Scarred

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Um... it's really freaking cold outside. Today, it was 4 degrees. It has been a looong time since I experienced single digit temps. And it snowed. Not pretty, softly falling, just-shook-up-a-snowglobe snow, but cold, icy, sideways snow. It's good that it's finally snowing, and that it's staying cold enough that the snow doesn't melt, but I've been constantly cold all week. I've been going into the sauna at the gym after my workouts just so I can s [...]

Curses!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Well, I'd just finished a post and was uploading photos, and then I accidentally closed the window before saving. So, it's gone! It's getting late, and I need to get to bed, but tomorrow after work, I'll craft a super-post. I promise!

Halloween Party Recap and Other Misadventures

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Halloween party on Saturday was a smashing success! Everyone had such creative costumes- one of Kyle's friends and her boyfriend came as Medusa and Zeus! Check out her makeup job- she said it took her two hours!

Curses! Foiled Again!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Part 2 of the Stay-cation is coming soon... I had it all written out, and then accidentally closed the window before saving it and lost everything I had typed. Gaaah! Talk about frustrating!

I have to head to work, but I'l [...]

Hunker Down

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Everyone gets jealous of us Floridians. I think people imagine that we spend our whole days surfing, lounging on the beach, drinking frou-frou drinks out of a pineapple and listening to Jimmy Buffet. The reality is that we have jobs and school and bills just like everyone else, and that it's super-crazy-miserable humid/hot about 70% of the year. Not to say that beaches, Disney World and sunny, balmy Decembers aren't nice, but I think people forget that it's not a tropical [...]

Bad Robot!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

As you probably noticed, my blog has been down for the past week. Turns out Blogger's spam detecting robots thought my blog was spam and locked my blog until a human could review it. It's good they have precautions in place, but frustrating that I was unable to access my blog.
Thanks for still checkin' in.

Oh, and on a side note- my oven's also been fixed. Double hooray!

Oven Exorcism

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I really thought today would be a nice, mellow Friday. I didn't have to work, so I woke up and had a light breakfast (Greek yogurt with berries and a cup of Earl Grey), poked around on-line a bit, then went to the library, where I paid my late fines and picked up a few books, including Heat by Bill Buford, which I have been wanting to read for sometime now. I considered several good-looking cookbooks, but decided to wait until I had a working oven. I was gone for maybe an [...]

Oven Drama

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Monday, I boiled some pasta and made a lovely goat cheese and Parmesan cheese sauce. I put it in a casserole dish and artfully arranged tomato slices, chopped kalmata olives and a panko/olive oil crust on top. I put it in the oven for half an hour and... Nothing happened. My oven is broken.

The range still works, but the actual oven itself barely heats up. This is frustrating, as, ironically, all my meal plans this week needed to be baked. Of cour [...]

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