Happy New Year

1.1.09

I know. Fabulous blog post title, eh? I'm so original. First, before I wish you a Happy New Year, etc., etc., I simply must give you an update on Kitchen Construction (Day 14). Because I know you've been dying, literally lying awake at night wondering, how's it going? Is it near ...

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My Christmas without a kitchen

12.24.08

So as of last Friday, I am sans kitchen. I'm ecstatic, joyful, giddy and, quite honestly, a bit shocked. The Great Kitchen Renovation project has begun. I've lived with Functional Kitchen for ten years, and now I'm getting Beautiful Kitchen. To heck with function. I want to look at pretty ...

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I would call it Zeke Cam

12.5.08

How much fun would it be to have one of these? Oh, to document my galloping adventures! Oh, the insane fun YouTube videos I would create! (And it would force me to tolerate a helmet. Protected head - good. Bump on head - bad.) What say you, Santa? Help a girl out ...

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Zeke and I

11.29.08

Guess what I did today? Sorry for the washed out image, but I just had to share, like I'm a proud mama showing off her baby. This is my Zeke. Okay, truthfully he's only mine for the two hour rental. But it sort of counts, right? Don't let his laid back apprearance ...

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Cut me? I bleed coffee (No, I don’t know what monkey pee tastes like, just work with me here.)

10.27.08

We are serious coffee drinkers in this house. We buy green beans via the Internet, roasting them in this space-age looking contraption that sits on my kitchen counter, filling the house with an unmistakable smell that says, "Coffee lovers snobs live here." I grew up on English breakfast tea with milk ...

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