Tag: gross
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Toiletgeddon 2012, or I Got My Parents a New Bathroom for Christmas. (The exploding toilet saga.)
Originally posted on Joanna Volavka: So here we are. It is December 5 and I finally have a story for you. I’ve already told it partly on twitter, but feel that it should be EXPLAINED. Here it is, as I wrote it, commentary added as needed. ….. Monday. 3:28pm: Twitter I just got attacked by…
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Advertising: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.
Well, doing it badly, in any case. I was going to write about our MUCH belated holiday party from this weekend today, but NO. If you know me well, you know I don’t think much of most ads, especially when I can tell I am the target audience and feel that THEY are pandering to…
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The Story About the Beetles
Well, my Christmas tree is finally in its box, in the garage where it belongs. It went there on Saturday. Yes, I know it’s March. Yes, I know Christmas was 2 1/2 months ago. And I tried, I really and truly tried to put it away. December 30th I actually started pulling down all of…
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Cleanest toaster oven EVER: revisited
So, if you’ve been reading my blog a while, you probably remember the Lizard Sandwich episode. If not, well… Here. Go read. So tonight I reheated some leftovers, went into the den to watch “Once Upon a Time,” and then when the show was over I came back into the kitchen with my plate… to…
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Lizard Sandwich (or, Only in Hawaii)
Last night I got distracted by this and that, as I sometimes do, and I didn’t eat supper until 9:30pm or so. I wanted something easy but also a “comfort food” so I made a toasted peanut butter sandwich. My method is usually to make the sandwich and then toast it, but last night I…
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Me After Dentist
Today was my semi-annual sojourn to the dentists’ office, which is actually across the street and takes me about three minutes to reach. My predictions this morning? I will be told I need to floss more. The amount of finger shaking and encouraging me to floss more will not change from my last visit, even…
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And Then There Was Cold
The annoying thing about our house is that it is two stories but only has one thermostat and only one air conditioning pump. This matters when you live in a place like Hawaii and your housing office wants you to keep the air running (they have, until recently, paid for it) to prevent mold in…
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The Wildlife is Winning!
But not for long… I made a nasty discovery today. Well, two of them. The first was that I went to check my plants, as I do every morning, and one of my container gardens now contains a large number of round, bright yellow mushrooms. They’re the kind that seem to grow from a sort…
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Pilling the Cat
Sometimes I wish I could explain things to my cats. I mean really explain them, like “I know the medicine tastes yucky, but it’s going to make you feel better” explanations. This all started a week and a half ago when I found some small infections on Caspian’s stomach. I took him to the vet…
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Invasion of the Maggots!
Today, after leaving my next door neighbors’ house, where I’d been invited for brunch, I found another of my neighbors that I’m not terribly familiar with standing at the bottom of my driveway. I say standing, but she was actually in more of a crouch. And holding an aerosol can. And spraying little spots along…
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