After looking at the same stale notes for months, today I decided to start afresh and began to erase my whiteboard. But because the dry erase ink had been left to sit for so long, it had actually begun to stain the whiteboard. The eraser only took off the top layer, leaving behind almost everything I wanted to remove. I pulled out the “mild formula dry erase board cleaner” that came with the dry erase markers. That took off another twenty percent of the ink but I was still left with words and big smudges. I have this thing about whiteboards: either they should be full of random things I have jotted down or they should be pristine white.
Three more rounds of the mild dry erase board cleaner did nothing to improve the situation. The solution? Nail polish remover. Yes, today is a great day to be a girl. And my white board is clean to boot.
Update: In addition to nail polish remover, alcohol and even white vinegar work as well. And also, nail polish remover is great for removing the gunky sticker messes (which I am happy to know because there is very little that I hate more than those price stickers that won’t come off). — Thanks to all who shared their tips with me.
Tagged as: cleaning, dry erase marker, nail polish remover, whiteboard
Welcome to my tea shelf. This is the place where teas go to die… or at least be forgotten. Jasmine, mint, detox, chai, rooibos, etc, etc. I love tea. I drink at least one cup most every day. And now that it is cooling off I drink it more often, sometimes just to warm my hands.
But I am stuck in a rut. I have countless options (well, I don’t want to count them) and yet I always go for the Irish/English breakfast teas (with a little milk and sugar). This morning I was about to reach for my usual “rut” tea when I stopped to look more closely at the tea graveyard. I felt a twinge of guilt. I put the breakfast tea back on the shelf and grabbed the masala chai instead.
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Tagged as: chai, drinks, tea
Hello, my name is Patricia and I’m a television junkie. Though I prefer to think that I’m a recovering TV junkie… well, I was recovering until last week. [Continue reading...]
Tagged as: glee, tv
Dan and I started getting a box of fruits and vegetables through a CSA about two months ago. They offer a few different kinds and sizes of boxes. We get what they call their “regular” box which gets a good mix of fruits and vegetables of all types. I wanted to try the “regular” box because it would challenge us not only to eat vegetables we might not normally buy but also learn to cook them (there is also the “mostly fruit” box that tends to be the easier to eat out of hand fruits and vegetables… more tomatoes and fewer greens for example). Our boxes have included things like swiss chard, mushrooms, and beets. It’s not that I dislike any of these things, they just aren’t things I think of when at the farmers’ market or grocery store. Mushrooms have become a new favorite for us since the CSA forced us to do something with a bag of creminis.
Anyway, to make a long story short, we’ve gotten beets in two of the last four boxes. The first time, I just roasted them and we ate them in salads. But this time I wanted to try something different. You know what? The internet is an amazing place. Between general searches for beets and light questioning on twitter, here are the beet recipes I have collected so far…
I’m sure I could dig up more recipes for the list, but this is already an overwhelming array of options. I’m still not sure what to do with the beets, though I am leaning toward pickling… What do you think? Do you have any favorite beet recipes?
Tagged as: beets
Like most of us, Raven doesn’t like being told she needs to think outside the box. Then again, sometimes she takes things too literally…
Tagged as: cats
