Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you remember the post titled “Sheet Music“? I recieved this little bit of info through email yesterday:
Dear Gina,
The following title(s) is delayed because the publisher is out of stock:
Jane Austen’s World
The publisher has temporarily run out of this item(s). It usually takes between 1 to 8 weeks for us to receive these “publisher out-of-stock” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And the recipe….
2 cups flour1 teaspoon salt3/4 cups chilled butter
Cut the butter into chunks, stir in salt and flour, coating the butter chunks. Use your fingers to work together the butter and flour until the mixture has the grain of cornmeal. Add cold water (I put some in a little bowl with a couple ice [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been making a lot of pies lately, much to the excitement of Dad’s sweet tooth… Dad, as he puts it, is a “pie lover in a house full of cake people.” Unfortunately for him, as he also mentioned, the cake people (Mom and I) are also the cooks in the family. To tell you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Next time you’re bored, have a look around in your kitchen, specifically the refrigerator area. Scan your back yard and flower bed for interesting objects. Perhaps you’ll find an odd shaped carrot, in need of a body and arms… Obviously, the day this veggie pirate came into being, I had a bit of extra time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently stayed the weekend at a friend’s house to watch a movie, and this was our breakfast the next morning. Poppy seed muffins…. made (from scratch?) by the friend’s mother. They were awesome! I mean, AWESOME. No, seriously, I mean they were so awesome, I ate four of them. Now if any of you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My parents gave also gave me a purity ring, not necessarily for Christmas, but around Christmas. After Mom had once suggested a purity ring for me, I scanned the Internet for one I liked, and dropped (not so subtle) hints that I really like the silver one with the pearl on the top…. I didn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Boy, I’ve been a lazy poster lately! I better get back on the computer chair more often! (What say you, Mom?)
Another Christmas present I received (as you may have gathered from my previous post) was a gift card to L.L. Bean. Grandpa and Grandma generously included enough on the card to buy these three winter-sale [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Something else I got for Christmas… a $50 dollar gift certificate to Sheetmusicplus.com. This is even worse than the gift certificate to L.L. Bean from Grandpa and Grandma! You see, I don’t have a problem finding a few things I’d like from L.L. Bean and choosing between the two or three items based on how [...]
