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I had a great birthday yesterday. We went to my favorite dinner spot and had a fun meal, and then we came home and had some cake which my fabulous husband baked for me (because you can’t get a bakery to make yellow cake which is my favorite): Why yes, that is a Barbie candle.…

It’s been a really hard day, lots of work and family stuff to do, including a not-very-fun meeting at my kid’s school bringing more to worry about, and I still haven’t gotten our Xmas pictures printed out… so I’m pretty stressed out. On the bright side, I found this fabulous yarn at my LYS called…

We never did get to the Stitch ‘n Bitch, darn it. I had to finish up my Sweet Potato Bread Pudding for dinner at a friend’s house so I couldn’t get down there. Nevertheless, I did get some more work done on the Irish Hiking Scarf… I dragged it along to breakfast, I invited it…

I find lots of my favorite recipes in magazines and recently I’ve become very enamored of Cuisine at Home. Of the 10 dishes I cooked over Thanksgiving weekend, 3 of them came from their November issue, and one of them was so popular I’ve made it for every gathering this year, always to rave reviews.…

My friend posted in her blog yesterday that domesticity was the New Black. Seeing this brought up a bunch of forgotten emotions left over from my teenage years, which I spent feeling like I was feverishly running in a hamster wheel, trying unsuccessfully to catch up with the Cool Kids, constantly riding the back end…

The day I decided to start knitting (because my visiting friend was so enthusiastic) we went to one of the LYS’s around here, The Golden Fleece. It’s a pretty nice place, but they’re remodeling and their book section was a little parched. I bought some nifty cotton yarn and 3 books there, including one called…

Here’s a picture of the turkey from Thanksgiving taken by my FriendWhoCallsMeMartha. I’m very fond of cooking for large groups because it gives me a chance to try new dishes. I go with a CYA approach which involves cooking enormous numbers of recipes so that if one of them doesn’t work no one goes hungry.…

After growing up pretty much completely uninterested in anything domestic, I have turned into some kind of domestic fiend. In the hopes of sparing other people from my fate (or easing their transition into it), I’m going to join the infinite online blogverse and add my $0.02 to share all the fabulous insights (and dumb…

I pointed my other site to this site so I thought I should probably do a quick update on how I’m doing with my lap band. My lap band was inserted on 7/27/2001. In the first year I lost 72 pounds. I got down below 200 but have since regained back up to 220 (I…