Bed ahead

Help! One year, six months later and we are finally … decorating our master bedroom! Getting a new bed and, most importantly, a new mattress. Putting life onto the walls. If we’re feeling extra-productive, we might even vacuum. I’ve actually refused to sleep in our bedroom for about the past week. It’s a horrible, horrible [...]

My, how things have changed

On March 28, 2006, life slowly ticked by whilst I was “Living Alone”: You can leave two half-full or half-empty glasses of water sitting on your wooden dinner tray. You don’t have enough money to buy a dining table, so you use wooden dinner trays, but you have to sit on pillows when you use [...]

Blessed be the couch

Yay, what a lovely couch! I mean, what a really bad, blurry photo, and what unpleasant expressions they are wearing. … And hasn’t your dog’s slobbery bandana been hanging on that doorknob since, oh, Easter?   Yes, to all those things! But, all together now: Yay, what a lovely new couch that isn’t all saggy [...]

Sock it to me

Kyle and I are ALWAYS in a hurry, mainly because his sense of time is like my sense of direction, except worse. I can find my way around if a map’s handy, but Kyle apparently never learned how to tell time. I credit this deficiency to two factors: 1. He used to simultaneously play and [...]

To have and to hold

Parking three blocks from my downtown workplace has many cons and only three pros: I don’t have to pay the $30 a month to park in the lot across from my workplace, I get some exercise (you know how they say to take the stairs instead of the elevator? this walk is my justification for [...]