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  1. I have no voice. Literally, not metaphorically. The kids keep asking me to "pretend [i'm] in a box." At least I can still give "the look."

    1. Snickerdoodle

      Snickerdoodle

      Oh dear. Get better soon. Getting sick is no fun!

    2. Isabella

      Isabella

      Unfortunately the 'look' often doesn't work as well!

  2. Cooking my first leg of lamb today... braised in red wine sauce. Usually the only Easter-y thing we do is buy some discounted chocolate the day after, but there was a good sale on lamb. :)

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    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      Six. And a nice cabernet would always be appreciated. :)

    3. nmoira

      nmoira

      Shoot. I've been fighting something all week, and I'm only now almost down for the count. Good thing everything's prepped and the meal's more or less on autopilot now.

    4. Snickerdoodle

      Snickerdoodle

      Oh dear. Hopefully you won't get super sick!

       

  3. Darned kids. Engaged in intense imaginative play right before school's supposed to start. An hour later and they're still going strong.

    1. sassenach

      sassenach

      Aw, I love that, but it does derail the day.

    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      It wasn't pretty near the end, but we got it done. :D Now there're off playing again.

  4. Tonight is a two glass o' wine night. To Kay. :(

  5. 44-clove garlic soup... here I come. :D

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    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      No yoga... pub trivia. I'll fit right in. :D

       

      It's Smitten Kitchen's recipe, and it turned out nicely. Usually what I call "garlic soup" is a quick snack of smashed cloves cooked in a bit of chicken stock and served over a bit of crumbled toast and parmesan.

    3. Dana

      Dana

      We love garlic here...I'll use a bulb in stock...or in meatballs...but 44 cloves seems like quite a lot!

    4. nmoira

      nmoira

      Not over four servings. :P Plus, it ends up quite mild in soup.

  6. I want my hour back.

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    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      It's the one day of the year I wish I lived in Arizona.

    3. Dolphin

      Dolphin

      me too, and the blue sky too please!

       

    4. amsunshine
  7. I scored three pounds of Parmigiano Reggiano today for $10 a pound. Oh, the (culinary) places we can go...

    1. charcat13

      charcat13

      Sweet. Or should I say a bit salty.

  8. DD the Elder sold 100 boxes of GS cookies this weekend. Done until next year.... yay! :D

  9. Six screens to cancel my Audible membership? Please, you're just provoking me. My last credits went to the complete and unabridged Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples and The Twelve Caesars. :D

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    2. RootAnn

      RootAnn

      Thanks for the reminder. I noticed I had a new credit arrive & 3 already banked. I need to spend & then cancel.

    3. lisabees

      lisabees

      Umm...please explain the reason for canceling. What don't I know?

    4. nmoira

      nmoira

      I only cancelled the membership subscription, not the account. Since I listen more often to podcasts than audio books, it's more cost effective to purchase the occasional book at full price.

  10. Kickin' back and listening to Stan Rogers with the kids. Life is good.

  11. A pound of bacon in the fridge with today's date on it. What to do? What to do? :D

  12. My eyes hurt. Feeling a bit like Burgess Meredith in that Twilight Zone episode.

  13. DH has the WD-40 out. Yup... living that manly vibe. :P

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    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      :D

       

      Our new washer is coming today. Yay! But it's a small laundry room and we have to take the dryer out before the washer can be exchanged,. DH was charged with removing the door. He got to use the WD-40 AND a hammer AND a screwdriver. "His Manliness" is now off watching The Hobbit with my eldest, most likely having foraged some popcorn and a bottle of water for himself and his daughter before settling down in his seat.

    3. nmoira

      nmoira

      OMG. He's having trouble with the dryer vent pipe and he's taken out the drill! I've sent the kids upstairs so they don't learn any new words (they're wordly enough already).

    4. pdalley

      pdalley

      Your DH must be brother to mine, LOL

  14. Love is handwashing your family's underwear. (We won't have a washing machine until next week.)

    1. beaners

      beaners

      I'd show my love by buying everyone enough underwear to tide you over until then.

    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      I'd be inclined if the new washer weren't so darned expensive. They'd more than doubled in price since the last time we purchased one, so I still have sticker shock.

    3. beaners

      beaners

      In that case, I'd just make everyone wash their own underwear!

  15. How is it that my kids are only just now hearing "I'm a Lumberjack" for the first time? I'm a bad parent.

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    2. KAR120C

      KAR120C

      What, you don't have the whole boxed set playing constantly in the background?? ;)

    3. elegantlion
    4. nmoira

      nmoira

      I know... I already said I was a bad mom. But I can be better....

  16. There's a hole in my ignore bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza; There's a hole in my ignore bucket, dear Liza, a hole. But not for long.

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    2. Elizabeth in MN

      Elizabeth in MN

      Oh my, what a passive-aggressive post. But I'm sure you can't read this since you fixed the hole. Like this wouldn't post to the front page...

    3. nmoira

      nmoira

      Surprise. I see you. (Though I'm not surprised that I see you.) FWIW, I blocked on poster, and not because I disagree with them.

    4. nmoira

      nmoira

      Oops. "one"

  17. Matt Berry + Portlandia = Woo hoo! Too bad I don't have cable. Well, not really... It's an excuse to go over to a friend's with a bottle of wine.

  18. Brave or foolhardy: walking home with three dozen eggs, leading a dog, on black ice?

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    2. nmoira

      nmoira

      And hot coffee. :D

       

    3. nmoira

      nmoira

      But I'm glad I didn't have to drive in it. Scary stuff. Did you have to go far?

    4. PollyOR

      PollyOR

      12 - Ignorance was bliss the first few miles :) Now I'm thinking rain isn't so bad.

       

  19. The definition of frustration: Trying to explain to a technical neophyte the difference between Chrome OS, Chrome browser on computers, and the Chrome browser app to explain why you can't install apps from the Chrome Web Store on an Android tablet. Argh!

    1. Critterfixer

      Critterfixer

      "What?" she admitted.

    2. Unicorn.

      Unicorn.

      What Critterfixer said!

    3. nmoira

      nmoira

      Exactly. :)

  20. The girls have spent the better part of two days designing skins for the Minecraft characters. It's amazing what they've come up with given the constraints.

  21. My "big" Christmas present just dispatched: Peep Show Series 8. I can hardly wait the two-ish weeks it'll take to get here.

  22. Zero unread items in Google Reader. Zero unread items in my inbox (and a plethora of new filters to help keep it that way). Ha! Starting my New Year's resolutions early.

    1. ILiveInFlipFlops

      ILiveInFlipFlops

      Good for you! I discovered the beauty of email filters myself a few weeks ago. So helpful! Don't you love starting with a clean slate?

  23. Saw A Midsummer Night's Dream with DD the Elder and some friends this afternoon, her first live Shakespeare. An amazing production. Bottom was played to great effect as a good ole boy (think O Brother, Where Art Though?, replete with singing), and the rest of the cast was first rate.

  24. I just deleted 10 of my Amazon wishlists... feeling a bit giddy.

    1. swimmermom3

      swimmermom3

      Were these books? If they were books, how did you have the courage?

    2. quark

      quark

      Wow! I agree with swimmermom3. That takes guts! :)

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