Whipped Out

My office is in the third floor of my house, and has slanted ceilings. I share the room with a treadmill, a weight stack, and really bad lighting. The lighting is the next project in my list.
But since I have a book to write, I wanted to do something fun and easy to make my [...]

A good friend of mine is having hella-mondo-goddam-crap surgery today to remove a massive and likely cancerous tumor on her uterus, and to explore various other freakass things that appeared on her MRI. So in honor of her uterus, which is coming out today, I scoured Etsy for Things People Really Should Not Have Made. [...]

This is a short week for Hubby and me. We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary on the 28th, and so my in-laws are taking the kids AND the dogs and Hubby and I are taking a trip to Quebec City. Our menu for the week is three nights long with a planned night for takeout or [...]

This weekend I tried a new dish for dinner for Hubby and me, and it was so fast and so good, I am going to add it to the week night menu options.
I was searching for recipes with beans and sausage, since I want to eat as much fiber as possible, and I wanted to [...]

I almost forgot about the weekly menu (again) because I’m currently in Toronto, where I’ll be until Tuesday. So, of course, that means an abbreviated menu this week, but I still need to cook the last part of the week, so let’s see…
Wednesday: pork chops. On the grill if it’s nice, in the oven if [...]

My friend E. is the mom of 2 toddlers. She’s also pregnant w/her third child and has just been put on bedrest. Yikes! Thankfully, her husband works from home so he can help out, but the biggest challenge is meal ideas. Here’s what she has to say:

I am drawing a blank when it comes [...]

Jaci Burton and I are still facing off in the Garden Off (Up for grabs: manicures at RWA Nationals), and here’s my May 2010 update. Only… not all my plants are here yet. I think it’s too cold yet for me to plant some of them so the nursery hasn’t shipped them. But here’s an [...]

Greetings from Michelle in Ohio, whose garden is looking pretty spiffy. And colorful.
Garden plot # 2 with tomatoes and bell peppers planted (garden plot #1 has the peas in it and I’m planting squash it in this week, and in June I’ll be putting cucumbers in #2 to go with the peppers and tomatoes).

Beefsteak [...]

Tot has a piano recital in June. While the tot’s current preferences lean toward t shirts and shirts, her piano teacher and I were able to convince the tot that she needed to wear a nice dress.  We looked through various patterns and decided on this one from butterick. I thought the contrast between the [...]

In our May reports in the Garden Off, Renae reports a difficult April with epic huge plants to show for it.
Everything that can have gone wrong so far has, including getting in trouble with the landlord for using the hose, running out of money for potting soil, rain every weekend, a little black fly [...]