Not Working

I’m not even sure if I should be talking about this, really, since I haven’t exactly figured out how to say what’s on my mind and I am probably going to horribly offend someone (unintentionally), but this is what I have been thinking about  so that’s what you get.
Anyway, yesterday Mr. E and I were [...]

Pardon My French…

but HOLY SHIT we are going to AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tickets are booked and everything.
Thanks to an email I still haven’t written back to from Kristin, last night I sat down at the old lap top and just casually started punching in destinations – SFO to Thailand, SFO to Paris, SFO to Greece, SFO to Hong Kong, which [...]

Seven

1.That thing on my dining room table that has all of you so terrified is a carved wooden elephant head that my best friends mom got me in Thailand.  Actually it’s a pretty hilarious story because Sara’s mom knows that I love elephants and I collect them so she brought it back for me and [...]

You Be The Judge

So tell me, oh wise and powerful internet, did I just paint my dining room purple?

Or can I tell myself it’s greige and move on?

But seriously, how hawt do those white flowers look against my new purple walls!?

PS Please ignore my filthy kitchen, my ghetto back door, and those weird blotches the chandelier makes on [...]

Housekeeping

It has been a little over a year since we closed on our house.  I can still remember in the midst of all the loan wrangling and frenzied phone calls and camping out at the Ramada Inn, driving through our neighborhood at dusk, sprinklers going, streetlights just coming on, the clean wide streets, the peacefulness, [...]

Grimace

So what’s up with you all lately?
I probably shouldn’t admit this but I am totally only writing this because I am supah bored right now and I haven’t gotten any good email in ages and I am hoping someone leaves me some comments so I at least have SOMETHING to read as to be truthful [...]

Parental Warning

When we packed for our trip to Antarctica Northern Michigan, we brought all the Netflix movies we had lying around the house because I thought maybe we’d have some down time with my in laws and also I had a moment of temporary insanity or maybe a brain spasm where I imagined I’d bring my [...]

Saucy

Remember my itty bitty tomato plants?
Not so itty bitty anymore, are they?

Turns out unbeknown to me I planted some kind of crazy heirloom famous for its low yield and late maturation (Brandywine), so god knows if we’ll even get any tomatoes, but the plants themselves seem to be going great gang busters.
Of course I have [...]

Tastes Like Burning

Now that I’m done making wedding programs I can finally get back to obsessing over house projects.  Right now I’m trying to undo the “improvements” that the house flippers made to our living room fireplace.
Before our realtor showed us our house, she mentioned that it had been rehabbed but that there might be a few [...]

The World is My Oyster

So you’ve probably noticed that as soon as the economy tanked, everyone started talking about how cheap it is to travel now, and how if you’re ever going to travel now is the time to do it, how the airlines are practically giving away tickets to Spain for free, OMG if you are ever going [...]