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  • May
    2020
    12
    2020 / May / 12

    Adventures in Lockdown: That Time the Washer Caught Fire

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: appliances, laundry, lowes, shopping

    There have been times during our shelter-in-place adventure when I’ve been really good about staying on top of laundry and housework. Most of early May was not any of those times.

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  • Apr
    2020
    19
    2020 / Apr / 19

    Adventures in Lockdown: All About That Bake

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown, Foodstuffs
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: baking, Bundt, cake, covid19, lockdown

    Our shelter-in-place directive went into effect at midnight on March 16, 2020. Since I am all about the stress-bake, here is a list of the cakes I’ve made since then.

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  • Apr
    2020
    13
    2020 / Apr / 13

    Cabbage Rolls are Polish Tacos

    • posted in Foodstuffs
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: Imperfect produce, Meatless Monday, Polish food, vegan

    Once upon a time it was last Tuesday and I had an Imperfect cabbage so instead of making tacos I made this plant-based version of a meat thing my mom used to make for us.

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  • Mar
    2020
    26
    2020 / Mar / 26

    Adventures in Lockdown: Cutting My Husband’s Hair

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown, Relationships
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: covid19, hair, lockdown, marriage

    On March 16, 2020, six Bay Area counties received word that, beginning at midnight, a shelter-in-place directive would be in effect to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

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  • Nov
    2019
    13
    2019 / Nov / 13

    Pumpkin Spice Tacos

    • posted in Foodstuffs
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: Imperfect produce, pumpkin spice, tacos

    At the beginning of PSL Season, a bunch of people started reposting this:

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  • Oct
    2019
    24
    2019 / Oct / 24

    The Poop Thief

    • posted in Dogs
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, dogs, Gilfoyle

    One of the best things about being a dog mom is the amount of time and energy you get to spend monitoring poop. In case you ever worry that my life is getting too glamorous.

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  • Oct
    2019
    23
    2019 / Oct / 23

    This can’t possibly end well

    • posted in Incidentals
    • / with 0 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, common sense

    I admit, I’m kind of a slob. My desk is a disaster. There are usually about 147 things on it, only 8 of which are strictly necessary to my workflow.

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  • Oct
    2019
    22
    2019 / Oct / 22

    These were the good old days?

    • posted in Perspectives
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, music

    In the interest of not going completely insane due to my dogs barking at every single thing that has the audacity to make any kind of a sound outside of our house, I play music via the iHeartRadio app through the living room TV so it’s audible throughout the house.

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  • Oct
    2019
    16
    2019 / Oct / 16

    Suzanne Somers was naked today…

    • posted in Being Naked in Public
    • / with 2 comments
    • / tags: ageism, nude

    …and a whole bunch of people lost their shit.

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    Here I am at 73 in my Birthday Suit!!!

    A post shared by Suzanne Somers (@suzannesomers) on Oct 16, 2019 at 10:07am PDT

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  • Oct
    2019
    13
    2019 / Oct / 13

    So I DID write a blog post yesterday…

    • posted in Rants
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    • / tags: blogtober

    Granted, it wasn’t great literature, but it was a post, and it was written before midnight, and it would have kept me on track for only being one post behind on Blogtober.

    And then it vanished.

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  • Oct
    2019
    11
    2019 / Oct / 11

    Word Cloud Treasures

    • posted in Incidentals
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    • / tags: blogtober, word cloud

    I was looking at the word cloud on Ye Olde Blog today. The widget I chose allows a fair amount of customization, but is still, at the end of the day, a thing built to randomize shit.

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  • Oct
    2019
    10
    2019 / Oct / 10

    Before you judge my asshole dog…

    • posted in Dogs
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: blogtober, dogs, Gilfoyle, mental health

    You know those dogs that aren’t quite like other dogs? The ones with malformed or missing limbs, or mangled faces, or no eyes? You see those dogs, be it in real life or on the Internet, and you know some shit went down somewhere. Birth defect, injury, abuse, something went very wrong at some point in each of those dog’s lives and rendered them different dogs than nature intended.

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