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My baby kitten is home!

Hubby decided he was going to need another person to pick up Rum Tum, so I took a long coffee break and we went to the vet. While we were waiting the receptionist told us he came thru fine and we were going to need to curtail his activities for a few days. Hubby laughed. We'll try, but that is all we can do hehehehehehe So one of the techs brought him out and I scooped him up and out the door we went. He was semi-alert, enough that he knew something was happening, tho he wasn't too squirmy. His meows on the way home were fairly quiet. He wanted to wander around big time, mostly under hubby's feet, so I snuggled him in very close. Got in the front door, set him on the couch and managed to get the harness off him before he wiggled off the couch, he wanted to move around. He's walking funny, I put the harness away and went looking for where he'd disappeared to. I thought he'd gone into the bedroom, but I'd passed him in the hall somewhere. He looked like he wan

Hehehehe

The Razzy nominations are up, including a new catagory for "Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets". Tom Cruise is a double nominee in the new catagory and is also up for worst actor for "War of the Worlds". I'm SOOOO looking forward to seeing if he'll show up to claim his award(s) if he "wins" LOL

I feel like such an evil meany

Dropped Rum Tum off at the vet's and almost cried on the way home. We got him harnessed okay (tho at one point I had to chase him down and redo the one buckle, he'd managed to work it loose) and then he shivered in my lap and meowed on the way in. He kept freaking when we first got in the car at any little noise, so we had to wait a few minutes before starting the car. Okay, he was fine once he got there and wanted to explore the front office, but the vet tech came out right away and I had to hand him over. WAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate leaving my babies there, all by themselves, even tho I know they will be in good hands and it is all for their good. He will be able to go out and I won't have to worry about mini Rum Tums running around the neighborhood if there are any unedited females and he won't be competition for Daddy Cat, who makes sure that any unedited males are kept in their place. I still feel like an evil meany tho, esp since I won't be t

Survived Monday

Didn't want to wake up this morning and really didn't want to come into work. Weather cleared up some this afternoon, the sun peeked out from behind the clouds for a while. Still breezy out, tho I don't think we got the high wind gusts they were predicting. Hubby took the flagpole down just in case. He's got it set so it swivels, making it easier to get it out of the wind. Kitties are going to be very unhappy tonight, we take up the food at 8pm since Rum Tum goes in tomorrow to get edited. So they don't get breakfast until we get back ofter dropping him off at the vets. I don't think tomorrow is one of the days they are opend late, so hubby will have to go in and pick him up himself. Called hubby a little while ago to remind him to start dinner. No answer, so he was either taking a nap or out and about. Hopefully he can get dinner started, otherwise we'll have to wait until we get home and it is a pork loin. Had it brined and in a ziplock with ranch seasonin

A VERY lazy Sunday

I've pretty much spent the day reading the archives of Schlock Mercenary , a web comic from the sick and twisted mind of Howard Tayler. I've made it to October 2001 so far :D I did make breakfast, steak, eggs and potato pancakes. The potato pancakes were the ones I froze the other night and the eggs were wonderful farm fresh from the chickens of a co-worker. Have to see if I can throw money at her on a regular basis to get more. I have managed to get the last of the christmas lights down and a bunch of cardboard boxes broken down. A big laser printer living in the front hallway went to it's new home, so now I can get a few things there picked up and moved. Hubby's been working in his office and has managed to fling a bunch of stuff. Have to figure out what to do for dinner, I really don't feel like cooking much. Hubby may have to make do with the hamburger helper stroganoff leftovers from last night. I'm thinking spaghetti and cheese sounds pretty good for me.

Accomplished so far....

Last nights dishes (after two glasses of wine I didn't feel like doing them last night, some things can wait until morning ) Annoyed the Rum Tum by putting the harness on him again, this time the pink one. Couldn't find the light blue one. He looks very pretty in pink hehehehehehehe Packed up my Bryers horse collection and dusted the 3 inches of dust off the shelf Gotta remember to dust more often. Arranged what was left on the shelf and added the kitty cat statuettes. Still have a couple more family photos to put up there. Packed away some of my dolls and a few stuffed animals off the entertainment unit. Marie Antionette (my BIG doll) will stay, as will Tweety Bird, they are too big to pack in the boxes I have. Once I get the bedroom boogied I may find room for them down there, that will clear off the top of the EC all together. Still need to figure where to hang the inflatable shuttle. Finished off the pot of coffee, made a pot of tea. Pulled the other loaf of sourdough brea

YAWN!!!

Tried to sleep in, but my bladder had other ideas Hubby was already up and had let the kitties out. I opened the door to see it is snowing agian and we've got a nice dusting of snow across the deck. Rum Tum came running over, he likes to play in the snow, but not while it's snowing hehehehehehehe. The other two kitties are still outside. Made coffee and spiked it with Stephen's hot coco mix. They make a vey yummy hot cocoa, but it's on the pricey side, so when Winco had a bunch of special flavors on sale for $2.98 we snagged one. It was yummy, chocolate cinnamon. We picked up another can last night. Winco didn't have the chicken breasts on sale anymore, they raised the price to a whole $1.68 a pound LOL Still a good price so I grabbed two more packages. I made chicken fajitas for dinner, so I'll brine what's left of the chicken today. I brought home some xerox paperboxes the other night. I finally realized I don't have to have everything I own out on dis

YAY, it's FRIDAY!!!!!

And it's snowing out and the migraine is attempting a comeback. Good thing I have a good supply of acetominiphen, took 2 already this morning and will pop a couple more in a few. I've decided to stop trying to "tough it out" when the headaches start, try and stop them before they get too bad. Feeling nauseous all day on top of the head pain is no fun. Payday today, money comes in, money goes out. One of the outs will be Rum Tum going into the vet on Tuesday to get edited. One of these days we need to get enough money to haul all three in for their shots. You would think with a vet school in the area (over at WSU) they would run some low cost shot clinics, but I've never seen any offered. Hubby thinks the local vets don't want the competition, but there are other towns where there are low cost vet clinics that have lots of vets and they don't seem to have any problems. Have to keep a sharper eye out. We COULD order some of the vaccines via mail, but I haven

I hate migraines

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Mid week

I see NBC has caved into the loony religious right, who has decided they will be the arbiters of what everyone else can watch. Have they not heard of the off button? TVs also come with channel changers so if you don't like what one network is showing, you can change it to one you want. People are claiming Book of Daniel was cancelled solely on ratings. After only 3 weeks? I don't think so. NBC has kept crap on the air a lot longer with piss poor ratings, even kept some good stuff on the air when the ratings were poor in order for it to find their audience. Now, if there had not been looneys screaming bloody murder about it, I might consider it cancelled simply on ratings, but a great many critics have reported quite a few mainstream religious leaders who felt the show was very good and they were happy for a network show to have religion as a central premise. Ah well, we are on the slippery slope to a religious theocracy and the vast majority of Americans are going to have a rud

EEP!!!!

Okay, I did it. I started ANOTHER blog, over on Blogger: Cooking with Jean C It will be a few days before I start making real posts, right now I'm in the process of tweaking it. I decided to go with Blogger since I can't afford to pay for another blog on Bravenet and I don't want adverts splashed across the top AND Blogger gives me a chance to learn updated HTML and CSS. So we'll see how it goes

Poor hubby

He wasn't feeling good this evening, so went to bed at 8:30, so I had dinner alone and the rest went into the fridge for tomorrow night. I took the pork loin and finished defrosting it in the reactor, sliced it into 6 slices and put it in a baking dish. Drizzled olive oil over it and sprinkled the Johnny's Garlic Ceasar sprinkle on it. The potatos I layered into a another baking dish with parmasean from the green can, total of 3 layers. I made a roux wih 3 TBS butter and 3 TBS flour, added a cup and a bit of half and half and then some more parmasean and poured that into the potatos and it all went into the oven. Came out very, very yummy. The sauce on the potatos was rich and creamy and a lovely cheese flavor. I think I may have finally figured out a cheese sauce that won't break LOL I saved a bit out for my lunch, the rest went into the fridge. So I am sitting here, just pulled the loaf of sourdough bread I put in the oven a while ago out. It's cooling on a rack. Smel

Okay, I'm confused

Not an uncommon state I know, but still. I thought that if you buy tickets for an event and then turn around and sell those tickets for more then their listed price that it is called scalping. I thought scalping is illegal and the person or person involved are arrested. So why is Ebay aiding and abetting in scalping Superbowl tickets and neither they or the scalpers using their service being arrested?

MMMMMMMM

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I am SOOOOO forward looking to lunch: Was making pizza dough and hubby said pizza for dinner sounded good, so I changed gears and did pizza instead (I WILL get to those potatos slices eventually LOL). I had just gotten some brined chicken breasts in the freezer, unsealed to freeze up a bit before sealing, so I pulled 1 package out. I sliced the breasts, tossed them in the cast iron skillet with a bit of olive oil and kosher salt and cooked them. Halfway thru I tossed in some italian seasoning. In the meantime I took a packet of alfredo sauce, 2 TB butter and 2/3 cup of milk and made the sauce. Once the dough was finished with it's 2nd rising (first was in the bread machine, then I took it out and divided it) I made two pizzas. Layered on the sauce, chicken and then mozzarella and into a 350F oven for a bit over 20 minute. Pulled them out, let rest a couple minutes and then slice and MMMMMMMMMMMMMM I was going to make more pizza dough for the freezer, instead I mixed the flours, sug

Not a lazy Sunday

I got the latest batch of chicken breasts brining, they'll be ready to pull out in about an hour or less. If I take them out about 4:30 they will have been brining for about 5 hours. Managed to get the freezer and deep freeze straightened up. I had to resort to using a pair of wool winter gloves, handling the vac bags of chicken stock I lost feeling in my fingers. Those things are COLD! I had to look a couple times to make sure I hadn't left skin on the outside of a couple bags. I flung a bunch of frozen bread bits. I'd been freezing them in anticipation of using them for homemade stove top stuffing, but I hadn't gotten around to trying it and they'd been in there the ghodz know how long, so out they went. I'll make a definate attempt next time to give it a try and use them before I forget when they went in. Probably start ziplocking them with the date they went into the freezer on the bag. Didn't use the sliced potatos this morning, didn't feel like coo

My new kettle

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Phhttttttttthhhhhh!

LOL Weather today has been fun. Cold and at one point on our way back from town, almost a white out hehehehehehe. We'd popped into Ross to use up the last of the gift cards. Came home with a psuedo-mandoline (a slicer grater thingy), a new tea kettle (way cool I'll have to get a pic of it to post. It has a very retro 50ish future feel to it) and pastry cutter/scraper thingy. We then hit the dollar store to pick up a couple more things, walked out $14 later. It is getting VERY dangerous to walk in there, but we have 2 more beer mugs, 4 ramikins with lids, a couple grabby placemats that work great holding my cutting boards in place (and in purple too :D ) and some other odds and sods. That's when the almost white out icky weather rolled in. It rolled out again about 1/2 hour later and is just cloudy and cold. Used the new mando thingy to slice potatos for scalloped potatos and ham for dinner. Worked wonderfully well, tho it only slices one thickness, thin. But this will give

Made it thru the week!

Long week and I even had Monday off LOL. I have GOT to learn to stop stressing over the annual staff evaluations. Mine went wonderfully well, lots of meets and exceeds requirements and we even tweaked my job description when we realized that one part of it which accounted for a LOT of my time when he'd gotten the upgrade was no longer that much. Snowed this morning, the wind was just right and the snow wet enough we lost Dish signal twice watching my morning shows. 1st time in a year that happened. If we are going to have more snow over the weekend we'll spray the dishes with silicone spray, helps the snow slide off. If one doesn't have silicone spray, the stuff you use for baking works well too :D Hubby had a client who paid him today, so we have a little more money for grocery shopping. He had a paying client yesterday also, so we'd hit the grocery store and got more chicken. We'll get more tonight, along with a couple other things. I'm dying for spaghetti, so

What age do you act?

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You Are 31 Years Old Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax. What Age Do You Act? Not bad since I'm 44 hehehehehe

RIP Wilson Pickett

Another great one headed to that great jam session in the sky, Wilson Pickett , best known for "Mustang Sally", "In the Midnight Hour" and other great tunes of my childhood died of a heart attack at age 64 On an up note, NASA's New Horizon probe is winging it towards Pluto as we speak. After 2 delays, they got her lifted on her way today.

Hump Day

Eventually I'll get back to blogging a bit more regular. Still thinking about doing a cooking blog. Ran into a great deal on boneless, skinless chicken breasts at Winco last night, I'm hoping they keep the deal on for a little while yet, I want to pick up more. They have them on for $1.48 a pound, limit 4 packages per trip. They are fresh, so I could stock up and brine them before freezing. In fact, I'll be doing just that with what I have left of the two packages we bought last night. We only used 3 halves last night for dinner. I butterflied them to make them thinner, sprinkled a bit of sesame oil onto them and then lightly sprinkled fajita seasoning on them and baked. Since they were cut thin, they didn't take that long to cook and then I put them between bread, spinkled with mozzarella and we had fajita chicken sandwiches for dinner last night. I made a plain salt brine, I was going to brine them last night, but by the time I go back over from the neighbor's, it

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Cold, windy and snowy outside right now. FINALLY got Rum Tum to come in a little while ago, thought I was going to have to go out and get him. Hubby vetoed sink replacement this weekend. He didn't want to find that we needed a part and the store we needed would be closed today. Oh well, had lots of other things to do. We hauled the dying vaccuum cleaner to the dump (the bearings were gone) along with hubby's computer monitor that died. Scooped up the tree and the branches and hauled those into the recycling center along with some other stuff that needed recycling. Decided that while I can get good stuff at the dollar store, oven cleaner is not one of them. I almost gassed myself trying to clean the oven, the nozzle kept clogging up and it didn't clean as well as I'd liked. So in this case, you get what you pay for. Next time I'll pay the $$ and get a good name brand oven cleaner. Picked up a whole pork loin at Costco, along with a big bag of cheese (mozarella), a pa

FRIDAY!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

It's been icky and rainy all day today, very So I brought in the inflatable palm tree and fake parrot and have them on my desk overhaning my computerdesk Got smiles from folk. Going down to Lewiston tomorrow, there is a geocaching get together at Granny's buffet, so we'll hit that and visit fellow geocachers and then do some shopping. Hopefully we can hit the cash and carry and then over to Costco. Gotta get kitty food, I've just enough for half a bowl tonight. Good thing I've got some canned and pouch kitty food, or else we would be in serious trouble hehehehehehehe I'm taking a 3 day weekend, we have student coverage for Monday. I'm going to haul in the freecycled kitchen sink, probably Sunday and see if it looks like it will work, then I'll see how much trouble I can get into taking out the avacado green sink and installing the new one. I also picked up oven cleaner, so will see if I can poison myself sometime this weekend cleaning the oven. FLYing

Blech

Went to the "How Will Wal-Mart Affect Moscow's Economy?" talk sponsored by the Moscow Civic Assosiaction last night. I have informed everyone that in the future if I express and interest in going to future talks with the words "economics or economy" in them to kindly shoot me I had a raging headache, esp after the one gentleman started doing economics math (I think my eyes glazed over and I started drooling at one point) and I had to serious resist the urge to beat the older lady I was sitting next to to a pulp (such comments to her husband "SHE'S a liberal" when one lady got up to comment and ask a question and "what's she doing up there, SHE'S a banker!" in regards to one of the panel members. But I was raised to defer to my elders, even when they are idiots. My parents goofed in that regard). Wet and rainy again today, it started coming down late last night, with wind. Needless to say, it wasn't a restful night and this mo

Lazy Sunday again

Recieved a sample issue of Cook's Illustrated the other day and got an idea. There was an article on braising and an article on oven fries. For dinner last night I decided to cut part of the cheap chuck roast I'd bought earlier, pulled out my dutch oven and heated it up on my stove top, added a bit of olive oil, sprinkled sale and pepper on the bits of beef and into the dutch oven they went. I browned them nicely on both sides, then turned the heat down, added some water and a couple splashes of basalmic vinegar and put the lid on. I then turned the magazine to the oven fries. I peeled and cut up 4 small to medium russets into steak fries and then put them in a bowl with hot tap water to soak according to the article. I soaked for 10 minutes, drained and patted the fries dry. I took a cookie sheet, spread 4 tablespoons veggie oil on the pan, sprinkled salt and pepper and tossed the fries with another tablespoon oil and layered them on. Covered the sheet with foil and popped it

'Tis Firday....Friday even

My brain is having problems keeping letters in the right order for spelling, either hubby's dyslexia is seriously contagious, or the meds aren't working real well and the Graves' has splatted my brain big time. SIGH! At least it is Friday so a couple days to putter and hopefully finish getting the house, if not spotless, at least walk thruable hehehehehehe The tree will go to the recyclers sometime this weekend and I need to get all the glassware and the bottles of booze back into their respective cupboards. The martini pitcher by the way got cracked on the trip over to the party, so we will need to replace it WAAHHH!!!!!!! Oh well, at least TriState is now carrying them, so we can get a replacement when we can. We are also going to look into getting plastic barware, so we don't have to haul the glass stuff, which of course has to be packed carefully and breaks anyways. It would also make containers of stuff a lot lighter. Been trying my hand at sourdough. Managed to co

Joke

What kind of teeth can you buy with one dollar? Buck teeth Okay, really bad joke, but today is a downer day and I needed it. Will write more later.