the holy temple of izzard

Looking forward to getting some samples and coupons from. Knorr® Homestyle Stock. It'll be fun to they out a few of their recipes, and come up with a few of my own.

Many thanks to Woolite® COMPLETE for sending me a free bottle and coupons. My sheets and crochet afghans are softer than they've ever been! Gotta love that.

Looking forward to trying Woolite® COMPLETE in the near future.

Many thanks to Redbox for my free rental. It's always so convenient and easy!

Looking forward to getting a free rental from Redbox

Debating what to do with this blog. Clearly it's been a long time since I updated it. Mostly since I have a self hosted one at http://www.wiccania.com/blog

So what to do with this one? That's the question. I'd kinda like to use it for something interesting, rather than let it just languish here... It was, after all, my first blog.



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Location:The couch

So, Gage and I have moved to New Jersey. At least for a little while. I’m gonna get into school and get myself a marketable skill so that when we go back to Colorado there will be some employment options for me. That would be a good thing. I’m also gonna work on acquiring a vehicle. Nothing perfect, but definitely something that would be able to handle the drive out there. Preferably without blowouts or an emergency transmission rebuild. Although that particular trip WAS an adventure, it’s not an adventure I’d be interested in re-living without the previous company. It just wouldn’t be the same. Especially if I have that kind of adventure with a small child along for the ride.

Being back in Jersey is rather surreal. So much is different, and yet the same. Apparently the grocery store has been 3 or 4 different stores since I was last here. Now it’s a shoprite. I dunno what all it was before that besides an IGA. The Peking Wok is still there, so my favorite place for scallion pancakes is still about. Excellent. There used to be a chinese place near here in another strip mall that I go delivery from all the time. They had no minimum order. I actually ordered 1 egg roll once, just to see if they’d deliver it. They did. And it was SO good. One of the best egg rolls I’ve ever had. I haven’t called anyone local yet, but we’ve only been here since Saturday evening. The flight was… interesting. I’ll post about that later though. Not in the mood to get into the details at the moment.

Thanksgiving was ok. Lots of food for one person to eat. Gage didn't touch a bite of Thanksgiving food. No, that's not right, he did TOUCH the cranberry sauce. He just didn't eat it. It was more of a "what exactly is this mom?" touch. Not a "I think I'll give this a try" touch. At the moment he's laying on the floor in a pile of pillows and rearranging the CDs. Nice. I didn't alphabetize them or anything. Didn't want them to be in any particular order...

So I've just watched the Avs lose to Calgary. It wasn't thrilling, to say the least. It's a shame I missed much of the pre-game show. Apparently there was a bit of an on-ice scuffle before the game even started. They showed a little of it during the 1st intermission, but not enough to see what might have caused it. I'm rather curious.

Gage has piled up the pillows from his bed, my bed and one of the couch cushions on the floor (the aforementioned pile of pillows). He's relaxing in the pile at the moment. It looks comfy, maybe I'll join him in a few minutes, LOL.

When Joe and my mom first got together, the basement of the townhouse we lived in contained 2 or 3 rolling tool cabinets. Seriously, this is a man who loves his tools. Every tool had his name engraved on it. Not etched on crudely with some random tool, actually engraved. He either spent the money when he bought them to have them engraved, or he knew someone who could do engraving at home and had them do it. Either way -- he loves his tools. My younger sister and I got him a new toolkit, the ones they sell at Sears at the holidays, for the holidays 3 or 4 years in a row and he loved them. He didn't pretend to love them, he genuinely loved these toolkits. I'd love to be able to get him a brand new, custom took cabinet for their new place sometime. I think that would be the perfect gift for him.

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It’s really not much. Nothing to write home about, as they say. But it’s still snowing lightly. Who knows if it’ll get heavier or if it’ll just stay really light. I noticed it was snowing last night when I went out for a cigarette before bed. It wasn’t sticking anywhere except on top of cars and things like that. The ground was too warm for it to stay. The cement is still too warm for it to stick to, but it’s sticking everywhere else. Gage was enjoying stomping through the yard a little while ago. It took clever coaxing and Star Wars to get him back inside. Tiger wasn’t particularly fond of the coldness on his paws, but he was having fun running around and kicking up the little bit that’s on the ground. I’d say we’ve got about 2 inches give or take half an inch.

I need to go to the grocery store. I’m not looking forward to that. For one, people go a little weird when it snows as far as groceries are concerned. Gotta have their milk, eggs and bread, you know? Think these people are feasting on french toast during snow storms? I’ve always wondered about that. Milk eggs and bread? Why? If the power goes out you can’t do anything with the eggs. Milk and bread are nice, but doesn’t it make more sense to get bread, mustard and lunch meat? You know, something you can eat without cooking. Just in case you lose power. Of course our stove is gas, so even if we lose power, I can cook. I just have to light the burner manually. Oh yes, the second reason for not looking forward to the grocery store… Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Everyone is rushing around to get the stuff that they forgot to pick up earlier. Someone forgot the cranberries. Someone else is in desperate need of some turkey size oven bags. There’s probably someone out there who decided at the 11th hour that they want to make ham instead of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, and while we’re at it, let’s do the bread from scratch and bake a pecan pie instead of pumpkin.