Our bookshelf goes from Boethius to Bradbury. Alan Dean Foster to John Fowles

[rootofnewt]

explodingcat: "Given the state of the shower, I have my doubts about a woman ever living here."

Yes, years of soap scum, folks. One man and a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser will take care of it, though given the state of his wrists and arms, it will take a few days. Fortunately, we still have another house with a shower.

Today has been a day of wintry mix--mostly ice pellets with some snow. It's been lovely--cold outside sounding like oh-so-many-pounds of buckshot are raining from the sky. We moved some stuff earlier today--lots of kitchen stuff.

I need to talk to my dad about spice racks. I can't decide if it's cheaper for me to build my own or if I should just buy pine/spruce racks (shelf, wall-mount) from ikea for 3.99 apiece. Anything I build would be more like a shadow box with several boxy sections. Problems with it--I have no sawhorses, no clamps, no level. I could buy those, but that + wood + varnish will run up a fast bill. On the other hand, the satisfaction I get out of it would be great. Hrm. I'm thinking I should drop 30-40 bucks at Ikea for the time being. And then later I can build a nice rack that will last for approximately five hundred million years (I have great faith in tree sap disasters). I can always sell the things for 1-2 bucks apiece at a garage sale.

I realized today that I would never get around to posting a classified ad for the washer and dryer, so I talked to boy. We were going to offer them up for 50 bucks--buyer moves them and takes *both*. Boy decided that he'd rather not worry about it, so I put 'em up on Freecycle. Now I just have to decide who gets 'em. Our Freecycle isn't necessarily a first come, first serve, which is good--our server doesn't deliver mail in order, anyhow. All responses go to the sender, not the list. I admit, I'm more prone to choosing folks who give a specific reason than folks who say, "I think I could find something to do with them." Yeah, sorry, you better be washing tack or your kids clothes, not turning around and selling them. Not that I really care. I shouldn't care, I suppose.

I have a confession to make. On snowy days as a kid, my favorite lunch was tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. The cheese didn't have to be those horrific slices, but I didn't complain when it was. Well, I've been craving that combo. We had a bit of snow Thursday night and I wanted grilled cheese and tomato soup. So I bought Amy's Creamy Tomato Bisque last night, along with organic american cheese slices. I had Ener-G's tapioca bread, but I left it at the other house.

Well, today, guess what I had for lunch? Oh, it was wonderful. Boy used some of the bisque in his impromptu pork dish for his supper and I used the rest over brown rice for part of my dinner. Just now, I made myself another sandwich. This cheese even melts like plastic, though there's nothing nasty in it. Amazing.

I'm quite proud of boy, by the way. He made meat without a recipe. He even had gorgeous presentation. I'm trying to get him to write down the recipe to share, but now that he's done it, he realizes why I rarely write down every dish I make--it's so simple, it seems like anyone can throw it together. Thing is, not everyone can cook like that.

Maybe he'll share.

I shelved more books today. I ran out of shelf space halfway through Simmons. Actually, I was halfway through Somtow, when I found more Simmons and more Rutherfurd. There's a metric shitload of robbins, vonnegut, woolf, tolstoy, and spy novels. Yes, I'm giving spy novels their own section. I probably won't keep them all, so that can be a revolving collection.

krasota: Our bookshelf goes from Boethius to Bradbury. Isn't that wrong?
explodingcat: Boethius to Brown would be wronger. Of course, people will think Dan Brown, not Dale Brown.
krasota: Bradbury to Brown, dear. It's not like I can get rid of the Bradbury, unless we segregate Science Fiction.
explodingcat: Dewey Decimal is looking better and better.

Hey, Dale Brown is good action/thriller/spy stuff. I like it.

Comments

[intuitionsvoice.livejournal.com]

my favorite spice racks are these old two tiered round rotating stands my mom had. you can fit tons of spices on them, except you can't easily see the ones in the middle.

I think I'll act like myself now. Boy doesn't even know what a lazy susan is.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have one double tiered lazy susan. I'll use it on the table for methi, sumakh, salt, pepper, trocomare, and brewer's yeast (in other words, table seasonings).

My problem: lack of counter space and cabinet space. I need to mount stuff on the walls. Also, my spices are in containers of various sizes and shapes, so those rotating ones aren't so useful. I buy nearly all my herbs and spices in small amounts in the bulk section and then put them into my own glass jars or metal tins. Lots of oddly shaped jars and lots of small jelly jars.