My going-out getup got out again last weekend. It made it to dinner and a show! Nate treated the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team to a night at the local theater to see Becoming Dr. Ruth, a 90-minute performance without intermission, based on the life of sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer. I was a little… Continue reading To the Theater!
Wild Night Out with the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team
The wildest thing I want to do on a Friday night is hurl myself sideways into the couch, whilst wielding the world’s most outrageous pizza. In fact, that’s what I want to do every night. However, there was a time in college when I would have literally stayed out all night dancing. During a study-abroad… Continue reading Wild Night Out with the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team
XOXO with Sprinkles on Top
Leave a trail of broken garbage disposals, hearts…and cookie presses. That’s the wisdom I received from my grandmother—wisdom for living my best life. Okay, so my grandmother said no such thing. But that’s the grandmotherly advice I’d give if I were to ever give grandmotherly advice: break every garbage disposal and cookie press in the… Continue reading XOXO with Sprinkles on Top
Emergency Alert: These Spiced Beef Pockets Are Pretty Good
A terrifying earthquake “bed-box” video surfaced on my social media channels. A computer-generated woman, sound asleep, is suddenly swallowed by her own bed as a mechanism of defense against an earthquake. The vibrations have triggered her bed to “eat” her and stuff her (safely) inside a steel frame box, with fireproof wrapping, and snacks. (You… Continue reading Emergency Alert: These Spiced Beef Pockets Are Pretty Good
Keeping the Lid on Things: New Storage Solution
Hell is a kitchen cabinet oozing with nearly melted, dented, stained (and smelly) plastic containers that have no lids. I created this hell myself, in several fits of organizational epiphanies, and all was not well. I have shrieked in agony, “Can’t I just bleepin’ put some sauce in something that hasn’t imploded?” And then, on… Continue reading Keeping the Lid on Things: New Storage Solution
You Say Potato, I Say Snack Potato
If a pack of potatoes eyes you from across the store, stay cool. Everything will be okay. It’s when they can’t look you in the eyes—that’s when you steer clear. However, I’ve never met a potato I haven’t found appealing, and on Tuesday night, when Nate and I did some midweek shopping, I decided a… Continue reading You Say Potato, I Say Snack Potato
Raise the Bar: Chocolate Tasting
Don a lampshade and prepare to be the life of the next chocolate-tasting party. The Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks team has some tips for you—none that we’ve actually tried ourselves, but Ghirardelli recommends them, and that’s good enough for us—to try later. If you happen to have a bunch of good-quality chocolate lying around, now’s… Continue reading Raise the Bar: Chocolate Tasting
Avalanche of Home Repairs
Screeching and other unsettling noises shook the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Headquarters yesterday. No, I was not baking a pie. And no, the house was not temporarily besieged by ghosts (that I know of). Instead, we had three “blizzards” of home repairs and improvements converging at once. First, on the coldest day of the year… Continue reading Avalanche of Home Repairs
New Year, New Air: Portable Air Purifier
Hoping to create cool blasts of mountain-fresh air, while my hair swirls in a breeze of music-video slow-motion effect—I requested a portable air purifier for Christmas. And I got one, which I promptly took to work to prevent sudden sneeze attacks. While it won’t produce super-model, swoon-worthy gusts of wind for photo shoots, it will… Continue reading New Year, New Air: Portable Air Purifier
A Roaring Good Time: 2023 in Review
Bear sightings increased by 100% this year, which was not a goal the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team expected to set, but we hit it! One or two bears wandered into our neighborhood this fall and continued to wander around other neighborhoods, parks, and the Safeway lot. (See the picture below, which someone from our… Continue reading A Roaring Good Time: 2023 in Review
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