Oh, the perils of “working” at home. I saw this recipe on 101 Cookbooks this morning; since then, I have been sitting at my desk and accomplishing nothing. Time for a lunch break! Oddly, enough, I happened to have Shichimi Togarashi but no rice. Or mushrooms. I can’t remember why I bought this little orange [...]
Archive for January, 2011
lunch at my desk
Posted in food on January 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Daybed delivery, drama, damage, and deference
Posted in homeownership on January 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Well, empty no more. My tiny room is filling up again, in the usual fashion— that is to say that things are not going so smoothly. I was a little annoyed with the West Elm furniture delivery guys when they first arrived; anyone who tracks that much salt and sand on my wood floors is [...]
(almost) vegan
Posted in food on January 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Lately, I’ve been sliding towards veganism. For a life-long vegetarian, this is not really that much of an adjustment; I’ve never really liked milk and have always been disturbed by eggs in most preparations. I received The Veganomicon as a gift last Christmas but only just discovered how wonderful the banana bread recipe is; it’s [...]
glacial
Posted in things on January 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The perfect parking space: nobody to dent my doors (watch out for avalanches, though). A confession: some of you already know this, but when it comes to parking spaces I am completely deranged. I generally park as far away from other cars as possible, squeezed way over to the end of a row. I don’t [...]
10,001
Posted in things on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I noticed that my blog has somehow reached over 10,000 hits. I found myself wondering who these individuals were; after all, even I am often perplexed by the way that the topics here range all over the place— from Victorian literature, vegetable lambs, and couches to J. Crew, knickknackery and fleeting nostalgia for the [...]
outtakes
Posted in homeownership, things on January 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I can’t find the charger for my camera. The camera on my new smartphone* is apparently only slightly worse than my Nikon, but I am enough of a Luddite** to cling to it anyway. I was going to take pictures of the growth of these paperwhite bulbs, but they’re moving too quickly. I planted them [...]
cicada song
Posted in things on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time in a long time, I felt homesick today; homesick, oddly enough, for the winding drive down the pretty unremarkable suburban road that leads to the house I grew up in (well, one of them). I don’t know what made me think of driving down that road on a muggy, still summer [...]
empty
Posted in homeownership on January 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The room I’m writing in is rather empty right now. Furniture arrangements are always in flux in my house, but this one’s pretty elaborate. The room that you see here is the small, 7′ by 10′ second bedroom in my house; it’s always been my study. It will still be my writing space, but with [...]
