Belated Blatherings

Uppercase Living is the company I was talking about. They have some really neato ideas for creating household knicknacks (their idea recipes in the catalog are cool) and nice gifts for others and I really like the ease of use factor. That all said, one has to wonder if you could find it elsewhere for a bit less. I'm all psyched up by getting to do some serious work on our house over the winter. Some real re-dos of areas that I want to do.

That assumes we don't have any more repeats of last night! As I left you, I went to free the little bird stuck in the fireplace. 45 minutes later, I'm still trying to free what may be the dumbest bird ever to fly. He no longer stuck in the fireplace however. He's now stuck on the ceiling fan, the artificial flowers, the curtain rod, the picture frames, the top of the doorway....THAT'S OPEN TO LET HIM OUTSIDE! Trust me, you have never lived until you're trying to chase a bird out of your house while being trailed by a 60 pound dog and 3 cats.

Once we set the little birdie free..be free little sparrow of stupidity!...we did the chili for Kevin's Office Chili party. For some odd reason, we never save and reuse recipes from year to year which always makes it a lovely evening of "Does that look right to you? Gosh I hope this comes out okay!" Kev tends to cook from the book of "If it says 1lb of meat, 3lbs must be better" so we always have to negotiate over the actual ingredients we use. He's won the top prize last two years so I suppose our process works.

After that I was exhausted so I sat and watched a couple of Third Rock From the Suns. Nick at Night has been showing those and I'd forgotten how funny that show was. Did you watch Samantha Who this week? Jean Smart is a total hoot and I'm really glad you turned me onto this show.