Month: February 2007
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Wintertime… And the shoveling’s easy…
Last night it snowed like the dickens, and snow means that my home owner duties are calling. What it means that I have to get up at the crack of Oh Dark Thirty to shovel. Sadly, that snow doesn’t shovel itself. The good news is that unlike the Valentine’s Day Snow-(which was a hateful, awful…
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Throwing out the towels
Because I have the best boyfriend ever, we now have a new armoire in the unfinished master bath in which we can keep all of our towels. So my project this morning was to move all of our towels from our old armoire (in the bedroom) to the new one. (Have you guessed by now…
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Furniture Building FRENZY!!!!
So Stephanie was gone this past week (in California at a conference and visiting her brother, sister-in-law, and their baby boy B). So I had the house all to myself. Well, almost. You see there is this cat… Joey… that is Stephanie’s best beloved. And not mine so much. We vie for Stephanie’s affection. In…
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Yonkers Arts Council– and a new blog
I met yesterday with a group of artists who are starting the Yonkers Arts Council. It’s a very exciting project, and something that I am going to get involved with. We met at the Philipse Manor Hall, which is a great old house museum. They have a papier-mâché rococo ceiling, which is the only one…
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A quiet prayer to the tivo gods
I don’t watch the show How I Met Your Mother, but somebody on a forum mentioned this, and it was so perfect and fantastic that I had to post it. As you may or may not know, Stephanie and I are a two tivo household– mine and hers. And I have completely come to the…
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The Amy Sedaris Craft Challenge
A few days ago, Amy Sedaris was on the Leonard Lopate show, and she issued a craft challenge to put googly eyes on food. I’m sad to say that I missed the challenge, otherwise I may have spent a few hours trying to think up something funny… But the results are ASTOUNDING and some are…
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Peapod… groceries delivered direct to Yonkers!
Stephanie and I have often lamented about the lack of Fresh Direct here in Yonkers (Fresh Direct is a NY based service started by one of the founders of our favorite market Fairway that delivers fresh food to you for not much of a charge. It’s a very convenient way to get food delivered, and…
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Arts Council Might Be Forming In Yonkers
Great article in LoHud regarding a new artist initiative in Yonkers. Naturally, this is something that I’d like to get involved with. If you want to get involved, too, the Yonkers Arts Council Committee will meet 5:30 p.m., Feb. 12 at Philipse Manor Hall, 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, to continue its discussions. For more information…