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I’ve often heard of weight loss and being heavy as being a problem with willpower. “I don’t have enough willpower to stay away from the desserts table”. Pff. I’ve got PLENTY of willpower. I’m stubborn as this here mule. Ain’t he cute? Yep, I’ve got willpower to spare. Just ask my husband, who . . . → Read More: Willpower  Denial is a powerful thing. It’s amazing what people can ignore, given the opportunity and the will. But eventually most (certainly not all) people hit a point where they realize it’s gone too far. Some let it go further than others. I’ve had all the signs of denial for quite a few years. I . . . → Read More: Who the hell is that fat woman in the mirror? As a computer geek IT person, I know the value of a reboot. When in doubt, reboot. If it’s not working, reboot. Someone tells me something’s not working, the first thing I ask is when’s the last time they rebooted. Why reboot? because it resets your memory, and gets rid of all the . . . → Read More: 2012 Reboot I’ve tried lots of different ways of organizing my recipes. purchased cookbook notebooks and index cards (which had to be rewritten by hand from the original sources), a 3-ring binder (printing or ripping or writing recipes onto paper), various online recipe savers/collectors (where you have to enter in all the ingredients from a database), . . . → Read More: Not Your Mother’s Cookbook: Using Google Docs as an Online Cookbook My office chair broke a few months ago. The end of one of the plastic spokes around where it met with the plastic wheel cracked. I tried to glue it, but it just broke again in a different spot. I continued to use it while I searched around for a replacement. As I continued . . . → Read More: Durable Goods When you grow lots of tomatoes in the garden, you need to figure out what to do with them. While my garden harvest this year wasn’t as large as years past, I still feel a thrill in using stuff from my own garden to make dinner. I used about 1 lb of roma tomatoes . . . → Read More: Recipe: Marinara Style Roasted Tomato Sauce Today I’m spending time at my desktop computer, reinstalling Windows 7 to see if I can get some speed back into it. This generally takes a long time, and mostly involves a lot of thumb-twiddling between steps. So, I decided to tackle a project in the office. Today’s project is “The Spaghetti Box”. The . . . → Read More: Taming The Spaghetti Monster I’ve just returned from Vacation. Nearly every year for the past 6 years I’ve gone to Pennsic, an annual event for the Society for Creative Anachronism. It’s held Northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and draws over 10,000 people from around the globe to share in an event for lovers of medieval history. For me, it’s . . . → Read More: Non-Minimalist Camping and the Vacation Plastic Blues In my journey to simplify and do things for myself, I try lots of different things like making your own laundry detergent, making vanilla extract, using bar shampoo, etc. And while I share my successes and how-to’s, I think it’s important to also note when things aren’t working like I think they should, to . . . → Read More: Your Mileage May Vary…When Your DIY Doesn’t Do It I am not a great gardener. I try, I dabble, and I fail an awful lot. Growing weeds, that I can do. My garden teems with them, and I have a very hard time keeping up. But every year I try again, telling myself I’ll do better. I’ve never had that better year, but . . . → Read More: Black Thumb Gardening |
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