I found this typing test on Lemon Shortbread's blog. It was interesting to see where I stand. I tried it twice and got 73 both times. I'm sure my mom can blow my score out of the water. haha.
73 words
Sunday, January 25, 2009
updates!
Sunday consisted of laundry, laundry, listing some Plinis, laundry, oh...and some more laundry. And yes, I'm still doing laundry. I'm in laundry hell I'd say. But the good part out of all of that is I actually got some of the little girls (and some kittehs) up in the shop awaiting new homes. So I feel accomplished. Pat on the back for me!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
spider murder.
I was just catching up on my mom's blog posts and it reminded me about the monster Lou and I encountered yesterday on our way to work. We opened the door to leave and right at the frame of the door was a spider. Ok, this was not just any spider. This was the size of half my hand. It was a MONSTER. And it was trying to get in!! I was afraid it was going to eat the cats. Lou did the manly thing and stepped on it. I can still hear the c-r-u-n-c-h-h-h sound replaying over and over in my head. And the horrible vision of its half-crushed body spasing out, slowly dying. We slammed the door and ran for work. Lou couldn't bear to step on it again, as the one time traumatized him enough. I felt bad. But I tried to convince myself it would have eaten the cats if we hadn't lethally injured it.
Then when we got home later that day, we were expecting to find the body. But there was nothing. No signs of a struggle. Nothing at all. So Lou and I are convinced the spider crawled back to his spider friends and with his dying breath he told all the spiders how we tried to murder him. Now I envision that all of the other spiders are assembling for a surprise super secret ninja attack on us.
Seriously though...this was like tarantula sized.
And the reason I thought of this when I was reading my mom's blog was because knowing her she would have tried to save it. "Spiders are our friends, they eat the other bugs". That's what she would have said. Yes, but with this particular spider, it was either him or us. He surely eats cats..or humans. I wasn't about to wait and see.
Either way...the spiders are forming an alliance against Lou and I as I speak. Maybe they'll go easy on me since I didn't do the actual stomping.
Anyways...other than spider extermination, I've been rather busy! I started early with preparations for my Easter themed items for my shop. And I'm also finishing up a batch of teeny plinis and things. Hopefully I can pull myself together and get those listed by the end of this weekend.
Oh! And I almost forgot...I made a really tasty soup the other day. Lou thinks I'm the MacGyver of cooks. I think it might scare him sometimes. Somehow I make something out of nothing. We'll literally have a piece of lettuce and a pack of ramen noodles in the apartment and suddenly there's a Thanksgiving meal on the table.
So we had a pile of leftover bacon cheese fries from the pizza place we ordered from a few nights ago. I cut them up into cubes and dumped them in the blender with some milk and blended it until it was nice and chunky. Then I put that concoction with some water, corn, lots of butter and spices in a pot and cooked it until it was hot and I liked the consistency. I added more milk if it got too thick. Instant "french fry" soup! Lou didn't like it...but then again he doesn't like anything that's kind of weird.
It was nice not having the fries go to waste. Because otherwise they would have just gotten thrown out. Money and food wasted is never good.
xo
Then when we got home later that day, we were expecting to find the body. But there was nothing. No signs of a struggle. Nothing at all. So Lou and I are convinced the spider crawled back to his spider friends and with his dying breath he told all the spiders how we tried to murder him. Now I envision that all of the other spiders are assembling for a surprise super secret ninja attack on us.
Seriously though...this was like tarantula sized.
And the reason I thought of this when I was reading my mom's blog was because knowing her she would have tried to save it. "Spiders are our friends, they eat the other bugs". That's what she would have said. Yes, but with this particular spider, it was either him or us. He surely eats cats..or humans. I wasn't about to wait and see.
Either way...the spiders are forming an alliance against Lou and I as I speak. Maybe they'll go easy on me since I didn't do the actual stomping.
Anyways...other than spider extermination, I've been rather busy! I started early with preparations for my Easter themed items for my shop. And I'm also finishing up a batch of teeny plinis and things. Hopefully I can pull myself together and get those listed by the end of this weekend.
Oh! And I almost forgot...I made a really tasty soup the other day. Lou thinks I'm the MacGyver of cooks. I think it might scare him sometimes. Somehow I make something out of nothing. We'll literally have a piece of lettuce and a pack of ramen noodles in the apartment and suddenly there's a Thanksgiving meal on the table.
So we had a pile of leftover bacon cheese fries from the pizza place we ordered from a few nights ago. I cut them up into cubes and dumped them in the blender with some milk and blended it until it was nice and chunky. Then I put that concoction with some water, corn, lots of butter and spices in a pot and cooked it until it was hot and I liked the consistency. I added more milk if it got too thick. Instant "french fry" soup! Lou didn't like it...but then again he doesn't like anything that's kind of weird.
It was nice not having the fries go to waste. Because otherwise they would have just gotten thrown out. Money and food wasted is never good.
xo
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