Hi, my name is marie, and I have a problem with having too much crap. Today I’m specifically pointing out my craft crap. I have several different hobbies, none of which I’m about to give up, and the stuff around them has simply overwhelmed my craft room…
I’ve often heard of weight loss and being heavy as being a problem with willpower. “I don’t have enough willpower to stay away from the desserts table”. Pff. I’ve got PLENTY of willpower. I’m stubborn as this here mule. Ain’t he cute? Yep, I’ve got willpower to spare. Just ask my husband, who when asked…
Denial is a powerful thing. It’s amazing what people can ignore, given the opportunity and the will. But eventually most (certainly not all) people hit a point where they realize it’s gone too far. Some let it go further than others. I’ve had all the signs of denial for quite a few years. I didn’t…
As a computer geek IT person, I know the value of a reboot. When in doubt, reboot. If it’s not working, reboot. Someone tells me something’s not working, the first thing I ask is when’s the last time they rebooted. Why reboot? because it resets your memory, and gets rid of all the little flotsam…
I’ve tried lots of different ways of organizing my recipes. purchased cookbook notebooks and index cards (which had to be rewritten by hand from the original sources), a 3-ring binder (printing or ripping or writing recipes onto paper), various online recipe savers/collectors (where you have to enter in all the ingredients from a database), a…
My office chair broke a few months ago. The end of one of the plastic spokes around where it met with the plastic wheel cracked. I tried to glue it, but it just broke again in a different spot. I continued to use it while I searched around for a replacement. As I continued to…
When you grow lots of tomatoes in the garden, you need to figure out what to do with them. While my garden harvest this year wasn’t as large as years past, I still feel a thrill in using stuff from my own garden to make dinner. I used about 1 lb of roma tomatoes from…
Today I’m spending time at my desktop computer, reinstalling Windows 7 to see if I can get some speed back into it. This generally takes a long time, and mostly involves a lot of thumb-twiddling between steps. So, I decided to tackle a project in the office. Today’s project is “The Spaghetti Box”. The Spaghetti…
I’ve just returned from Vacation. Nearly every year for the past 6 years I’ve gone to Pennsic, an annual event for the Society for Creative Anachronism. It’s held Northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and draws over 10,000 people from around the globe to share in an event for lovers of medieval history. For me, it’s a…