don't bite the sun...

Which Bag Did I Put My Life In?

Eugenia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:55 +0000

I’m finally unpacking from the bedbug fiasco. The last few months have been misery, made me twitchy, imagining that I’ll never be able to unpack and be comfortable again. Every time I notice a bug bite on my body, I freak out a little bit, worry that they might not be gone, and that I’ll [...]

hell of a week

Eugenia — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0000

This has been one of those weeks where I get precious little of anything done. I’m not entirely sure what I did, other than play a lot of Alpha Centauri. Oh, laundry…lots of laundry and other drudgery that made me feel unfit to do anything more than zone out and take over an alien world [...]

Fat Tax: Yay or Nay?

Eugenia — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:10:11 +0000

Laura Northrup wrote a Consumerist article today soliciting opinions for a fat tax. Do we want to add that on to our list of other “sin taxes” like the “tobacco tax”?

One of her best points is that, if we do add such a tax, it should be called a “junk food tax”. As she says: No [...]

The Killer Chili Saga Continues…

Eugenia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:23:16 +0000

Tonight was another crazy cooking night. I needed to dilute the Killer Chili, make a double batch of butternut squash soup, and make bacon chocolate-chip cookies for the Breast Cancer Awareness bake-sale at work.

I set out to work on all three simultaneously, and was surprisingly successful. Though, in usual form, I managed to spill, slop, [...]

The Great Cook-Off

Eugenia — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:46:33 +0000

We had our cook-off yesterday, and it probably went better than it should have, though we didn’t get through all the recipes I pulled. Given the number of issues we had working against us, I’ll have to call the cook-off a success.

Our first issue was all about me. I originally planned to get up around [...]

beans, beans everywhere

Eugenia — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:43:49 +0000

I am planning a huge cooking-day this weekend. Since I (and my roommates) are on tight budgets right now, I decided to try my hand at cooking a bunch of things and freezing them for later eating. My auntie Marylou played a big role in this; she visited us last month, at the start of [...]

book-love, there you are!

Eugenia — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:35:54 +0000

Since all my illnesses, my ability to read has gone straight downhill. I haven’t counted, but I don’t think I’ve read more than 10 books this year. As I improve in many other areas, this has been a source of frustration to me. Part of what I’m trying to do right now is educate myself [...]

monday morning blues

Eugenia — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:23:32 +0000

Because the weekend is always too short!

But it was lovely. I had a great time with M & B & Tammy. We had our usual hilarity and hi-jinks. It is really wonderful that, even after not seeing each other for years ( though I am the one that disappears the most-they get to see each [...]

catching up

Eugenia — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:16:41 +0000

I spent tonight looking through my photographs, to find some new ones to add to the banner of my new theme.

I can’t express how exciting having a theme that I like is to me! I’ve thought about my blog repeatedly over the past few days. I feel so much more energized, now that I don’t [...]

and then there was the mono…

Eugenia — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:17:58 +0000

no, not *now*. thank heavens!

I went to my GP today, to fill him in on all the various medical happenings of the past few months. He’d recommended the neurologist that I went to. After I filled him in & he updated my chart, he pulled out the labs that I’d had taken on 4/13, to [...]