I’m not sure why, but I just can’t seem to get into the Christmas spirit this season.  Neither of us has an ax looming over our jobs, so no worries there.  We have a bunch of stuff we posted on craigslist and got a lot of inquiries, so there is some extra potential Christmas money [...]

More buggy talk coming up… I called the exterminating company that did our Termidor treatment four years ago, and the earliest appointment they have is tomorrow between 12n-2p… and that is just to do an inspection, it’s unlikely they would do any treatment the same day. In the meantime, the dirt tunnels the termites are [...]

Recently we got a good amount of rain, over Thanksgiving.  I guess it hasn’t rained here on Thanksgiving in like 12 years, but anyway… Rain usually brings out the bugs, particularly those that lay dormant and hiding for a while.  And more specifically…. termites. Four years ago we had our house treated with Termidor, and [...]

I was essentially off work for five days for Thanksgiving weekend, starting with Wednesday and ending Sunday.  But it was by no means restful.  I think the slowest days  I had were Wednesday and Sunday. Wednesday was originally supposed to be a day for me to work from home so I could attend a special [...]

Remember that thing that went missing last month? Well, not missing anymore.  She found me, and she is so NOT being nice to me.

Traffic was bad this morning no matter which freeway we could have gone on, but we opted to choose the one that didn’t have a closure on an adjoining freeway.  It has a frontage road next to it, which we quickly exited onto before we got caught in the bumper to bumper slowness.

To my recollection, I have never received a flu shot, not even while I was pregnant with the Kiddo.  I *almost* got one then, I stood in line at a nearby grocery store only to find out they only had shots for non-pregnant adults and elderly.  By then I saw no point at having to [...]

We’re having gnocchi with marinara sauce & steamed broccoli tonight.  Yum!  Well, I hope so, anyway. We’ve never had gnocchi before, and I’ll be making it myself – the easy way, with instant potatoes instead of fresh potatoes that I have to peel, cut, boil & mash/rice to a pulp.  I don’t have that much [...]

I should be figuring out what this week’s meals are going to be.  But I’m not. I should be making a shopping list.  But I’m not, I just don’t feel like it.  And I don’t even know what we’ll be cooking this week yet due to the first item above. I should be compiling a [...]

We went to a fall festival yesterday morning, with my husband’s brother & family, and their mom.  It was fun, and the temperature outside was just beautiful.  We actually started out wearing light jackets (well, the girls – the Kiddo and her cousins, and myself, anyway) since it was in the mid 60s and breezy.