The Room is Winning

When we first looked at our house, I can remember thinking “Interesting. Well this living room is going to be a little hard to decorate, but we’ll figure it out.”  And then I thought no more about it. Oh, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. This room is totally winning, you guys, and [...]

Tomato Tomahto

One of the best things that happens in January is that I get to pick out the seeds for next year’s garden. I order my seeds from the Fedco catalog, because they’re not genetically modified or irradiated. I am far from a total crazy hippie, but I think a company irradiating seeds so you can’t [...]

More Money More Problems

I put this question on Twitter, but it’s sort of too complicated for Twitter so I thought I’d ask it here. Ok, so Mr. E and I have this credit card.  It is essentially maxed out, I think at any given time it has about $600 ish dollars clearance on it.  So let’s say the [...]

Book Review: The Fault In Our Stars

 So The Fault In Our Stars is the newest book by John Green, who is super famous on the internet for various reasons and a big deal in YA circles.    He wrote Looking for Alaska, which won the Printz award that year.  I was dubious about The Fault In Our Stars simply because Looking [...]

What’s For Dinner (This Week)

1. turkey kefta and grilled minted zucchini 2. greek chicken pitas 3. thai green curry coconut shrimp (with brown rice) 4. spinach stuffed shells (also making for the neighbors who just had a baby). 5. chicken breasts, roasted sunchokes, spinach salad (from my garden, woo hoo!) 6. corn and bacon chowder 7. onion pizza with ricotta [...]

The Story of Us

When I was 10 years old, my parents got divorced.  For a long time, they lived in the same city, Portland, OR, where I grew up, and I’d spend one week with my dad and one week with my mom.  One week off and one week on, as they say. The summer after my freshman [...]

The Four Tubs

So my mother was just here.  It was actually a really nice visit.  I think everyone had a very nice time. Pretty much the only thing she did that annoyed me was to accuse me of being a picky eater over and over and over again, and it just annoyed the ever living crap out [...]

Books I Read In December

162.  The Night Circus.  I wanted to like this, I really did, but OH MY LORD did it take me forever to read. It just wasn’t one of those  books that drew me back to it, and I kept having to make myself read it. I’d say it was just too weird for me, but [...]

My Reasons

It makes absolutely no sense for us to have another baby. (Not pregnant!) We have a two bedroom house. We  don’t have a big enough car.  I’m older and fatter.  I’d have to go off my crazy pills because you can’t take P@xil while you’re pregnant, and I still have PTSD from the morning sickness [...]

I Never Thought I’d See the Day When Too Many Shoes Would Be A Problem

So my mom and my step father were in town for five days, and I have learned the hard way never to blog when family is visiting, so that’s where I was.  In other news, my mom threatened to call CPS on me, due to the state of my car, at least 14 times.  On [...]