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Front page! Woo-hoo!
Posted Jul 4, 2008
My mole recipe is back on the front page.
In other news, yesterday I was able to open the windows for the first time since the solstice lightening storm fires started. The smoke has been thick, but now we are getting a breeze through the valley. What a relief.
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HooToo Birthday
Posted Jun 6, 2008
My ps is one year old! 
Let's see, I have three edited entries, not much, maybe I should try harder this year. 
Made a few friends and met one in RL. (Hi-ya, Amy!)
Oh and I make the Thingite monthly calendar, sometimes a little late, sometimes with an extra day.
It's been fun. Let's do it again!
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Inflorescence 2008
Posted May 15, 2008
What a difference a month makes. It's about 6 in the morning here and already it's nearly 58 degrees (around 14) and supposed to get up to 99 (37). Outside our ponds are filled with lilly pads and flowers, I hope the 
are enjoying it, I certainly am.
Yesterday was Mr. Nerd's and my 14th anniversary. 
So we worked, what with it being midweek and all, but started out the morning with a small glass of and had another once we were both back home. 
We're still doing the trips to clear out his late father's house. We're now down to the layer that Mr. Nerd remembers from his childhood. It's amazing how much a dedicated pack-rat can accumulate and certainly an object lesson to us all about consumption. You can't take it with you, and if you aren't using it, get it to someone who can before it breaks, molders, rusts, spoils, or otherwise becomes useless. Much of the stuff was rubbish and went to the dump, but everything still useful but otherwise unclaimed/unwanted by one of the surviving children has gone to charity.
But it hasn't been all that. Last weekend we attended a craft beer festival - as venders no less. What were we vending? Fun - we were part of a musical act. 
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Mattress (2008) is in My Mistress' Face
Posted Apr 9, 2008
This month is going slightly better. At work I got a promotion, a raise, and a slew of new responsibilities for which I am not yet trained. On the chocolate front, I have made 3 - yes, count them, 3 - batches of truffles in the past couple of weeks, up from zero since the family crisis. Gave most of them away, but actually sold (at material cost only) a couple pounds. Slowly easing my way back into the swing of things.
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In like a griffin, out like an iguana?
Posted Mar 7, 2008
Trudge 2008 is turning out to be an interesting month, full of opportunities to drop everything and run off to do either fun things or decidedly not fun things, or stay home and do other fun or not fun things, but nonetheless things that scream to be done.
Fun Things In No Particular Order:
1) hanging out with husband
2) sports,
3) music
4) beer
5) crafts
6) writing
7) reading - I just finished Terry Pratchett's Making Money
8) hiking
9) cooking
It's great when I can combine some of these.
Decidedly Not Fun Things That Nonetheless Must Be Done:
1) Assembling scraps of paper in preparation for that great American Spring festival - Taxes
2) helping with the clean-up at my late father-in-law's place (we are making headway here).
3) bills, housework, diet and exercise
Outstanding projects:
1) the Jefferson state entry
2) a rather ridiculous number of sewing or quilting projects
3) a fairly ridiculous number of gardening/home-improvement projects
4) the annual American festival of scrounging up receipts and assembling them in a coherent manner.
Oh and then there's work. It's really hard to tell if I hate it or not. I like some of the people I work with and attempt to avoid others, where I can't avoid them I try at least to get along unless that proves impossible. I like being productive, doing a good job, learning new things and getting good at them. I hate pretty nearly everything else.
And then there's the chocolate. Can't forget the chocolate, even if I have no way to do anything about it right now. No one who knows me can let me forget the chocolate either, because they like it and want it and ask me about it all the time.
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