Michelle on Jun 25 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I ran across this Ralph Lauren bedding in Elle Decor, and I’m absolutely drooling. However, I did the math on the comforter, four pillowcases, a fitted sheet and a skirt and came up with close to a thousand bucks. [...]
Michelle on Jun 14 2009 | Filed under: The Creative, The Fluff
The weekend has gotten off to a great start. It started for us on Friday, when we went to Sage’s Boy Scout Camp award ceremony and got to hear our local representative, Wayne Christian, speak. He said that the difference between liberals and conservatives is that “liberals like to spend all of your money and [...]
Michelle on Jun 09 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff
A customer used the drive through at a Starbucks in Moline over the weekend. That person paid for his or her drink and the order of the person in the next car. That started a chain reaction of people paying for the next customer’s drinks.
Before it was all over, 160 customers took part.
I Stumbled [...]
Michelle on May 24 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff
I’ve been thinking about how a lot of pregnancies are due to “alpha males” spreading their genetic material around. As for the women, surely it is an expression of our genes that we so frequently choose to procreate with men who offer little hope of security for the family. An Oxford study done in 2004 [...]
Michelle on May 19 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff, The Political, The Recipes
Sage and I had a blast making this cake. The cake itself is very chocolaty, as you can tell from this prizewinning recipe. The frosting is a ganache that I whipped up with some powdered sugar. I saved some of the original stuff for the mud puddles. The sprinkles are cows, which I thought was [...]
Michelle on May 10 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff, The Kids, The Photos
A few minutes ago, I rescued this ladybug from a bucket of some sort of sludge that Greg has left in the front flowerbed. She’s relieved to be on some lemon balm, I think!
I bought another new plant this weekend and then forgot the name of it. We are going to be overrun with [...]
Michelle on Apr 26 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff, The Photos, The Recipes
I’m continuing to love our farmer’s market. Yesterday, we got some cornmeal and some fresh pintos. The fresh ones don’t taste a thing like the dried ones, and they cook in about 30 minutes. So today, I made a pot of beans and a pan of cornbread. The cornbread was a big hit. It is [...]
Michelle on Apr 12 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff, The Kids
I’m sitting here listening to Aaron Goldberg, because his complex jazz tunes make me feel more sophisticated than lonely. My guys went camping, and while I usually welcome the alone time, I’m a bit bummed by Sage not waking up in the morning and doing his egg search around the house. It’ll have to wait [...]
Michelle on Apr 10 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff, The Stuff
I’m listening to Darshannon, from the Celtic Cross CD Hicksville. It’s incredible psytrance with a mixture of bluegrass and eastern sounds, if you can believe it. It works, which is brilliant.
I had dinner with my old principal last night. I was explaining to her why I’m not going into the doctorate program right now. The [...]
Michelle on Apr 06 2009 | Filed under: The Fluff
Every Easter, I give our secretary a little something. Since she’s been on a low-carb diet, the usual cute little basket of candy is out. This took 15 minutes to make. I gradually put some craft glue down one side of the bottle, and just wound the yarn (Cascade 220) around the bottle. Then I [...]
