Stuology

I finally got around to making my black eyed peas, and made a small bowl with some leftover ham with 40 minutes still left of New Year’s Day. Tomorrow, I’m making the rest of them with collard greens, rice*, more leftover ham, and hot sauce. Yum! New Year’s Eve was calm and non-eventful. We had [...]

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Thanks to chernobylred for pointing this out: Have a Melly Cristmas!

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For those of us in Kansas City, I don’t know how much publicity this gets, so here you go: Free Holiday Cab Running Again For the 22nd year, Baptist-Lutheran Medical Center and the Yellow Cab Company will be sponsoring the Holiday Cab program. Kansas City, Missouri – The purpose of the Holiday Cab program is [...]

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I’m sitting by a warm fire, sipping on hot chocolate by the soft glow of a monkey lamp. Thanks to chernobylred for the ginormous bag of warm tummy mix, and to mckitterick for the lamp. It is going in Ada’s room so I can peek on my daughter by the glow of a monkey head*. [...]

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Okay, I’m getting one of these dogs for my next pet.

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First: Thanksgiving Our Thanksgiving was exhausting. We altered our plans to attend the funeral, and headed down to visit my family Saturday and Sunday. Ada ended up getting sick with a fever that reached 102.4. The poor girl was miserable and she let everybody know it. She spent more time crying than not. She didn’t [...]

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We are cancelling our trip to Dave and Buster’s this Saturday. My throat is killing me now, although I could be better by then, but eh. If we can get a babysitter for Ada, we may try to catch the Harry Potter movie. It has been awhile since we’ve gone out to see one. We [...]

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Dave & Busters was fun last night. The best part of it was the weather–still at 69 degrees when we left at 11:00pm. That made the balconies and rooftop bar the most pleasant place to be. They started us off with a game of “find your way through the construction maze to the front door.” [...]

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For sale: kitchen appliances All of these came with our house, so except for the dishwasher, I have no idea of age. Fridge: It has an icemaker in the freezer, but we haven’t used it. It sounds like it is going to explode everytime the motor turns off, but so far, it runs and keeps [...]

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I think that my camera is broken. I’m getting tired, so I didn’t feel like looking into it much, but the lens is stuck and it is making this horrible grinding noise. Hrmmm… My cheesecake–hopefully the last thing that I will make in my crappy oven–is almost cool enough that I can put on the [...]

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