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Cookbooks

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

One of the things that I really enjoy reading through in cook books. I’ve heard that cook books are the biggest money maker in the retail book business. I guess that makes sense; most of the other books that one would want to read could easily be borrowed from a library, but when you find a cook book that you really like, you would want to keep it.

I love to look at the pictures of the recipes and imagine how great they would taste. I wish that I had time to fix most of them; but reality is that I’ll probably never have the time or energy to even prepare one tenth of one percent of them. I probably really should stop buying them. But it is so hard to resist!

Online a Lot

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Thanks to Lemuel Craft

I’ve been researching satellite internet in my area because getting internet at the house is the last thing I haven’t done yet. I moved in about a month ago and I LOVE the place but it needed a lot of work so I basically spent the last few weeks of my life, nights and weekends, doing renovations and fixing the place up, you know? So anyway, I think it’s great so many people tried to buy this place and I won the bidding war but at the end of the day is it okay that I paid so much for it? I don’t know. Only time will tell if I can get out of it what I’ve put in but I really love it here and I can actually see myself living here for a while to come which makes me think it’s worth it regardless. I know it’s all about whether or not you’re comfortable in your house and I can honestly say this place really does feel like home.

Safety at home when you are not there

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

Thanks to Lemuel Craft

Everyone has left the house in a hurry in the morning on the way to work. You are running to catch the train or jump in the car to sit in traffic and you are in such a hurry that you forget to turn something off at home. You have to turn around and go all the way back just to have the peace of mind that you did in fact turn off the coffee pot this morning on the rush out the door. If you are anything like me when you get back to the house the thing you were worried about was already turned off. One thing that you don’t have to worry about turning off or on when you leave the house is your wireless home security system. You can run out the door without setting it and then set it from your phone once you are in the car or train or bus or whatever your mode of transportation. This is quite possibly the coolest part of having ADT is being able to control it from my smart phone.

Drove me batty

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Well, I did not get much sleep last night! I woke up around 1am, hearing a fluttering noise above my head! It was a bat! I totally freaked out, turned on all of the lights and tried to find it to get it out of the house. Of course, just my luck, I couldn’t find the durn thing at all. Once the lights came on, the little creep hid somewhere. So, I kept all of the lights on the rest of the night, and didn’t sleep a wink! I may never turn the lights off at night again!

The groundhog says

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Groundhog sees his shadow From what I understand the groundhog is calling for a late spring. I hope he is wrong, but I have to say that the winter has been much milder than usual this year, so if it stays this mild then I really won’t care about how late spring is. There have been fewer school cancellations because of winter weather this year so far, which I’m sure upsets the school children to no end. It has been a long time since school cancellations affected my family, but I can imagine the disappointment that a lot of kids would be sharing if they don’t get the chance to build at least one snow man or snow fort and have a good snowball fight!