limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jan 30, 2012, 12:42 pm
***First, a note: The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) has been re-designed!  It’s still got some tweaking to be done, but hopefully it’s become more user-friendly.*** You know that children’s rhyme, “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage…...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Dec 16, 2011, 1:39 pm
While most people who know me would probably tell you it’s easy to annoy me, they’d also tell you it’s hard to make me mad to the point of writing a bad review of something, or somewhere, or someone.  To make me that pissed off, you really have to do something heinous. Unfortunately, someone...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Nov 16, 2011, 1:18 pm
When I last posted, there was a fair amount of bitterness running around this blog.  The bitterness has improved a bit, but it’s been replaced by something just as hard-to-admit: self-pity and crow-eating. It’s not what you think, though. See, as I’ve previously mentioned, the medical reaso...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Oct 20, 2011, 2:44 pm
It’s officially official… IVF #2 = another big fat failure.  And for the record: yes, I am down-right bitter about it. With the bitterness come even worse isolation, too.  For example, I’m starting to notice that people are uncomfortable around us.  Nobody knows what the “right” thing ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Sep 18, 2011, 8:03 pm
Over the last week it’s become clear that Fall has arrived in the Northeast – and with it, the end of gardening season.  It seems only fitting, then, to do a round-up post of all the gardening fun going on at my house over the last 6 months!  Check out past posts about my gardening adventures ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Aug 30, 2011, 8:58 am
After 8 days of shots, 1 surgery, 1 30-minute procedure done with a bladder full of 40 ounces of water, and more blood draws and dildo cam appointments than I can even count, it’s official: IVF cycle #1 did not work. Call us crazy, but we’re planning to push forward with IVF cycle #2 in about ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jul 31, 2011, 10:43 am
I believe in evolution.  The single-celled-organism-to-man thing makes complete sense to me.  I also believe in the idea of natural selection – survival of the fittest – as a part of evolution.  I figure I believe so strongly in these things because I’ve spent my entire adult life being edu...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jul 8, 2011, 9:00 am
I learned something kind of neat in the last couple of weeks with all this backyard gardening: if you look carefully, it’s easy to figure out which cucumber blossoms are male and which are female!  Perhaps I’m just a science dork, but this has provided me with hours of entertainment lately. If...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jun 22, 2011, 8:45 am
Does anyone remember reading this post when it went up back in August of 2010? I promised you all I wouldn’t talk about all this “trying to get pregnant” nonsense too much, and I think I’ve done a good job of keeping that promise (except for when I had to share this).  Until now.  I have ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jun 21, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jun 14, 2011, 2:50 pm
I thought about saving this for tomorrow and calling this a Wordless Wednesday post… but I changed my mind! This is just a quick show-off post, because I have BROCCOLI growing now!  Two of my four broccoli plants are developing nice little broccoli crowns now that the cabbage worm problem has be...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jun 8, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jun 2, 2011, 8:45 am
…Seems to me you’d stop and see / How beautiful they are…” Remember that song, written by Hans Christian Andersen?  It popped in my head over the weekend when I discovered inch worms – AKA, cabbage worms – all over my broccoli plants! Photo credit: Flickr.com Let me back track for a ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 31, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 26, 2011, 9:01 am
I’ve been taking pictures of my square foot gardening adventure since it began, and today I noticed that I’m starting to see real progress with just about everything I planted.  I wanted to share my time lapse photography (of sorts) with you all, so everyone can check out how our garden is grow...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 11, 2011, 12:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed onl...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 13, 2011, 1:21 pm
I have a confession to make.  I’m a failed vegetarian. I’m really weird about food.  If I can tell what something was before it made it’s way to my plate, I’m unlikely to eat it.  This includes, but is not limited to: chicken legs, bone-in steak, chicken wings, shrimp with shells still o...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 7, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Mar 29, 2011, 8:56 am
I’m posting my Daring Baker’s Challenge a couple of days late this month, and there’s a reason for that – I procrastinated doing this challenge until the absolute last moment possible.  There’s also a reason I procrastinated for so long – this month’s challenge involved yeast. Now, I...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Mar 21, 2011, 7:41 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Mar 9, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed onl...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Feb 27, 2011, 6:31 pm
Last month was an off month for me with Daring Bakers challenges.  I read the challenge, said, “There’s no way I can pull this off,” and promptly bowed out.  I’d hang my head in shame, but then I heard about Nicole’s experience with the January challenge (read about it here), and felt my...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Feb 22, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Feb 8, 2011, 3:38 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jan 21, 2011, 2:00 pm
It’s always fun to have someone to exchange stories with when you’re trying something for the first time, right?  Someone who is going through the same things you are, at the same time you are.  So when Whitney and I discovered we were both taking up home gardening this year, it seemed only na...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jan 14, 2011, 2:00 pm
I’m a bad blogger.  It’s January 14th, and I still haven’t even posted the obligatory “New Year’s Resolutions” post most bloggers like to do around the first of January.  In all fairness, I don’t have a New Year’s resolution this year… but I still feel like a bad blogger. I do h...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Dec 27, 2010, 3:28 pm
As you may be aware, I’ve joined the Daring Baker Challenge, so once a month I’ll be posting the results of the super-secret challenge I’ve been working on.  Here’s what happened for December: The 2010 December Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Penny of Sweet Sadie’s Baking. She c...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Dec 20, 2010, 9:36 am
This holiday season has been much more exciting than usual in my house.  It’s our first Christmas being married.  It’s our first Christmas as homeowners.  Then our furnace turned on us on one of the coldest nights of the season… that made things really exciting. But I think what has made t...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Nov 27, 2010, 11:10 am
A few weeks ago, I mentioned I’d be participating in something called the Daring Baker Challenge once a month, starting this month.  Guess what?!  I did it! The 2010 November Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Simona of briciole. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make pasta fr...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Nov 23, 2010, 2:35 pm
Yes, there are still 7 days left in November.  That means there is still 1 week remaining in NaNoWriMo. But I’m conceding defeat today. I attribute my defeat to 2 factors, both of which contributed equally to my 2010 NaNoWriMo demise: The complete and total lack of real-life NaNoWriMo buddies ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Nov 5, 2010, 10:47 am
We have been home owners for a little over 4 months now.  We’ve learned a lot in that short amount of time.  Important things, like before you move into a new house, make sure you know where all the water and gas turn on/off switches are.  Oh, and if you don’t know what those look like, make ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Nov 1, 2010, 12:46 pm
… from me for the month of November: 1.  A few posts about NaNoWriMo.  I have noticed that these posts tend to be less popular, so I plan to keep the volume of my NaNo rambling to a minimum this year.  However, today IS November 1, so happy NaNoWriMo to all my writing buddies! 2.  A knitting...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Oct 10, 2010, 8:10 pm
I recently posted about my thoughts on trying to “get pregnant.” While this post is not really about all that, it is tangentially related… so if the following seems like TMI to you, remember that you have been warned.  (By the way, the TMI is totally worth it!) The following is an open lette...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Sep 21, 2010, 11:45 am
Today I looked at my calendar and had 2 thoughts: Holy crap, September has gone by really fast! It’s getting dangerously close to NaNoWriMo season!!! I can’t do much about the first one, but I am about to push my “NaNoWriMo-mode” button for sure.  I know I’ve discussed NaNoWriMo before, ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Aug 31, 2010, 11:16 am
Sometimes it takes me several weeks to grow the balls to write a post about what’s really been on my mind. This will be one such post. Most of the time, my silence on here can be attributed to me spending time working on things that take me far away from a computer.  Lately, though, my silence ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Aug 10, 2010, 11:56 am
If you had asked me 5 years ago if I’d ever consider baking my own bread, I would have laughed at you.  I would have laughed at you hard.  Like, milk coming out of my nose hard, if I wasn’t lactose intolerant and liked drinking milk. There is a reason I would have found your question so ridic...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Aug 5, 2010, 1:57 pm
A few readers have noticed my blogging drought of late, so I figured it was time to write about where I’ve been these last couple weeks! Other than working on the new house, I’ve picked up a couple of new interests… new time-consuming interests, I should say.  So the posting has taken a hit....
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Jul 15, 2010, 1:36 pm
The last few weeks have taught me that no matter how prepared you think you are for something, if the “something” is home ownership, you are NOT as prepared as you think you are. I have good friends who have owned homes for years.  They all warned us that it’s a lot of work.  We even heard ...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 27, 2010, 2:21 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a list of things I’d like to tell you all about, if only I had the time.  Today I’d like to tell you all about the #2 thing on that list: the weirdest gift I have ever received. Let me say this first, though: I am all for the concept of it being “the thought t...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 17, 2010, 11:39 am
I don’t cry. I know a lot of girls say that, but in my case it’s very, very true.  I especially don’t cry for HAPPY reasons.  Funerals, yes… weddings, no, if you get my drift. I’ve mentioned this about myself before (read about it here and here). Why do I bring this...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 14, 2010, 1:49 pm
Melissa is an awesome blogger.  She is so awesome, in fact, that I am borrowing a format she recently used on her blog for this post, because I have too many things I’d like to write about and not enough time to write about them all properly.  Hope you don’t mind, Melissa! So… h...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - May 5, 2010, 1:52 pm
I’ve been horrible about posting lately, and I’m sorry! Unfortunately, there’s a chance I will continue to be horrible about it for another week or so, because Alex and I made a big decision last week and it has created loads of extra work for us in this last month leading up the w...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 27, 2010, 4:05 pm
A few weeks ago I ranted a bit about how Alex and I were going to have to move right before the wedding.  Well, that has been changed, and now we don’t have to move until the week after we return from our honeymoon.  YAY for us!  Before we found this out, though, something happened that mad...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 21, 2010, 12:30 pm
My bachelorette party was this past weekend! I’ve been resistant to the idea of a traditional bachelorette… strippers, drinking until you can’t remember, etc… so I was curious to see what my bridesmaids would come up with instead. I knew the date of the party, but I was not a...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 20, 2010, 9:00 am
Not too long ago, I asked my readers to help me out with a relationship dilemma of sorts: do I cede territory in the kitchen to Alex from time to time, or don’t I?  The verdict was a resounding “let the man cook,” so last Thursday night I turned over my chef’s knife, in spit...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 15, 2010, 2:38 pm
So much has been going on the last couple of weeks, I almost completely forgot that Alex and I were scheduled for a meeting with our floral designer today to inspect our centerpiece mock-ups! They came out gorgeous – I couldn’t be happier with them, really. Check them out: Sorry for th...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Apr 8, 2010, 12:00 pm
I’ve been holding back posting what our wedding invitations actually look like because *some* people were upset at the thought that I might post them here before all our guests received them in the mail.  Judging by the steady trickle of response cards we’ve been getting in the mail lat...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Mar 30, 2010, 3:34 pm
I’m a control freak.  I don’t know if this has ever come up before here, but it’s true. My need to control things doesn’t usually cause major problems in my life.  I like to have things planned out, and I hate surprises, but most of the time it’s not so bad. At least...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Mar 23, 2010, 12:00 pm
The calendar that sits on my desk at work is the Forgotten English 2010 Calendar. I found today’s entry both entertaining and appropriate, so I’m sharing! March 23, 2010 bed-vow Definition: Marriage vow. – C.T. Onion’s Oxford Shakespeare Glossary, 1911 Andrew Waterman...
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limpetfan posted an article on The Table Has Shoes (and Other Ambiguities) - Mar 22, 2010, 9:00 am
Does anyone have a really fabulous recipe for lemonade? You see, life has just thrown an extra-large quantity of lemons at me, and I need to find some way to make something out of them to keep my sanity. As I sit typing this post, it is roughly 2 months and 2 weeks until Alex and I tie the knot. ...
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