Category Archives: Chris

Meat Month: I don’t know what a Jedi is, but I know this is some Jedi mind-trickery

We’re coming up on our final week of Whole30 and things are looking up. I haven’t woken up feeling sluggish since day 16 (that arrived right on schedule, they tell me) and other than my quinoa-based stress dreams, I’m doing … Continue reading

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Meat Month: Three days in and it’s GOING GREAT, OKAY?!

We have now started Meat Month, which is a term I appropriated from Erica, who is freshly off her Whole30 and (hopefully) elbow deep in a cheeseburger with the bun and some french fries cooked in peanut oil and dipped … Continue reading

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Hummus and cheeses and all the things I cannot have

Maybe homemade hummuses (hummusi?) have been done to death, I do not know, but I feel like I always see Twitter asking for homemade hummus recipes, so I thought I’d share mine. Please note, I don’t use tahini. I tried … Continue reading

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It’s offically autumn, ergo, it’s time to update you on my SIWLTDTSBPWBIGTCOMCWTA/COAWHH List

And just like that, summer is over, so I suppose it’s time to check in and see how I did on my Stuff I Would Like To Do This Summer But Probably Won’t Because I’m Going To Collapse On My … Continue reading

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Updatin’

I’m here! I’m here I’m here I’m here! The meeting can start now! Oh shit, you’ve already started. Well anyway, I’m here. Insert excuses about work being SO BUSY and I was out of town and anyway, now I’m not … Continue reading

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Confession time

Sometimes I mock-interview LG: “So LG, tell me, how does it feel to look exactly like your father?” “Do you think there will be any long-lasting effects from dressing like him from August through February every year?” “Is there anything … Continue reading

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There are 24 usable hours in every day

There are 168 hours in a week. I didn’t know that — I could easily have figured it out, but, eh — but Holly wrote this post yesterday and I thought I’d follow suit. In case you haven’t noticed, I … Continue reading

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School’s out forever

Everyone’s making a Summer Bucket List or a Summer To-Do List or a Things I’m Doing This Summer List or maybe just a Stuff I Would Like To Do This Summer But Probably Won’t Because I’m Going To Collapse On … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on this fine Wednesday-that-feels-like-a-Tuesday

I don’t know why, but the daycare ladies think it’s really amusing to put LG’s hair up into “pigtails,” and every time I get home from work, I see her with these pigtails and I’m sorry, but it just looks … Continue reading

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Oh yeah, I have a new kitchen…

Well! It was just about forever ago — or so it seems because as my last ominous post so obviously pointed out, I’ve been busy and tired and woe-to-me — that we redid the kitchen! It has been done for … Continue reading

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