satisfying.
