Stuology

I’m feeling tired, dizzy and crippled with a headache. I’ve managed to do a few small things, but mostly, I’ve been sitting around reading and catching up online. My big mistake for today was turning on the television. I wanted to watch one show that was recorded, which I did, but after it was over [...]

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Here is all the house tasks, aside from normal cleaning, that have gotten done since I stopped working 50 hours / week: Had the outside of the house painted. This was all done by my BIL and a friend. Installed new outside house lights and house numbers. Painted the kids’ room and shelves, the kids’ [...]

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This is the week of three Thanksgiving meals and one Thanksgiving lunch. I’m only cooking 1 1/2 of them, plus some desserts for Thursday. The good part is that there is enough leftovers from tonight to feed us tomorrow. If there aren’t enough leftovers for Tuesday, I’m going to make sandwiches–perhaps toasted cheese and tomato [...]

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I got rid of a weekend long headache about 30 minutes ago. I ate sushi yesterday. Yokohama yummy! I cleaned out my closet. I removed three trash bags full of stuff. Everything is neatly organized once again. I also cleaned out my bathroom drawers. The nail polish had to be moved due to overflowing its [...]

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Yes, I drink wine based on label I was drinking this before 5:00pm. I would have opened it earlier if my brain would have recalled that I had it in my wine rack. Today was one of my bad days. I have them, although thankfully they are rare and not devastating. I may not be [...]

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Today I am making a whole chicken in the slow cooker. You of course do not get nice crisp skin like you can when you oven roast it, but you get really tender chicken without having to brine it. What I do is slice a medium onion into rings and layer then on the bottom [...]

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The beta of Adobe Lightroom 3 came out recently. I installed it today. I’m excited for the release just for the Publish Services alone. Yippee for Flickr uploading without having to load up Flickr Uploadr. It cuts out one small step. I will give it a try the next time I take a photo, which [...]

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First Snow We went from 60-70 degree weather to snow in a couple of days. Ah well, this isn’t atypical. It feels really cold outside probably due to the wet snow. Dinner tonight is going to be an oven braised Boston Butt (pork shoulder). I’m using OK Joe’s rub and adding liquid smoke to the [...]

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Ada wanted me to read a story to her before bed. This is a bedtime ritual, but tonight, I decided to make up a story. After I was done, Ada wanted to do her story. It went like this: Once upon a time there was a mommy kitty with [whiskers]* and long ears. She came [...]

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I was sitting in the living room when I heard a loud boom and a little shake of the house. I said, “Was that thunder?” It is raining, but there has been no thunder or lightning. Then I thought that maybe there is a boulder rolling down the street or my neighbor’s house exploded. It [...]

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