http://lillowen.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:58:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this before, but my older brother Darren is the super smart, super sciency type.  He is a PhD in Chemistry and doesn't even make us call him Dr. Anderson.  I took grade 11 Chemistry, got a fairly respectable B (mostly thanks to many ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/30/explodey/ Mike and I celebrated our anniversary yesterday, which means I drank a celebratory margarita and ate celebratory chicken across the table from a man who has somehow been happily married for seven years to the sort of person who would change her mind three times about where she wanted to ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/27/anniversary/ There are a lot of Mennonite farms around here, many of which sell their farm-related wares right from their barns.  They often have large hand-lettered signs hung on their gates, advertising which produce or meat they sell and letting people know they're not open on Sunday.  We drove past one ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/26/one-stop-shop/ Mike and I don't have any direct involvement with any babies at this point in time (which is to say we know some babies and quite enjoy those babies but are not responsible in any way for those babies' food, shelter, or general well-being) so we're certainly not experts on ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/20/doggy-paddle/ I think I've mentioned before that I like to run.  I'm not really sure why I like it, because it's painful and my body doesn't always respond well to it and it requires expensive shoes, but I do enjoy it and as far as sports go, it's a much better ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/14/spoiler-alert/ I read voraciously as a child, but it was only a few months ago that I finally got around to reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, primarily because my brother really liked that series and at that time in my life anything my brother liked was automatically super lame ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/13/the-outside-of-the-asylum/ Mike, of course, does a rather large share of the cleaning at our house, but I'm doing my best to take on the greater share of it since I work fewer hours than he does and also I'm generally around a lot of the time when the mess is ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/11/ms-clean/ Mike and I like to watch a show called Numb3rs.  Yes, there really is a 3 instead of an e, and yes, I felt like an idiot typing that, but what are you going to do.  Anyway, the basic premise of the show is that the nerdy sidekick from 10 ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/09/lou-diamond-phillips/ Because you are all very loyal readers, I am going to reward your loyalty and devotion by talking about pudding some more.  (I KNOW!  You're welcome.)  I emailed Mike to tell him about my pudding failure (it eventually did sort of thicken in a disgusting, congealy sort of way, but ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/08/proper-planning/ I think I mentioned before that one of the things I accomplished (or "accomplished" since we're talking about mixing liquids with solids and pouring them into a frozen cylinder here) on our 4-day weekend was making birthday cake ice cream.  Our friends Chris and Pam were coming over for dinner ... http://lillowen.com/2010/07/07/pudding-science/