Archive for August, 2010

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Lunch Truck Fail


2010
08.18

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As an architect, I have been to many job sites, some of which have the “lunch-truck” from some local catering place that drives from job site to job site, offering a wide variety of hot and cold foods for working folk.  I will admit that I have never eaten from one of the lunch trucks, but I have been tempted.  Not any more.   I decided to eat out the other day and went to Taco Bell (don’t ask why, self torture maybe?) and this is what I saw:

A lunch truck whose driver would rather pay to eat crap from the drive through than to eat for free from their own offerings....

Note to self – NEVER, EVER eat from this lunch truck!



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Kitchen Organization – for cheap


2010
08.16

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How many of you moved into your house, threw your pots and pans, silverware, and dishes into whichever cabinet was nearest, and have kept them there since?  I have had reorganizing my kitchen on the “to-do” list for almost three years. With a new baby on the way, I started to realize there was just no way we could get another kid’s worth of food/formula/etc into the kitchen without it exploding!  So it was time to do SOMETHING… (more…)



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Ikea – Oh how I love thee


2010
08.13

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For those of you who have been to my home, you know the kitchen was remodeled prior to us moving in and that all I’ve had to do so far was add accessories (ice maker, garbage disposal, handles on the cabinets). Oh, and paint over the old ugly green walls. And replace two windows over the sink. And put in new blinds. That’s it, really. Even with all this work, it was nice, but I wasn’t really enthralled with it. The granite counters and slate floor are nice, but it didn’t function the way I needed it to and I never had enough storage. So I decided I needed a floor to ceiling pantry along the back wall!

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