What happens where you unpack
It’s been a year since I opened some of the boxes that are consuming space in my bedroom and home office. Here are a few discoveries I’ve made seen unpacking:
- I finally found the missing Fiona Apple CD I had been searching for. Unfortunately, I already bought the replacement. Now, I have only one. Plus, I found the Gnarls Barkley and Scarlett Johasson discs.
- I discovered my old photo albums. I haven’t brought them out apparently since my trip to New England. I am now squaring away the photos I liked most since then and I’m sending them to CVS tonight.
- My original Magnetic Poetry kit. I can know have better verses for my magnetic calendar.
- All my little jewelry holders and boxes. Now I have no excuse for losing anything.
With these new discoveries, I have carved out a spot in my bedroom for a reading nook. I’ve unpacked all my books and loaded them onto bookcases and storage cases. I purchased a cheap chair and table and unpacked a lamp I hadn’t used recently, and now I have a quiet place away from a computer and television to exercise my mind.
permalink | Comment [2] | domestic | 08/21/2008
Culinary skills
As I continue to mull over what to do with this domain and the next, I have made to headway in the kitchen. In addition to making cookies and pizza for days, I have just purchased my first blender. Mind you I have grown up with one, so this is not my first time using one. I just never got around to buying because when I was small, all I used it for was to make eggnog each Christmas. Plus, I don’t drink alcohol more than three times a year, so mixed drinks aren’t my thing.
Yet in the last few months, I’ve had a kick for smoothies of all flavors, and I have seen about 5 percent of my monthly pay going to poorly blended restaurant-style creations. I calculated the cost of owning my own blender and purchasing the ingredients from Wal-Mart. I figured out that I could make three smoothies for the price of one fast-food version.
I traveled to Target and bought this blender. There was a sale involved with this model, and I purchased frozen fruit, bananas and bananas from Wal-Mart. Some 12 smoothies later, and I have made enough to equal the price of the blender in comparison to having bought the smoothies individually. I am so glad I came up with this.
permalink | Comment | domestic | 08/07/2008
Welcome to the neighborhood
In the 10 months I’ve been here, the last week best summarized how my stay in this neighborhood has been:
- Someone decided that my windshield is a trashcan. Funny how no one else has the same problem.
- The three feet of front lawn I have gets mysteriously mowed. The 10 yards of back lawn gets an angry, drunken visit from the landlord.
- This place sucks.
permalink | Comment | domestic | 06/25/2008
May's the word
The following are poems from the Magnetic Poetry calendar for the month of May, with all the words beginning with the same letter:
- beautiful | breeze | bird | blossom | between | behind | believe
- spring | spark | skin | summer | squirrel | sweet | snow
- gentle | good | garden | giggle | ground | grow | green
- heart | have | how | hot | hard | here | has
- make | mind | my | man | machine | morning | month
- leave | life | light | little | luck | look | like
This last one is purely of grabbing seven random tiles and placing them vertically onto the board:
use | a | from | year | work | present | do
permalink | Comment | domestic | 05/12/2008
April's circle poems
I forgot to post my March poems from my Magnetic Poetry calendar, but those were stinkers. So here are my April circle poems:
- want | essential | life | heart | mind | will | must | have
- sky | blue | green | nature | garden | spring | rain | weather
- present | birthday | happy | giggle | lively | dark | past | future
- fruit | sweet | taste | feel | skin | man | machine | plastic
- work | fired | sparks | light | night | dream | imagine | play | hard
- sun | hot | summer | winter | snow | fall | behind | moon
- good | bad | tricked | out | about | time | morning
I haven’t done a circle poem since high school.
