Top tip: How to clean your keyboard in under a minute!

One day I realized how disgusting my iMac keyboard had gotten after 3 years of use.  In the back of my mind, I thought I’d seen something online about cleaning keyboards with Magic Erasers.  (Yep, these guys.  I use them for tons of random cleaning stuff.)  

So I tried one, gingerly, on my keyboard, and it totally did the trick!  Be careful of getting the little foam bits down between the keys, and I used my eraser new out of the package and totally dry (water + electronics = bad), and was gentle on the keys around where the letters are printed.  But it looks 100% better and I’m quite happy with the results.

Hooray much cleaner keyboard!  And hooray quick cleaning things!

Catching up! Here’s what we did in November

November was quite a month.  We were busy every single weekend.

First, Ryan’s dad came to visit us.  

He also made us an insane blackberry pie and taught me all about pie making.

Fall in Yosemite National Park (part 3)

Day 3, our last day at the park.

We started the day with scrambled chorizo and eggs, beans, tortillas, and plantains.  Mmm

Fall in Yosemite National Park (part 2)

Day 2 in Yosemite!

On our drive in.

Fall in Yosemite National Park (part 1)

Snow in Yosemite: top – summer 2009; bottom – fall 2013

Another significant 2013 event missing from this blog is our trip to Yosemite in the fall.  We had gone briefly when we first drove Ryan’s car across the country from Georgia in the summer of 2009, but it was a quick drive through, and we wanted to explore more thoroughly.  

Catching up! Here’s what we did in October

October was more low key.  We did get out a bit though.

Ryan presented at a Chemistry Symposium at work.  He looked fancy.  He thinks he looks bored/mean in this picture.  I disagree.

Also to note: he wore his birthday Clarks, NOT his crappy destroyed Brooks.  Fashion win.

I fancied up, too, and joined him for the awards dinner that night.

Catching up! Here’s what we did in September

Since I posted nothing in September or October (curse our busy schedules and that awful roach disaster!), I’m playing a bit of catch up today (hooray, days off!)

Christmas Essentials: Making Rugelach

When I was growing up, rugelach were just another kind of cookie my mum made for Christmas.  I didn’t realize until I was older that they’re Jewish, not traditional Christmas cookies.  We always had cut out sugar cookies, fudge, rum balls, truffles, and rugelach.  My mum learned the recipe from her jewish college roommate’s professional chef mother, and they’re delicious!  Not overly sweet, but always some of the first cookies to go, a batch never lasted more than a few days.