Orange is for pumpkin puree. (See "before" photo, at right)
Blue is for blueberries in the pumpkin blueberry muffins (Mets colors -- Hi, Margaret!) which has too much sugar in it -- Americans are nuts: I will be revising the recipe downward to 1.5 or 1.0 cups of sugar next time. Sheesh. But I suppose better too sweet than too bland... Then again, the recipe claims 15 muffins, while I got 20 out of the batch.
Red is for the FLASHING ERROR LIGHT on my computer. Apparently my battery has died. Permanently. Considering it's lasted me 23 months, this seems to be 9 months longer than the average customer review on the Dell website would seem to indicate.
So while I'm cranky at having to buy another battery ($135 OEM via Dell, $45 non-OEM on ebay) I guess I had a less crappy battery than most Dell Vostro 1500 owners. Lucky me. (Did I mention that the laptop occasionally doesn't recognize when the AC supply is plugged in? THAT'S been since day 1, as Hilary would say.)
I will console myself with (a) more blueberries at my local supermarket (2 pints for $3! Score!) and (b) a console table (heh... I punned, I know -- sorry). Unsurprisingly for a librarian, my books have overflowed my shelves, and so I have purchased the 'Oxford 47" Open Console Table' in "Merlot" from Home Decorators Outlet. Also unsurprisingly, I have gone cheap: a solid wood table for $83 WITH shipping.
Believe it or not, it is actually a replacement for an even more inexpensive pair of LACK tables from IKEA which I inherited from my friend Ellen years ago. For those of you who have been in the cave of clutter that is my home, you can visualize it next to my couch, facing you when you enter the apartment. (Get this: my couch, the Green Monster, is 45" deep. Heh.)
The "Merlot" finish should go with the wood carving in my couch frame, Ethan Allen's Pratt sofa which is shown in a lighter wood on the website. (It being my first grown up furniture purchase -- a whole 5 years ago! -- I did not realize that not only do you get to choose the upholstery, you can choose the wood finish too!)
Okay, time to go to sleep, so that I can continue to remain employed in order to afford this schizophrenic consumerism. Ciao!
Blue is for blueberries in the pumpkin blueberry muffins (Mets colors -- Hi, Margaret!) which has too much sugar in it -- Americans are nuts: I will be revising the recipe downward to 1.5 or 1.0 cups of sugar next time. Sheesh. But I suppose better too sweet than too bland... Then again, the recipe claims 15 muffins, while I got 20 out of the batch.
Red is for the FLASHING ERROR LIGHT on my computer. Apparently my battery has died. Permanently. Considering it's lasted me 23 months, this seems to be 9 months longer than the average customer review on the Dell website would seem to indicate.
So while I'm cranky at having to buy another battery ($135 OEM via Dell, $45 non-OEM on ebay) I guess I had a less crappy battery than most Dell Vostro 1500 owners. Lucky me. (Did I mention that the laptop occasionally doesn't recognize when the AC supply is plugged in? THAT'S been since day 1, as Hilary would say.)
I will console myself with (a) more blueberries at my local supermarket (2 pints for $3! Score!) and (b) a console table (heh... I punned, I know -- sorry). Unsurprisingly for a librarian, my books have overflowed my shelves, and so I have purchased the 'Oxford 47" Open Console Table' in "Merlot" from Home Decorators Outlet. Also unsurprisingly, I have gone cheap: a solid wood table for $83 WITH shipping.Believe it or not, it is actually a replacement for an even more inexpensive pair of LACK tables from IKEA which I inherited from my friend Ellen years ago. For those of you who have been in the cave of clutter that is my home, you can visualize it next to my couch, facing you when you enter the apartment. (Get this: my couch, the Green Monster, is 45" deep. Heh.)
The "Merlot" finish should go with the wood carving in my couch frame, Ethan Allen's Pratt sofa which is shown in a lighter wood on the website. (It being my first grown up furniture purchase -- a whole 5 years ago! -- I did not realize that not only do you get to choose the upholstery, you can choose the wood finish too!)
Okay, time to go to sleep, so that I can continue to remain employed in order to afford this schizophrenic consumerism. Ciao!
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