A Day Off…

You know what is even better than having a Friday off of work? Having three Fridays off of work in a row. This Friday is going to be rough. It was a nice treat (and in my opinion well deserved) to have those 3 days off in the last few weeks. First Friday I spent...

my saturday night

… after a day filled with quite a bit of eating and kitty snuggling, I’ve sat down at my computer to do something I haven’t done in what feels like a long while – just do what I want to do for how long I want to do it. I am catching up on some of my favorite blogs I...

Le Creuset

I am excited to report that Mur and I are now the proud owners of this bad boy: Yep – we splurged on this guy a few weekends ago and are so excited to start using it. We compromised and if Mur could get the orange Le Creuset pot, I can get the pear colored kitchen aid...

Happy Birthday, Mama!

Yesterday would have been my Mom’s 60th birthday!  I feel silly I didn’t actually do the math yesterday but for some reason 2010-1950 seemed challenging. Go figure 🙂 I wrote the date most of the day so it was a constant reminder of her birthday which was nice. It...

Vinaigrette

I love to cook! And in addition to loving to cook, I love taking pictures! “But how are they related?” you ask. Good question! There is a fantastic store in town here called Vinaigrette which specializes in olive oils and vinegars from all over the world. There are...

Minnesota Renaissance Fest

As aluded to in the previous post, last weekend I did all things festival. On Saturday after Neighbor Kitty’s model shoot, ‘Pickpic’ and I went to the MN Renaissance Fest. care of here  This gentleman was in our hearts and minds at the door instilling fear into what...

Do I Hear a Yahoo?

I have a new computer! Horay!! And it has a web cam. I’ve always thought web cams were a bit on the silly side. I’ve never really had the need to chat with someone through my computer visually and instead I have found texting or email to be a very suitable...

i love new stuff

Over the weekend I felt like I got things accomplished. I made a Costco run on Saturday which involved getting a step stool to reach the highest parts of my kitchen and ceiling fan cords, gobs and gobs of granola bars and I partook in purchasing 16 chicken breasts....

it's official…

my computer is dead. Not something like the battery wont work or the hard drive is fried, no. The entire stinkin machine is dead. And the worst part? It is something that is faulty within the computer and HP/Compaq admits it and yet won’t fix it. That is the...