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Oh and my husband makes huge batches of breakfast burritos and freezes them. Just microwave and you are out the door! Very delicious!

I had a non-functional fireplace in our Boston apartment and yeah, it made me furious! I wanted a fire! I never did anything interesting with it though.
I own a house now and it doesn't have any fireplace/heart/stove or other source of heat and it drives me bonkers. Thinking of putting in a pellet stove. There's just something about a fire that says home!

The Badonkadonk Land Cruiser is another classic:
http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

*love kale. Not live.

In Switzerland all stores are closed Sundays, so Saturdays are a special kind of hell at Ikea. My trick is to go alone on a Saturday night, after we put the kid to bed, about an hour or so before closing (they close at 9:00pm). The store is practically empty, I never have a line at the checkout, and there's plenty of parking. If I have to bring the kid, we go at dinnertime during the week, and eat first and then shop. My husband usually arrives at some point to help with things. It's also very quiet then!

I don't care for it much although its popular where I live in Switzerland. There are many sweet varieties eaten like yogurts. I used to use it (unflavored) as a sour cream replacement, until I found actual sour cream. Quarkkuchen is the german answer to cheesecake, and I cannot say I am a fan. I have yet to find a way to use this, as I prefer Philadelphia spread or yogurt or sour cream to quark.

Toddlers are easy to please. Mine loved coloring on cardboard boxes, "going to the store" with her tiny shopping cart, using the magnadoodle/aqua doodle, painting on her easel, lining up her Little People, using stacking boxes, doing animal shape puzzles... Jeez and if I ran out if stuff to do I gave her a bowl of dried beans and a few boxes to pour them into... Heehee... :)

I don't eat chicken but I MUST buy this!!

The heavy cream where I am in Europe is almost always UHT, shelf stable, but is kept in the refrigerated section--- I'm told it's because that's where people are used to finding it. In contrast the coffee cream is not refrigerated. And the are nearly the same product, so --
Anyhow I keep a couple small boxes in the fridge since they keep quite a while and I always forget that I need heavy cream! (Same with coconut milk. It's some kind of mental block, dunno!) Anyhow, they are useful!!

When our Culver City/Palms (L.A.) 2 bedroom condo where the rent was $1300, was put on the market for 350,000, we knew that was going to be no g-dmn way we would ever, ever be able to buy a place in L.A. (one where we wouldn't have to spend 2+ hrs commuting to our West Side jobs). And we didn't want to pay rent for the rest of our lives. We loved living in L.A. and we had 7 great years, but we knew then that we had to go. Two years later we had moved on. We still have friends there, some still renting and others owning out in a suburb somewhere. They seem happy, but for us it was a good decision.