The World Surrounding Me

We’re getting started re-doing out downstairs half-bath. We’re still finalizing some choices, but this is roughly what we’re working with: White bead-board-looking cabinet from American Woodmark at Home Depot. Ordering this takes 3+ weeks, but will wind up costing us about the same as the in-stock vanities they had (which we didn’t really like and [...]

Links about having an impact bigger than just me: Child sponsorship in six words. I saw this come across my twitter feed today: can you summarize what it means to sponsor a child in just six words? I tried, but haven’t come up with much. I wrote to our Compassion-sponsored child (in Nicaragua) and our [...]

Recipes and techniques I want to try: Pan-Crisped Potatoes (from Mark Bittman at the NY Times) Roasted chicken breast (cooked with two pans – from The Cooking Loft on FoodTV) While I’m mentioning The Cooking Loft, I also want to try her Mac & Cheese. Chicken & Green Sauce (with tomatillos – this is more [...]

Last night, I realized there’s even more to love about our Tivo. We can now download (or stream?) movies from Amazon (for a fee), and can get to a bunch of free programs, too. The free programs we watched were from Mark Bittman (we’ve enjoyed his cookbooks, occasional television show, blog, and appearances on Spain: [...]

Follow-up to Part 1: Twitter & Flickr – today it’ll be Tivo & Netflix TivoI bought Matt our Tivo for his birthday about 2 years ago. Friends told us “Tivo will revolutionize your life!” and “It will make your tv-viewing so much more efficient.” Turns out, this is one technology that lived up to the [...]

Cupcake-themed art at Etsy. I love this one – zombies chasing after a cupcake. (initially found via notmartha.org) “Fresh Vintage” quilt patterns from Fig Tree & Co. I haven’t tried them yet, but the graphic design calls me. Thimble Blossoms patterns. This looks like the perfect baby quilt (if only I had time to do [...]

Stolen from Carly, who stole it from Emily (who are both my cousins): Directions:1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.2) Select the 4th picture in the folder. (or in my case, because there were no folder, I chose the 4th sub-folder, then the 4th photo in it)3) Explain the [...]

I’ve caught a friend saying the phrase “I like living in the future” a few times recently, mostly times when we’re using some kind of new technology to make our lives easier. I was thinking a bit about that today, trying to decide if I really do like “living in the future” or not. In [...]