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March, 2009

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Weekend Excursion

Four days is pretty much the absolute maximum time I like to be away from home. I love my house, I love my cats, I love working, I love my…

March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

52 Weeks: Beach Bum

Week 3: March 29, 2009 Ah, it’s that time of week again. We are just  back home and I’m still shaking the sand out of my hair, shoes, and everywhere else…

March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: Roasted Pears with Blackberry Sauce

The photo –albeit a bit grainy– really does say it all. What I Used: 1 Pear Handful of blackberries Butter Sugar Vanilla A smidge of white wine Vanilla Icecream What…

March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Eat Happy: Pesto Marinated Steak with Roasted Garlic

I may have told you before that I just started eating steak about 2 years ago, which corresponds exactly with the first summer MysteryMan and I were dating. Because that…

March 27, 2009 | 0 Comments | Read the Full Article

Here and Gone

My life has been a whirlwind this week. I’ve been to Chicago and back already, and MysteryMan and I are leaving for a few days of uninterrupted beach-and-margaritas in Jamaica…

March 25, 2009 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

52 Weeks: If These Hands Could Talk

Week 2: March 22, 2009 I find MysteryMan rolls his eyes much less when I’m not taking a picture of his face. Or else I can’t see him doing it,…

March 22, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Weakness

As far as spending money goes, I can generally hold out when it comes to powertools. I mean, I wore out two hand-me-down drills until I bought the Makita. So while…

March 19, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Beachfront Property

I know, I know… you thought that behind the Memorial House were fields of wheat gently swaying in the breeze… What you didn’t know… and neither did I… is that…

March 14, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Got the Point

So what you guys are saying is… Get off my lazy ass and post more. Which means doing more things that are DIY post worthy, or else you are going…

March 14, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Had to happen sometime…

One universal truth about the world is that not everybody is going to like you. When I first started blogging waybackwhen it was on Xanga, and that was mostly for…

Relief

It’s been getting progressively harder for me to breathe for the last month. During most winters the approach of Spring has been met with cries of sweet-jesus-relieve-us-from-this-frozen-hell.  This year, Spring…

Utterly

I’ve worked for the last eleven days straight, and in the last three have gotten a combined total of about ten hours of sleep… and that’s if you count the half hour I…

Updates

About a year ago someone told me “wielding” was spelled wrong on my header, and it only took me 13 months to update it with something that had proper English….

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