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Posted on October 21, 2009
Archives have been moved here: http://divineangst.wordpress.com. I’ll leave things here for a little while longer before I do a redirect.

new and old

Posted on October 01, 2009
So I started a new job. The transition was expected?I’ve been waiting to start this job for over a year now, in fact?and it’s been pretty smooth so far. The biggest change is that I get up every day knowing exactly what I’m supposed to do that day...

bistro dinner

Posted on August 06, 2009
Somehow I managed to pull off a major win tonight with dinner. Skirt steak, green beans, and mashed potatoes doesn’t sound all that groundbreaking?or even interesting?but it managed to kind of be both. First, I marinated the skirt steak for about half an hour, maybe a touch longer, in a mixture of lime juice (2 [...

keeping busy on a Sunday afternoon

Posted on July 26, 2009
I made a dress today. My first dress! It turned out pretty good. The pattern is Simplicity 3875 (otherwise referred to as the Duro Junior.) I didn’t make the more traditional Duro view; I made the v-neck with the crossover banding. Here’s what I learned: My pattern was the wrong size, so I [...

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dessert is a good thing

Posted on July 25, 2009
Also, I made soufflés tonight. We had a sweet tooth. Buttered and sugared ramekins: Melted chocolate: This recipe always makes THREE, not TWO. One of these days I’ll remember that. The reason this is a problem tonight is that I doubled the original recipe because the ramekins I currently have are 2 cup ramekins, not [...

finished!

Posted on July 25, 2009
I finally finished my skirt, and I have to say, it didn’t turn out too badly. The zipper is still completely messed up, and the trim is slightly uneven, but overall, I think it turned out pretty cute. Next up: a cute sundress in a fun sunflowery fabric...

something fancy for dinner

Posted on July 18, 2009
I live in a great city for meat. Despite that, I’ve never bought meat anywhere but at the local grocery store or Whole Foods. The former has a pretty terrible selection and the quality isn’t terrific; the latter is just too damn expensive for every day...

Friday night cocktail

Posted on July 17, 2009
It hasn’t been a bad week; things are picking up a bit at work, and I’m still feeling flush with the success of last weekend’s skirt making. I wanted to keep the good going, so I’ve spent tonight doing things I enjoy: watching trash movies and having a cocktail...

working with my hands

Posted on July 13, 2009
Snapping out of a funk is sometimes as simple as doing something with your hands. Being in a funk, I decided to do something with my hands–but something that would not cause me to gain weight, as my favorite hands-on hobby, cooking, tends to do...

Gloomy ruminations

Posted on July 11, 2009
So it’s been a while. I’m still here. I’m wanting to write again, but there’s not much I can say right now. Work is verboten and there’s not much going on in my life besides work. That’s not to say I’m crazy busy?indeed, my schedule is very manageable...

Finally!

Posted on April 11, 2009
I have been pretty busy the last few weeks so haven’t been keeping up with Joss Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse. This morning I am watching the backlog of episodes, starting with the seventh, I guess. That’s one after the show stopped being boring and started having an arc and some actual good dialog (aka, witty [...

congruence

Posted on April 06, 2009
It’s nice when things come around. I’m working on a case right now that involves a law in my state that was the basis for my 1L legal writing memo. Even better, the client is extremely cost-sensitive, making me the absolute perfect person to be working on this case, since I’ve already done [...

tired and struggling

Posted on March 24, 2009
When it rains, it pours. And I really mean it. Two weeks ago, I got staffed on something that I was told would be blowing up in our faces over the following six weeks. Immediately after that, a long-term matter I’m on also went into overdrive, headed for a filing deadline in, yes, about [...

oof

Posted on March 10, 2009
In a final, desperate attempt to lose that summer associate weight (god, almost two years later), I caved and did something I have never, ever done. I bought an exercise video. Namely, the 30-Day Shred. I thought I was in decent shape, even if a little flabby and a few pounds too heavy...

somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!

Posted on March 09, 2009
I think God has a finely tuned sense of humor. Or at least, he enjoys irony. Yesterday, our landlord emailed us asking if we thought we’d be renewing our lease. We spent some time crafting a response to her, opening up a negotiation. We’d like our rent to go back to the original [...

football snacks

Posted on February 01, 2009
My best friend’s mom (and my best friend, for that matter) make this excellent dip called prairie fire, and I gave it a whirl tonight for the Super Bowl. Their recipe calls for using New Orleans style red beans, because they’re from Louisiana...

dinner tonight

Posted on January 21, 2009
The only thing left in the fridge tonight was pork chops. Good ones, from Whole Foods, but still, pork chops. I was a little later getting home tonight, so I didn’t have a ton of time to cook anything, and with pork chops, there’s always a big risk of a fast cooking method causing [...

disaster.

Posted on January 19, 2009
I suppose there is no chance that they won’t completely screw this up.

food with pictures!

Posted on January 19, 2009
I made braised short ribs again tonight. This time, I used boneless short ribs, substituted cremini mushrooms for the carrots, and used fresh rosemary instead of dried thyme. It turned out nicely, but not as flavorful as the last batch. Thankfully, short ribs are cheap, so I can keep trying this! I also [...

food is good

Posted on January 09, 2009
I haven’t sewn anything in a while?I’m waiting on a new order of fabric to finally make myself a rockin’ tote bag?so I don’t have any new crafty things to post about. But I do have food to post about. I decided to branch out from my usual weeknight cooking this week, and bought some beef short [...

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 01, 2009
Every year, Mr. Angst and I have a special New Year’s brunch at home?eggs benedict, mimosas, and cafe au lait.[1] We have our own special way of making the eggs benedict, though. A now-closed restaurant in our old hometown used to make what they called eggs commodore: poached egg and hollandaise, yes, but [...

Last crafty post of the year

Posted on December 31, 2008
I made the last bag of 2008 tonight. Also, my mother opened her birthday present early?the penultimate bag of 2008, as it turns out?so I thought I’d go ahead and post pictures of them. Mom’s bag is rather big, made of very similar fabric as the brown one I made for my sister-in-law...

crafty success update

Posted on December 26, 2008
Nephew’s hat was too small. Kid has a big head! Luckily, my mother-in-law has a sewing machine, so we stopped by a fabric store down the road, picked up a remnant of fleece pretty much the same color as the original hat, and I made a new one...

holiday travel blues

Posted on December 24, 2008
Bad weather is never a good thing, but it’s even worse when it coincides with the holidays. Mr. Angst and I are anxiously watching the radar in advance of our drive to the Angst-in-laws’; I have friends currently stuck in a variety of airports, wondering if they’ll be spending Christmas alone instead of with [...

pictures, at long last

Posted on December 21, 2008
I promised pictures! Here, first, is the froggie. There’s nothing posed with them to indicate size, but the body (sans legs) is about 5 inches long. Second, this is the bag with the lining that I LOVE. Here is the adorable hat I made for my nephew...

more with the making of things

Posted on December 20, 2008
As much as I complain about my Saturdays being taken up with stuff, I would rather be busy than sitting on the couch trying to figure out what TV to watch. To wit, today I got up, went to yoga, made lunch (migas! yum!), dashed out to Target (in the snow, no less), and [...

squee!

Posted on December 17, 2008
I am pulling within shooting distance of being done with Christmas gift-making. I finished the first of the nephew-bound stuffed animals?a cute little froggie, of which I will post pictures sometime. In order to finish it, I had to take a quick after-work trip to the craft store, though, and left with twelve [...

success!

Posted on December 06, 2008
I made a bag today. I’m pretty proud of it. Despite a few mishaps (like the lining not lining up with the outer bag at the corners, and completely missing the lining while doing my topstitch), it turned out pretty nicely. Of course, it’s also about 65% of the size I thought [...

painstaking

Posted on November 19, 2008
The only problem with hemming your own pants is how damn painstaking it is. I have a machine that will do a blind hem stitch, but it’s damn hard to do that on a heavy pant, like a denim trouser. Frankly, it’s hard to do on a pant hem generally, nevermind the fabric, [...

a different kind of success

Posted on November 16, 2008
Last month, I bought a cute, short-sleeved cardigan on sale. It didn’t fit all that well?like a lot of ready-to-wear clothes, it was too baggy in the waist for my body, adding 10 pounds to my frame. But it was $10, so I bought it anyway, thinking it might be OK as a [...

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