Posts from ‘January, 2010’

On my way home from work last night, the radio informed me that temperatures in Albany this weekend are going to be freeze-your-face-off cold with a wind chill of 15 to 20 below zero. Read that again: below zero.
Fun.
I hate the cold. It makes me feel hopeless. How do I cure these chilly and depressing [...]

Merry lunch break, all! I am loving Friday in a major way. This week has been nutzo for me: my hours have been cut at one of my jobs, I got two flat tires on the same day, I’ve been waiting for a very important phone call, and Mint.com keeps sending me emails along the [...]

Sometimes I am just TOO funny with my titles…
Thanks to The Boyfriend’s mother I have recently come into possession of a crock pot.  Last night I did a quick search of crock pot recipes, but I quickly became overwhelmed and abandoned ship.  There are LOTS of recipes out there for slow cookers — too [...]

The Boyfriend is from New York City and whenever we visit he likes to burst out with “New York, New York, the city so nice they named it twice!” while we’re walking down the street.  Lately he has also taken to doing a rendition of Jay-Z and Alicia Key’s “Empire State of Mind.”  It’s a [...]

I don’t know where this week has gone.  It seems like Christmas was yesterday. I’ve been off in La La Land a little, but now I’m back home and ready for a holiday recap!

After presents Christmas morning, my mother got to work on Christmas dinner.  The main course was Cornish game hens:

Jack gave her some [...]