I Don’t Know How He Does It

While we were all in Chicago for the Blathering, the always and ever amazing Phillip Cheung wrote Maggie an adorable surprise post on her blog, with lots of “I don’t know how she does it’s” and we all gathered round and read it and talked about wonderful it was. I’m about two minutes away from [...]

I Broke My Shopping Ban to Buy This $2.50 Hat at Target. It was Totally Worth It.

First Quarter Reading List 2011

I have been a reading machine this quarter!  It’s too bad so many of these books were unremarkable, but I suppose that’s the nature of the beast.  This, by the way, is why I don’t feel bad for getting all my books from the library.  I’d like to own about two of these books, out [...]

Got Wood?

1.  We got a new (to us)  gas stove.  I counted on my fingers last night and I realized that it has been ELEVEN YEARS since I last lived in a house with a gas stove.  Whoever said that things can’t make you happy clearly has never experienced the joy in my heart that I [...]

I Think I Figured Out Where She Got that Crazy Hair

To Buy or Not To Buy

I find inaction frustrating. I am a do-er, not a sit stiller.  NOT eating food to lose weight or NOT spending money to build up my savings account just annoys me to no end, but lately the budget has gone off the rails around here.  Drawers are bursting with clothes and I have a terrible [...]

I Am Aware That This is Ridiculous, But I Have Been Waiting for This Moment for All My Life

Stinky

I am ripping up the (godawful) laminate floors that cover my entire house (there’s hardwood underneath, but it’s…troubled).  As soon as the laminate comes up, the smell is just unbelievably bad.  It smells like an unholy mixture of cat urine and feet.  Anyone have any suggestions?  I ‘d steam mop it but the floors are [...]

I Don’t Look Good In Green

Ok, so first of all, you know should that I HAAAAAAAATE St. Patrick’s Day.  It is just not for me. I read a quote last weekend in the New York Times Book Review which I had to cut out and stick in my day planner because it cut right to the chase of who I [...]

Some Outfits You Just Have to Take Pictures Of