Meglet Rambles On

I received this old classic in my email the other day. Being a PNWer (Pacific Northwester) these rang pretty true (although I don’t own a mountain bike or eat Chinese food.)

The PACIFIC NORTHWEST According To Jeff Foxworthy.
1. You know the state flower (Mildew)
2. You feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper [...]

After spending the last few weekends cleaning up some of the main living areas, the latest project was to finish the new upstairs linen closet, and get rid of all of the stuff I decided not to keep. The old “linen closet” was really a set of narrow cupboards at the end of the upstairs [...]

Is a sign of a disordered mind. Or something. Which means this just confirms what everyone already knew anyway:

Clean Desk, originally uploaded by Meghan A.

Click on the picture to go to Flickr and view notes about the items on the desk.

While I’m sure most people spent this weekend out in the sun barbecuing and setting off fireworks, I took advantage of the long weekend to do some long overdue cleaning. Between the fish tank moving project, 2 weeks of vacation and the un-unpacking that resulted, and my general habit of accumulating “stuff” my room had [...]

Because I was a little bit bored, and because I wanted pictures of the chicken anyway for my recipe software, I present tonight’s dinner:

Lemon Pepper Chicken, rice with lemon butter sauce, and salad with feta and green olives.

When I moved the desk and fish tanks around a couple months ago, I inadvertently got rid of Peanut’s favorite sleeping spot, burrowed down into the pillows stuffed between the end of the couch and the CD shelves. A few weeks ago, I put a shelf back in that spot, with a small cat pad [...]

Now that summer is here, it’s time to put in a window fan to counteract the extra heat and humidity from my computers and fish tanks. Since the fan I used last year was old, dirty, and noisy, I went looking for a new one. I found the Bionaire BW2300 fan on Amazon. Customer reviews [...]

The camera is back, the fishtanks are clean, the truck is getting a checkup, and next Sunday, I’m hitting the road for a 10-day road trip.
I’ll start in Portland for a couple days of playing tourist, then head over to Missoula, MT for more wandering fun and helping friends out with moving. Total estimated miles: [...]

Warning: long, geeky wall of text ahead!
 
Going into the holiday weekend, I had “To-Do” list that just had a couple big items on it. Nothing outrageously insane, just some things I wanted to get done since I had an extra day off work.

Rebuild the 46 gallon bow-front fish tank and move the Cherry Barbs [...]

Between work, life, and sprained ankles, I haven’t had as much time to put into my fish tanks lately as I usually do. So this weekend, I’ve decided it’s time for some serious maintenance.
To start the weekend, I took the 6 Congo Tetras that lived in the 46 gallon bowfront tank back to the store. [...]