The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home. Day 29: Listed a couple of books and CDs for sale at Amazon. I’m always tempted to keep every book that comes into my hands, but I don’t have room, and I don’t miss [...]
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Do One Thing: Sorting the library, garage and fridge
Posted in Do One Thing, Home, tagged books, cantaloupe, CDs, challenge, decluttering, Do One Thing, garage, greens, library, New Year's resolution, postaday2011, refrigerators, resolutions, side-by-side refrigerators, strawberries on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As Pictured Below: Taste of home
Posted in As Pictured Below, Eats, Huntsville, tagged alabama, fried foods, fried shrimp, gumbo, Huntsville, king cake, Po Boy Factory, poboys, postaday2011, shrimp on January 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
You don’t realize how much you miss a good fried shrimp poboy until you only get to eat one or two a year. And, apparently, you don’t realize that fried foods provoke headaches until you eat fried foods only once or twice a year. Anyway, I had a superb shrimp poboy and cup of gumbo [...]
As Pictured Below: Curiosity irritated the cat
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged cats, Gladys Kravitz, iPhone, neighbors, photography, postaday2011 on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The construction guys next door were making plenty of noise this week, and Yang’s inquiring mind wanted to know what was going on. Note that in his quest to see down into the yard, he has pressed his head against the glass so hard that his ears are flattened. I live with the reincarnation of [...]
Do One Thing: The cleansing burn of anger
Posted in Do One Thing, Home, tagged 3/4-length sleeves, anger, baking, challenge, cleaning, coffee, decluttering, Do One Thing, King Arthur Flour, kitchen, kitchen gadgets, New Year, New Year's resolution, pie, postaday2011, resolutions on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home. Day 28: Clean angry. Choose a room. Get rid of anything that you don’t wear, don’t use or don’t love. Get rid of anything that doesn’t make you less angry. Get rid of anything [...]
Entirely educational
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, postaday2011, Shakespeare on January 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Baking class. Graduate seminar. Shakespeare production. All in one day. There simply MUST be a name for my disorder.
Aspirational oatmeal: definitely a thing
Posted in Eats, tagged brown sugar, dried cranberries, New York, New York City, oatmeal, postaday2011, Serious Eats, steel-cut oats on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A slide show over at Serious Eats: New York featuring the best oatmeal in New York City tells me that my steel-cut oats with brown sugar and dried cranberries is the stuff of amateurs. Oatmeal with vanilla and lavender syrup, anyone?
A bittersweet milestone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged age, aging, death, father, milestones, mother, postaday2011 on January 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Having heard about the death of a friend’s father and the death of one of my mother’s friends within the past seven days, it occurred to me that perhaps I’ve reached that age when deaths become more common. Then I realized that my father died nearly 10 year ago, so I guess I’ve been reaching [...]
Do One Thing: Crafty craft storage
Posted in Do One Thing, Home, tagged challenge, crafting, crafts, Do One Thing, embroidery, furniture, guest room, home, home office, Mod Podge, neatnik, New Year, New Year's resolution, nightstand, organization, organize, organizing craft supplies, postaday2011, resolutions, storage, storing craft supplies on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home. Day 24: I realize that some people have an entire room dedicated to their crafting supplies. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I yearn to be craftier. But I also associate crafts with [...]
Do One Thing: Closet, bathroom progress
Posted in Do One Thing, Home, Uncategorized, tagged bathroom, bathroom accessories, bifold closet doors, challenge, cleaning closets, decluttering, Do One Thing, faucet, New Year's resolution, photo scanning, photograph, postaday2011, redecorate, remodeling, resolutions, Rubbermaid boxes, Scancafe, shredding, sorting photographs, thrift store, toilet paper holder, towel ring on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home. Day 18: Put a blazer into the thrift store box. It’s a well-made wool blazer, but its cut is simply out of style and I don’t know when it’ll come back in style. I’m [...]
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