05.31.06
Pattern Theft
If you are a pattern writer, beware of a guy repackaging other people’s patterns and selling them on eBay.
http://www.zibibboisgood.com/archives/2006/05/mi_pero.html
Mean people suck.
05.28.06
Motoring West on Route 66 - In Reverse
So, if you haven’t figured it out already, we’re moving. Later this summer we’ll be heading East on Old Route 66… or I-40 if you aren’t familiar with the Interstate System.
We’re selling the house, selling all our stuff that we don’t need (which is A LOT), throwin’ the cat in the back (okay, we’re not going to really throw her), and starting our life together in Washington DC. It’s going to be a blast! I’m going to have a new job, which will be fun and stressful at the same time. Ed (yes, E does have a real name) will be doing various interesting things.
In order to minimize our moving costs, we’re selling a lot of stuff that we don’t really need. Check out our Ebay lists (see my sidebar) and shop for stuff you want - cheap! (Save on shipping if you’re local.) My list is mostly music and movies, and Ed has a lot of geeky stuff (computers, cables, audio equipment, and other stuff I don’t understand).
It’s going to be hard to leave Arizona, but it’s time to move back to the east, where the summers aren’t like living in a convection oven, and trips to see my mom don’t break the bank. I’m going to miss all of my friends here, and my West Coast family. That’s the tough part.
I guess I’m going to have to make boucoup $$ and become a world traveller!
If you ever plan to motor west,
travel my way, take the highway that’s the best.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
It winds from Chicago to LA,
more than two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on Route six-six.
Now you go through Saint Louis
Joplin, Missouri,
and Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty.
You see Amarillo,
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Don’t forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.
Won’t you get hip to this timely tip:
when you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
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Won’t you get hip to this timely tip:
when you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
Get your…on
Get your…on
Get your…on
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
05.21.06
Eat Local Challenge, 2006
A Recipe for a Challenge
Add together:
Urban sprawl and a job with long hours stir and bake at 100+ degree temperatures in May. |
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Not an ideal situation for attempting to eat locally in Phoenix, and yet, I signed up for the challenge. Literally.
Last year I participated in the Eat Local Challenge initiated by the Locavores, and brought to blog land by Jen of Life Begins at 30. Liz got the knitters organized, and I embarked on a journey that has strengthened my convictions about community and place.
This year, I’ve joined Jen again, for more local food blogging. This time, the Eat Local Challenge will be different for me. I’ve decided that my Personal Challege will focus on local, independent restaurants. I will continue to follow the Locavore Pledge, but my blogging focus will center on independent restaurants (and shops), and the politics of being an independent, in a world that has such a corporate focus.
My goal is to make this a year-round project, and with all the life-changing events going on, I hope my local food posts are a regular event around here.
05.14.06
May 13, 2006
By all accounts, I am reasonably smart. I’ve got a couple of degrees under my belt, I read a lot, and I listen to NPR. But for someone with smarts, I can be a real dope sometimes.
Ed ordered lobster from Maine on Wednesday. Not terribly out of the blue, since we had planned to have a lobster dinner a few months ago, and because of some bad weather on the East Coast, it had been cancelled. He asked if I wanted to have a date on Saturday, and who am I to turn down a lobster dinner?
Saturday started out as a pretty normal day. The lobster arrived at 10:30 via FedEx. Yippie! Lobster for dinner! We continued the day with a host of errands and arrived home in the late afternoon after picking up a few last things at the grocery store. I planned to make some cupcakes and got started on them soon after arriving home. (More on those later.) I cleaned up my cupcake mess as much as possible, and I left the kitchen to allow E space to begin seafood prep.
Fast forward to dinner.
We’d eaten all of the crab claws by the time the camera came out, but the mussels lasted a few extra minutes. Mussels in white wine broth, yum!
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05.12.06
Quote of the Day
On a bumper sticker at City Bakery:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi