Pass me a margarita

My day today began with fishing a dead mouse out of the pot that was soaking in the sink. I don’t know whether to be grateful that it was (a) dead and that (b) I didn’t have to dislodge it from a mousetrap or grossed out. Or both.
Then, after I discovered that I washed – [...]

Going up . . . alone

Blessing the Torah before a public reading is called an aliyah, which is translated as “going up.” We read Torah every Monday and Thursday, as well as on holidays and other festive days. Today happens to be Rosh Chodesh Elul – the beginning of the Jewish month Elul, so at services this morning we read [...]

I am woman . . .

So this week I finally decided to keep my art/craft workspace (studio just sounds so, eh, pretentious) downstairs as part of the dining room/family room L. Sidenote: is it a family room if there is no family to sit in it? Should I call it the den now? But den sounds so wood paneled, and [...]

I feel like Bob Vila!

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One of my spring break tasks was to deal with the moldy grout in the shower. Yuck.
I tried Oxy Clean. It got the tiles cleaner-than-clean, but didn’t tackle the grout at all. Boo.
So back to Home Depot I went and I purchased a Clorox Bleach Pen. I also purchased some stuff that I [...]

Wanna meetup?

One of the things that I did after my husband moved out was to check out www.meetup.com. Meetup is a website where people can organize events. There are all kinds of groups ranging from dining out groups to hiking and camping groups to groups for single or divorced people. There are quite a few groups [...]

Can we talk about the garbage?

For all the years that we’ve lived in a home where you actually have to put the garbage and recycling at the curb (as opposed to when we lived in a condo with that wonderful invention – the trash chute), it’s been his job to put the cans out.
Well, for many of those years, it [...]

Things I never thought I could do

I’m a reasonably successful woman, I think. I mean, I’m a college graduate, I’ve been working for over 20 years, I run a small business from my home, and I managed to raise two kids and not kill them in the process. But there are always those things that I left to my husband to [...]