Snow
We’re about to get a bit more of that white stuff they call snow. We got 2 feet of snow over the weekend, and now we could get up to 2 more feet of snow. I’m happy to be able to work from home, but sheesh, where am I going to put this snow? We’ve run out of room.
This isn’t a great pic; it’s from my Blackberry. But this is what our deck looked like at 8:30am on Saturday morning – please note that it snowed until about 1pm!
It looks like Mr. CurlyFry has some shoveling to do in his future. I helped shovel on Saturday morning, and he was being bossy! According to him “there’s a science to shoveling” – and apparently I do it all wrong! Fine with me – he can do it all himself.
And then he’ll spend the rest of the day gloating about how wonderful it looks. Whatever makes him happy…
we moved!
…although you may not have even noticed!
this morning we ended up moving One Curly Fry from blogger to wordpress. so far i’m loving it. it was a fairly smooth transition, and i have a feeling we’ll love it here.
i’m not sure if the rss feeds transfer over or not. same with the whole ‘following’ thing. but if not, there are a few links to your right so that you can subscribe/follow again!
You know you’re getting old when…
…you are totally thrilled to get new kitchen appliances.
Seriously. I was like a little kid on Christmas day last week when my new stove, microwave and dishwasher were delivered and installed. We ordered a new fridge, but it can’t be delivered until February 16th. So until then it’s killing me that all of my appliances don’t match.
So below you can see the old stove & microwave, and my sparkling new ones. And you can see the old, ugly dishwasher along with my new, sparkling, pretty dishwasher!
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Of course now I’m totally dying for a new floor and counter top! The gray has GOTTA go. And we need to paint the walls to get a little color in there.
Now give me your opinions!
- What color would you paint the wall?
- What color counter top would you pick?
- What flooring would you put in?
Blockbuster Online = FAIL
I feel it is my duty to let you all know that Blockbuster Online is awful. We signed up for a 4 week trial. They’ve wasted 2 weeks out of my 4 week trial sending the wrong discs, and then re-sending them over and over again after I told them not to. This happened on a few separate occasions.
Their Customer Service is atrocious. Once an issue has been reported, that movie is “generally” set aside so that it can be inspected by their “Quality Assurance” team. I was told that “Regrettably, the DVD You notified us about previously was shipped before going through this process.” – Oh really? What a surprise. And I guess all of the other movies that weren’t the correct discs shipped before going through that process too, right?
And not to mention the fact that the discs take at least two days to get to me, and then two days to get back to them. And Blockbuster probably wonders why they are losing out to Netflix and Redbox. And why they have to close so many stores. Well – this is probably part of the reason!
And they try to “make it all better” (aka pacify me) by offering me two e-coupons to use in my local Blockbuster store. Well if I wanted to get movies out of my local Blockbuster store I wouldn’t have signed up for an ONLINE subscription. Duh. Not to mention the fact that my local Blockbuster store doesn’t have the discs that we had in our queue.
So if you’re looking for an online movie subscription, choose Netflix. They’re wonderful and we’ve never had any of the problems we’ve had with Blockbuster.
So Blockbuster Online gets a big FAIL and they won’t ever get our business again.
Getting Organized: Pantry
In an effort to get my kitchen more organized, I cleaned out the pantry. Oh what a task that was! As you can see, it was a disaster, and it needed cleaned out in the worst way. I had no idea what was in there, and I knew there were some items in there past their expiration date!
Here are the before pictures:
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It was quite the mess, wasn’t it? Looking for something in there was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Seriously! So I put on some music and went to work.
Here’s what it looked like when I was done:
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And here are a few close-up shots…
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I threw out 3 trash bags full of expired food 
Now let’s see how long it stays that clean & organized! Shall we place any bets?!
Skinny latte
One of the awesome perks for working at my company is that they pay for our coffee/tea drinks from Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. There is a gift card for each place, and they are both pretty much loaded up with unlimited funds. When you want a latte, coffee, frapp, iced green tea, etc you just grab the card and go on your merry way.
There’s usually a crew that goes to Starbucks in the morning, and one that goes in the afternoon. We need to be caffeinated twice a day to handle all of this work…lol!
So yesterday I joined the afternoon crew (I run on Dunkin in the morning for my coffee!). I ordered a tall nonfat cinnamon dolce latte. I prefer the latte made with 2% milk, but let’s face it – I don’t need those extra calories. The girl asked if I wanted the sugar free syrup, and I said NO! I want the regular syrup.
So I get back to my office with my drink and I take a sip. EWWWWWWW. They used that sugar free crap. Ugh. It totally ruined the entire drink. I’d gladly take the stairs up 22 flights of stairs to my office if that meant never having to drink that sugar free garbage again. Apparently it’s a “skinny latte” – ick.
Please tell me one thing – Who drinks this crap and thinks it tastes good?!
I swear to you that motor oil would’ve tasted better to me. It left this super nasty after taste in my mouth. I couldn’t even drink it. I hope the trash enjoyed it, because I sure as hell didn’t.
Two years ago
today, I lost my favorite kitty in the whole wide world.
And I’m still heart broken.
Carlos and I are convinced that he’s in Hollywood making it big on TV commercials, in movies, magazines, etc.
We see him every day.
He was the sweetest cat ever.
Snow!
And it wasn’t even close to being done snowing when I took those pictures!
Looks like we’ll still have a White Christmas!
Happy Holidays!
Silly kitty cat
First, let me say that I totally forgot to take pics of my very first turkey! It slipped my mind. Oops. I will say that it turned out great!!! Brining was the way to go, and I’ll definitely do the Williams-Sonoma Apple & Spice brine again. Worth. Every. Penny! Carlos even raved about how juicy it was 5 days after Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving was a very busy day. I spent ALL day long cooking. Yeah, remind me to never do that again. Next year I’ll definitely bake the pies the night before, and prep what I can the night before. I was exhausted by the time dinner was over. I was almost too tired to have dessert. And for those of you that know me, you probably wouldn’t believe that! But I had a tiny sliver of each pie (sweet potato pie and apple pie) shortly before I passed out for the night in my bed.
Can y’all believe it’s DECEMBER already? Seriously?! Where has the time gone?
I want to leave you with a few pics of my kitty cat Myssy. He’s so silly. He lives a rough life, I tell ya!
Check out his eyes. Carlos is convinced he’s possessed! LOL
