Sold!

I love the smell of transaction in the afternoon. I just sold two sets of stitch markers to MoeThatsMe. Everyone go over there and thank her for supporting my addictive yarn habit. mmmmm…yaaaaarn. You are all jealous, and now want a set. But for the time being TOO BAD…I won’t have time before [...]

crock pot delight

I should post this on my recipe site, but I’m too lazy to try to figure out amounts. This morning, I mixed chicken broth, soy sauce, lime and orange juices, ketchup, garlic, ginger, and brown sugar, and poured it all over chicken legs in the crock pot and let it cook all day.

OH [...]

a must-read

Everyone stop what they are doing and read this.

Now.

It’s an article about teaching evolution for anyone, no matter WHAT your background. And how to remove the “threat” aspect of it that so many people feel is there.

But this is at the college level. We need to do this for kids. For [...]

cookies part deux

another day, another big batch of cookies. I looooooooove the neiman marcus urban legend cookies. Surely you got that email 8 years ago. you know the one, with the man/woman who ate a meal at neiman marcus department store, and loved the cookies so much that he/she asked for the recipe, and was told [...]

know what I hate worse than ants??

mondays. bleah.

************* sweet Jane St. Clair

We have a grad student doing a rotation in our lab who’s very sweet, and her name is Jane. Now I can’t get that damned song out of my head every time I say her name.

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaane, divided, but I can’t decide what side I’m on Jaaaaaaaaaaaaane [...]

Sweet Sunday

Woke up early this morning to get to church before the choir all had to be there, so I could warm up on my trombone. Amazingly, I had some extra time to have some breakfast before I left, so I decided to pour myself a bowl of…

ANTS!!!!!

Fuck. Spent my extra time throwing [...]

chocolate saturday

Busy busy busy busy day.

10am – dress rehearsal for our choir service of music. still putting my trombone skills to good use – I haven’t embarassed myself, at least.

12:15pm – on a tip from a woman at curves, I find a store called Amtrec. It’s a warehouse – you know all those [...]

titillating quickie

I am at the tail end (literally) of my underwear laundry cycle. Kev did a load of my delicates for me last night (isn’t he a sweetie) but they weren’t dry by this morning.

result: I am wearing a purple satin g-string under my jeans.

hope everyone is having THAT good a friday!

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checklist

Good lord, I have a wedding checklist already.

wedding dress – check! Aimee is making it for me! HOW AWESOME IS SHE????

maid of honor – check! talked with my best friend Jenni last night until after 1am. even though I don’t have a date yet, she said she would be my MoH. Hooray! [...]

rrrrrrrinnnnggggg!!!!

So the ring has been selected and ordered! It will arrive by the 17th.

Yes, Kev described it to me.

No, I’m not sharing those details with you. You will just have to wait for pictures. Why? ’cause I’m mean like that, that’s why.

I am also super emotional. Good lord, the past couple [...]

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