…so we’re experimenting with some homemade insulation for our windows. I’ve done one of the two windows in the kitchen so far. We only bought a small package of bubble wrap, so we could see how well it worked. When we can, we’ll pick up a larger package and do the other windows in the [...]
We taught Trevor how to play Uno last night. Marc taught me how to annoy people by saying “Uno!” randomly when you don’t really have Uno. I learned too well. Moira, Marc and I won; Trevor was catching on by the end of the rounds (we had one never-ending hand, wherein everyone seemed to build [...]
…we’re paring down to make it through our underemployed phase. I’m working, the kids aren’t for right now (one’s job came to an end, the other ended their job long past when they should have) excepting insomuch as they help out at home of course. This means we need to up the fun, and down [...]
They may be in our future! Marc asked me if I knew how to make tortillas, or maybe just if I knew where to find a good recipe, and it was just the opening I needed to share a recipe I’d recently bookmarked (for him). The Fresh Loaf posted a pictorial tutorial on how to [...]
Okay, so the truth is less salacious than the title here:
We played a new-to-us game last night: Bananagrams* and during one round, Alice won the hand with P-O-R-N.
The game in a nutshell: 144 tiles (Scrabble-like tiles, but without any points). Each player starts with the same number of tiles, forming their own words in front [...]
So now that I have a job again (oh, yay! yay! YAY!) it’s time to think about what comes next – or at least in this tiny break between “unemployment” and “employment”.
It’s already clear that Moira intends to keep me hopping with make-up jobs (she’s got something going on every weekend for a month or [...]
Arlette came over this evening for a rousing game of Munchkin (following the amazing pot roast Marc made – oh, yum!). Munchkin is the perfect geek-game – it’s a bit slow to learn, but after half-a-hand or so, even the new folks realize that screwing each other over is the name [...]