Author Archives: shallowwater
Adventures in Homemade Laundry Detergent, Round 2
I have finally (nearly) run out of homemade laundry detergent! That’s what, nearly a year for a one person household? I confess, I completely failed to keep track of how many loads that was, but not bad! Also, I’m not … Continue reading
you know that thing you wanted? google is here to help you find it
I was bitching with a friend today about how I wished that there was a program that would pull your ‘scrobbles’ (aka playcounts) stored on Last.fm and re-import them back into your iTunes library. I wanted this because I went … Continue reading
Disposable Email
I recently found myself in want of a disposable email address that could accept attachments. My usual goto for this sort of thing is mailinator.com, but they do not allow attachments. TRAGEDIES. However, a few minutes of googling got me … Continue reading
Adventures in homemade laundry detergent
This page was quite helpful in determining what exactly I needed to be doing. I went for a dry recipe, and scaled it WAY down as I doing laundry just for myself. Some additional reading on borax and washing soda … Continue reading
One Woman Hate Squad; or I AM DISAPOINT, SON
Note: contains discussion of rape and rape culture In complete and total honesty, I never meant to have a vendetta against Pandagon. Or Amanda Marcotte. In fact, I used to fucking love that blog. i would even say that for … Continue reading
Whale!
If I were getting married, I would ask for this set of whale-themed items (no, I don’t know why I would need to be getting married to acquire these items, other than I can’t/don’t want to afford them on my … Continue reading
Living with disappointment
For some reason, I have always imagined Vodka tomato sauce to be somehow exceptionally delicious. As such, I splurged a bit on groceries last week and got a bottle of the Lucini Vodka Sauce It’s not that it was terrible, … Continue reading
Finding a new best friend
Since my not-really-a-breakup with Pandagon (I still refresh obsessively /o\ ), I’ve been on the hunt for new feminist blogs to fill the void. Thankfully, I Blame the Patriarchy has been briefly active, so I enjoyed and was dismayed by … Continue reading
ANGER: I haz it.
Things that happen often: I read Pandagon.net for a feminist analysis of the world around me. This analysis is often combined with general pop culture. Today we got a post about the soccer and the World Cup which is about … Continue reading
Creamy Chewy Caramels
I’ve been on something of a sugar binge, and nothing will do but for me to teach myself how to make the caramels I want. The first time I tried to make caramels, I used this recipe from 101Cookbooks, and … Continue reading
finding the things i want for a price i like!
Mitchco taught me an amazing secret recently! Using Google Alerts to tell me when craigslist (or other sites) list the toys I want! Specifically, I’ve been looking for a Roomba of my very own to help keep my apartment clean … Continue reading
pretty dresses, how i long for thee
True Story: I had completely forgotten that I had changed the layout on my blog, so I was pleasantly surprised when I visited just now. To make this a slightly less worthless entry, I will also tell you that I … Continue reading
finished at long last!
I’ve finally finished one of my knitting projects! it seems like it has taken me forever and a day, but the handwarmers I wanted to give mitchco for Christmas are finally completed! Actually, I finished them and mailed them off … Continue reading
grosgrain
I don’t think I’ve ever posted about this, but there is a lovely woman who makes beautiful clothes (mostly for her daughters, but recently she seems to be branching out into adult things), takes breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL pictures of the, and … Continue reading
doing it the hard way
I bought some beautiful Manos del Uruguray Silk Blend from the Hill Country Weavers in a lovely moss color a couple months ago. This is the first yarn I’ve bought that came in skeins instead of pre-wound balls. Foolishly, I … Continue reading
