My slow-cooker carnitas are:

Rub a pork putt with whatever carnitas-type spices you like (chili powder, cumin, salt, anything else that strikes your fancy), let sit overnight in the fridge.

Put the pork butt in the crock pot, dump a jar of salsa verde over it. Cook forever. (8+ hours)

Before serving, crank up the broiler on high. Pull the pork butt and spread it out on a sheet pan. Put it under the boiler and let it get crispy. NOMS.

Survived Dylan's G&T testing this afternoon. Feel like I'm going to need a few G&Ts to get through a snowed-in weekend with these kids.

Somehow I let Dylan talk me into putting in Phantom Menace. I knew it was bad, but I'd honestly blocked out just how bad.

Busy day here so far. I have an internet connection, a new television system I need to figure out, a working refrigerator (-t and Juliana, it fit!), a washing machine that was installed, a dryer that wasn't but will hopefully be soon, the gardener came and mowed my lawn, and the alarm company is making a second attempt at installing the security system. Once that is done, I need to make a grocery store run, but after that, I don't think I am doing anything, except maybe a little unpacking.

Yay! And I think all of us who have moved understand that the internet is the most important.

You have a gardener, Lee! NICE!

Thanks for passing on the news about Stephanie, amych. I've been thinking about her.

I did go out to a yoga class and picked up some pants I had hemmed but, man, am I lazy today! I should at least go take a shower, I guess.

Hooray for the fridge that fits! I take it the washer and dryer fit okay, also? And which room is Dita's?

Thank you for earworming me with the Michelob jingle, Erin!

It's icy here and my kids are watching bad anime cartoons. Blah.

I take it the washer and dryer fit okay, also?

They do! They couldn't install the dryer fully, but Martin's business partner is going to take care of that.

Alarm system is place, even though it is currently deactivated.

I think I am going to eat lunch and then nap and then maybe unpack a little.

And which room is Dita's?

The small bedroom in back, which is going to be my work room.

An ecologically-minded teenager on my television just claimed that tap water is "cleaner and healthier for you than store-bought water."

Isn't that...lies?

(He followed it up with "Also, it's a lot cheaper." Which is not lies.)

Yay moved in Lee!

I don't understand why I have been super super sleepy the past couple days. I've been getting plenty of sleep, but when the alarm went off this morning, I reset it three times! And I was kind of expecting I'd wake up before the alarm, since I set it for very late, and until the past couple days I'd been waking up pretty early. Weird.

Went and did my free trainer session that came with joining the new gym...got suckered into buying a whole bunch of trainer sessions, but am not going to start them for a few weeks.

I need to run some errands now that the snow has mostly melted (donate big pile of clothes to Goodwill, take things to the dry cleaner, get pants hemmed, there was something I was going to buy at the mall but I can't remember what, get a pedicure?). But I also need to clean the house. Roommate gets home later today, and it's a pit in here (granted, a little bit her fault, but mostly mine)