Chicken or the Egg

We roasted cornish game hens for the first time tonight and dinner was a qualified success. They were meant for dinner last night, but the birds were still partially frozen; we ended up gorging on tater tots instead. We underestimated the cooking/resting times and ended up eating the mashed sweet potatoes as the first course [...]

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Batten Down the Hatches

Maine has issued its first hurricane watch in 17 years. Wild. Hurricane Kyle is supposed to hit downeast Maine at some point late tonight or early tomorrow. We’ve had rain since Friday, but nothing intense; fortunately, my town is out of the band expected to get hit the hardest and we’re just under a tropical storm watch. It’s been a while since [...]

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Best Laid Plans

Scratch that.
FUCK.

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My, My, Such a Sweet Thing

Well. I guess all I needed to locate my period was a steak and cheese sub from D’Angelos and half a bag of E.L. Fudge cookies. The resulting stomach cramps from that binge just sent me upstairs in anticipation of some serious toilet-bonding time, but no dice. It was just my womanlies making their overdue appearance. [...]

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Act Naturally

I spilled wine all over the (still) new loveseat tonight, but thankfully it was a pinot grigio and not a merlot. I broke my rule about not eating or drinking anything while sitting on this piece of beige loveliness about two hours after it was delivered and so far, so good. Sure, I’ve had to [...]

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Monkey on my Back

When last I wrote, September was still young and I had just returned from a trip out west. Now the end of the month is rapidly approaching and I’m trying to remember just what I’ve accomplished in the last few weeks. Not much, unless you count passing some kidney stones and I’m trying to pretend [...]

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With Regrets

I went to Seattle and all I got was this lousy sinus infection.
Okay, maybe I also saw an impressionism exhibit at the Seattle Art Musuem, bowled two horrible games, met my friend’s husband, survived and even slightly enjoyed a family dinner (complete with losing-it grandma and pregnant-with-her-third-child-after-losing-custody-of-her-second-not-to-mention-chain-smoking cousin), and drank a lot of Pyramid’s apricot [...]

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