Our new bed arrived on Friday. It’s niiiice.
We had the frame raised by 4 inches because Murphee likes to sleep under the bed. They did the adjustment for free, but when the delivery guys showed up they discovered that the support legs that go along the middle of the bed (it’s a king sizer) [...]
This year we forwent heading up to Lopez Island for a progressive (house-to-house) Thanksgiving meal, or driving down to Portland for a veggie lasagna feast. Instead we mashed up well over 15 pounds of potatoes (13 giant baking taters in a bag for something like $1.50 at Sam’s Club) with roasted garlic and parmesan cheese, [...]
I’m in a turkey stupor, trying to think back over the past ten days to try to fill in the huge blank spot on this poor bloggety-blog. I managed to get back as far as … yesterday! Not too bad! I’ll change the date, like this, so that this appears as if I am/was writing [...]
Ahhh, the wonderful world of glucose testing. Four times a day for seven days. But, I am very happy to say the past three days have been within the “allowable” numbers for normal glucose blood levels. YAY! I have also been very good and have not been eating anything with wheat, simple carbs or fruit. [...]
Here’s the exact same recipe that I didn’t want to follow and decided to revamp: Pan-Poached Alaskan Salmon Piccata.
I was just thinking earlier today about Myst and Riven and how the first and third games were so fun. I didn’t consciously progress to wishing for a fourth Myst game, but maybe my subconscious worked some powerful Mojo. I just found an ad for Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which is due in stores this [...]
We went to our monthly check up with Dr. Tracy and had my gestational diabetes/glucose test done. They take a blood draw, then you have to drink a sugar drink, which tasted exactly like Mountain Dew — reminded me of my caffeinated, 3+ hour marathon practice sessions at Northwestern — anyway, then they take another [...]
Well, neither Rona nor I can bend a ball like Beckham, but we do like Aloo Gobi, so I tried Googling the recipe used in the 15-minute featurette on the Bend it Like Beckham DVD, wherein director Gurinder Chadha cooks Aloo Gobi under the watchful eyes of her mom and aunt. I didn’t find the [...]
