Posted by: thelizardlady on: July 7, 2009
22 years ago, as a wedding gift, I got a waffle iron. The marriage is gone, but I still have the waffle iron and it still works great. The recipe is an old family recipe, handed down at least from my grandmother. It might have come from a previous generation, I don’t really know. I’m [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: July 6, 2009
So, I’m cleaning my kitchen. Really cleaning. Assessing things I own to see if I want them or would ever use them. My spice drawer is overflowing, my spice rack is… filled with the spices that came with it. Or was. I discovered the jars leaked so that airborne humidity solidified much of the contents, [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: June 8, 2009
I can’t garden with my injuries, but I have a perennial that opted to bloom for the first time ever this year. This is my amazing black iris. I love it! I have a thing for black flowers. I should look into more! For some reason, it only imports sideways! But it is still nice! [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: April 26, 2009
I have this ladder. It’s big. 32 feet. I can’t get it up. Once it’s up, I’m pretty good with it, but I simply cannot raise it by myself, because of a combination of weight and length. I need help with it, and then I can paint the biggest side of my house. It’s all [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: March 16, 2009
Blue has won by a resounding margin. I had one vote for “use both” and one for “definitely purple” (from someone who lives and breathes purple), and every other vote was for the blue (even my boss’s rabbit selected blue, or at least my boss told me that). I’ll post pictures when it’s all done, [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: March 14, 2009
I think “do-it-yourself” is a euphemism for “hideously slow progress.” If you hire someone to do Job A, they come in and do Job A. If you attempt Job A, you get 1/3 of the way into it before you realize that really, you should do Job B before you finish Job A, because it [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: March 12, 2009
Sometimes you just need to break stuff. Today, I broke a wall that had cat urine in it. It was there before we moved in, and got worse after my cats marked over the other cats’ smells. It has not been a pretty smelling job. This is what it looks like now (again, bad cell [...]
I know people who intentionally hurt themselves as a means of proving that they have control over themselves. I’ve seen the results, but I don’t fully understand it. I’m of the opinion that one should not try to hurt oneself very often. However, in practice… I’m not so good at that. I wanted to move [...]
Posted by: thelizardlady on: February 23, 2009
I’m still renovating, or, more accurately, rejuvenating select areas of my home, including my bedroom. I’ve patched walls extensively, sanded, and located three of the four gallons of paint I need to finish the job. I’ve sanded, and now that the dust has settled, I decided to do all the ladder-necessary painting. At least the [...]
