Sonnet 87

Thank you, KitchenAid® 5-Speed Ultra Power® Hand Mixer, for coming into my life precisely when I needed you most. You see, for years I have now done everything with raw, manual labor, be it mixing cake batter, kneading encanelado dough, making cakeballs, or stirring up trouble by making chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies that [...]

Happy Christmas from the WordNerdia-IPia household.  And now, my favorite Christmas song and the classic claymation cartoon that goes with it.

It’s Christmas at WordNerdia-IPia ground zero!
Thanks to last week’s snowstorm (and the panic that ensued), IP and I weren’t able to get all the fixings we needed for Christmas dinner—we plan on solving this by trekking over to our local Giant, but I have to say I’m viewing this expedition with a bit to trepidation. [...]

Like, brr.
It is cold and wet out there. Absolutely miserable. Snow would be much preferable, and this is coming from a chick who despises the white stuff.
This morning I dragged myself out of bed at 6am, took a warm shower, bundled up, then took a cab down to West Potomac Park to run the Jingle [...]

Playing around with WordPress themes is dangerous — one should always remember that! I tried out a theme, switched back to my old one, my settings in my old one were not preserved (the hell!?), and then I accidentally upgraded the old one (the upgrade sucked!). So now I’m stuck with this one until I [...]

IP and I were all excited, having set up and trimmed our new Christmas tree. We plugged in the lights, ready to be delighted.
The top third of the tree didn’t light up at all. D’oh!
We tried to fix the problem by switching out fuses, but the last third of our tree remains stubbornly and depressingly [...]

It was snowing in D.C. It does look pretty, but it makes me Grinch-y more than anything—it just reminds me that people around here have no idea how to remove snow or drive in snowy conditions. If this were to last to the beginning of the week, Armageddon would be in order given that it’s [...]

Probably because I didn’t sleep a wink. I hate a certain, local four-star hotel because a) the heating and cooling sucks, 2), the walls are as thin as can be, and Roman Numeral III) the bed may be celestial, but the pillows certainly aren’t. Ouch, my neck. Also? This place has gotten old. Amenities and [...]

Everyone who reads this blog knows I have strange dreams. From talking five-month-old baby boys to Voldemort bringing about Armageddon, I’ve posted it all. Last night’s was horrifying and funny.
I dreamed my husband and I were having a great time (ahem) and that I had to leave for some sort of work; the passage of [...]