animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

dark ages

My dishwasher died yesterday. I’m so sad. 🙁 Not only that, but my stove’s been iffy so I ordered a new one on Saturday. I’m not sure who’s paying for all of this, but thank goodness for Home Depot financing. To add insult to injury, Home Depot had exactly zero …

bernie

This movie was billed as a black comedy (which I do not enjoy), but it was done in a mockumentary style (which I do enjoy). It told the real-life story of Bernie Tiede, a man who was convicted of murdering a wealthy 81 year-old widow with whom he was friends. …

die hard

Somehow I managed to get through life (until last night) without seeing this movie. I’m not sure why I never watched it before. At any rate, it was pretty good for an action movie–not much to think about while watching this one, though.

dexter: season 6: disc 2

This is an open letter to whoever (I say ‘whoever’ because apparently Netflix only has one copy of this disc for the entire United States) has had Dexter: Season 6: Disc 2 out for the past 6+ weeks: Please return it to Netflix, so I can watch it. Kthx.

party time

Our neighbors invited us to an impromptu Halloween party last night. Brian took Jake and the neighbor kid around for trick or treating and they invited us over for pizza afterward. We sat around all evening drinking wine and bs-ing. It was a lot of fun–I’m not sure why we …