Rebecca - ProfilesArchive

About Me

As Spouse will vouch, I'm fairly neurotic with my well-know affinity to put all things into a matrix of some sort, but I package it behind a semi-normal front. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to bake (did I mention I love to bake?) and share my goodies with anyone who will eat them. I'm a lead-foot Volvo wagon driver who loves authentic New Mexican cuisine and a good Thai curry. I also love to spoil my Niecelette, the most precious 3-year-old I know. I talk to my dog like she's a person and love my front-loading washing machine that I won from a radio contest.

My Interests

Baking, ballet, reading, movies, cleaning, organizing, backpacking, camping, cinema, wine, hanging with Spouse + The Pooch

I'd like to meet:

Cool people that the cool people I know know.

Music:

Old Crow Medicine Show, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kelly Clarkson, Fleetwood Mac, Dixie Chicks, Spymob, Black Eyed Peas, most anything 80s, Dave Matthews Band, Eleven Hundred Springs

Movies:

The Piano, Better off Dead, Office Space, Tommy Boy, Chicago, Sleepless in Seattle, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Bend it Like Beckham, Harry Potter Series, Clueless, The Company, Bridget Jones' Diary, The Birdcage, Notting Hill, The Graduate, Legally Blonde

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Scrubs, Chappelle's Show, most anything on Food Network

Books:

White Oleander, The Lovely Bones, Perfect, Baking Illustrated, Harry Potter series, The Handmaid's Tale, The Red Tent, AP Style Guide

Heroes:

Grandma Euna, Martha Stewart, The Container Store

My Blog

Why I love Space Bags

So I finally got myself in gear and packed away the winter clothes. Naturally, this small task quickly snowballed into an all-consuming multi-hour chore that ended with me vacuuming the baseboards of ...
Posted by Rebecca on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:17:00 PST

Friday Night Lights in Denton

This past Friday night Spouse, pooch and I all braved the rush hour traffic on northbound I-35E (I heart the HOV lane) to spend an evening in Denton. We received word that national conglomerates...
Posted by Rebecca on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:24:00 PST

Zucchini Bread

This has been a weekend for baking. Whipped up a batch of One-Bowl brownies earlier this morning and then had a craving for zucchini bread. It is summer after all -- peak season for Z. Thanks to DK, ...
Posted by Rebecca on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:53:00 PST

Pot is to kettle as OCD is to Rebecca

I've always been one to have quirks. My friends are kind enough to call them endearing and put up with them. Little things like having to eat small items in pairs (M&M's, Skittles, the likes); alw...
Posted by Rebecca on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:30:00 PST

The Volvo Break-In

I've never denied the fact that we live in the hood. But, for the 4.5 years that we've lived in said hood the crackheads, migrant workers and fellow hood-dwellers have left well enough alone and we've...
Posted by Rebecca on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:05:00 PST

The Endless Glass 'o Red Wine

So I went to a party/shower for some friends on Saturday night. Nothing out of the ordinary. Italian feast with Stacy's amazingly perfect spaghetti and lasagna. What goes better with Italian fare than...
Posted by Rebecca on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:15:00 PST

Friday Freedom

Since entering the working world I have come to live for the weekends. Those two precious days of total freedom from the daily grind. Time to do whatever I want. Be on the computer if I want to. Eat l...
Posted by Rebecca on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:58:00 PST

Men and T-Shirts

Riddle me this: Why do men have so many t-shirts? Case and point. Last night I'm hanging up spouse's laundry and a quick count of just the gray t-shirts = 13. This says nothing of the other rainb...
Posted by Rebecca on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:21:00 PST

One Bowl Brownies

So last night my dear friend DK had me over to the pink loft so I could escape the sauna that is my apartment during the summer. We had spent the better half of our afternoon productivity debating nam...
Posted by Rebecca on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:44:00 PST