Epic Tales from the Basement of Doom

So I was going boxes of my old stuff to get ready for a yard sale (ahh! The pain! – but more on that subject in a later post). What did I end up doing the entire evening? Pricing things for sale? Cleaning up old treasures to make them more appealing to the buyer? Not [...]

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“Fun With Iceland” or “Kim is Bored at Work”

Ever wondered what Iceland is like? No??? Well my goal is provide you with a virtual tour of our island neighbor to the northeast and make you rue the day you said you didn’t care about Iceland. Here we go….
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Tempting CuisineYUMMMMM – check out the national food of Iceland. Once you taste this you’ll be [...]

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Desperate times….

Well – you know the rest of the sentence. And desperate measures, here we come. After Zipper almost sent Randy over the edge last night with her chewing, cat attacking, and overall crazy madness I decided the battle had reached a new level and I needed to begin pumping up the weaponry. I had to [...]

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Hurry

No time! This will be a lightning speed post, so hold onto your hats!
Afghan Antics
There seems to be some confusion about my afghan concerns. Thanks, commenters, for your well wishes that the afghan will look okay once finished. But that was never my concern – yes I know it looks like a muppet or maybe [...]

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Zookeeper

Are the inmates running the asylum? Are the animals controlling the zoo? Yes they are – at least here at Chez Marksberry. I realized this tonight after I vacuumed the living room for the fourth time this weekend. Now I have known for a while that we were in trouble. We humans are, after [...]

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Spicy

Ever have one of those days when you have a feeling of doom about the meal you are cooking from the moment you begin – and it turns out you were right to feel that way? When, during each major step of the recipe, you think “I should stop now – I can still pretend [...]

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Diet Success?

Welcome to my second post. I haven’t postd in nearly a week because of some confusion over my username which turned out to be caused by my inattention to detail. Oh well – I’ve never been a detail person – now I just pretend to be for work.
Though I still don’t know for sure what [...]

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Baby Steps

I have no idea what this blog is about. I just know that I want to create a blog – mostly for my own selfish reasons. After four years at a job where I have learned to second guess myself as second nature, I had a minor panic attack. I was writing a speech for [...]

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