Did you guys know that things break on houses? It’s absolutely true. But did you know that they all conspire to break at the same damned time? Also completely true. Case in point: Casa Bix tried to pretty much mutiny over the past several weeks. We were feeling pretty good about ourselves, actually, so we [...]
One of the side benefits of my new (well, six months old) job is that the hour or so that I used to spend commuting to and from the office is the make or break hour for planning ambitious meals. Not that we’ve been ambitious, mind you, but we certainly do more eating at home [...]
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Jane whined about how no one was updating their blogs and also, she had cancer, so yeah. Christmas was kind of ridiculous, both laid back and oddly stressful. I got walloped with some kind of crazy mega cold mid-morning on Christmas Day. I made it to my mother’s house, where I sat on the couch, [...]
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
We have one big holiday affair in my local social group: a heady bacchanal in a distant McMansion community where our friend stuffs us with meats and liquors until we beg for mercy. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he wanted to harvest our livers. Imagine a party where the frenched lamb chops appetizers [...]
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
I made a discovery recently that makes me question how I live my life. I recognize that I have a clothing problem, that I treat fashion with the same zeal that I treat all things wonderful: more more more nom nom nom. I have regular purgings and trend annihilation (for instance, those stupid convertible bras? [...]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Did you enter my photography giveaway yet? You get two chances to win a free print from my Etsy shop! Details here! I’ve been a bundle of nesting energy as the busy season smacks me straight in the face. On top of the familial demands, I have been poring over home decor blogs and food [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
I had intended to update to get that morose piece of misery off the top of the page, but uh, there’s nothing really changing on that front. So in lieu of a comprehensible narrative, some bullet points: My sister is in India for a month. She got off work today and was told to stay [...]
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Monday, September 13, 2010
A few years ago, Esteban and Scotty Boom Boom experienced a bit of an obstacle to their home brew hobbying: there was a hops shortage. Hops! Why wasn’t this a major headline in the news as the banks were crumbling? Think of the beer, people! The BEER! They solved it, much in the way of [...]
On Saturday morning, I woke up early for the farmer’s market and gave Esteban a reprieve, since he had been out playing his Dork games until the wee hours. I grabbed the dog and hit the farmer’s market. My grandmother asked me to pick her up three things: eggs, a tomato and a beef roast. [...]
I am SO lucky that I actually buckled down and made an appointment for my spring personal cleaning, as oh my god, the moratorium on shaving my legs was totally going to end this weekend. It happened when I was applying lotion post-shower. I looked down and instead of a little golden aura of follicular [...]
