So A is finally finally FINALLY back from his 11 day business trip to Italy and is currently snoozing peacefully beside me on the couch (jetlag can be a merciless force when she wants to be). Our first full day back together was spent sleeping in, eating banana cupcakes for breakfast, antique shopping, and having [...]
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Deck: before and after.
One thing I never expected about buying a house was the expectation from others that we would also buy flowers, when the time was right. Have you ever noticed the flower culture out in the ‘burbs? Because it can be brutal. It’s very “oh your flowers look…. nice. What are you using on them? I [...]
Well, well.
We’re back from a wonderful weekend in the Crescent City by the river. It’s amazing how tacking on one extra day to your weekend trip can make it feel like it stretched on for almost a week. We came home in the wee hours to a dark house and a confused cat and it seemed [...]
The spirit.
While we were home at Thanksgiving, my parents loaded us up with lots of stuff to drive back up to Boston, including this – the fake Christmas tree we’ve had since I was kid (they’ve been getting a real tree for the past few years). Having no ornaments, I strung it up with white lights [...]
Monday babble.
I woke up this morning to an email from my uncle who lives in New Orleans with a photo of an oyster po-boy from the absolute best po-boy shop in the world (that I know of anyways) (Bobby’s in Harahan), which I’m pretty sure constitutes cruelty to family members and is punishable by law at [...]
What’s for dinner: Chicken and dumplings.
My idea of a perfect Sunday involves sleeping in (but not too late), breakfast in my pajamas while browsing the Internet for dinner recipes, grocery shopping (preferrably at multiple stores but that’s not always possible), and then spending the rest of the day cooking, blogging, and getting ready for the week. Then, if all goes [...]
Queen size me.
Today is going to be a crazy day so I’m not making any big efforts here. In fact the only reason you’re about to get a glimpse into the minutiae of my weekend is because it’s NaBloPoMo and I HAVE TO. So, we’re waking up early this morning to go to Home Depot and get [...]
On making dents. The good kind.
I was planning a whole post for tonight about the move. About how stressful it can be, the way it forces you to take stock of your entire life. And about how rewarding it can be, how unbelievably warm and comforting it can be to set up your new house and by extension, your new [...]
So long, Coolidge Corner.
I was one of the lucky ones who had today, Columbus Day, off. But instead of going apple picking like I’d hoped (plans fell through) I ended up stuck at home with a mountain of things to take care of. You see, we’re moving in a couple weeks. This time it’s really happening. And so [...]
On umbrellas and aging.
The sun has been hopping in and out of the clouds so much today, like some kind of bratty kid hyped up on sugar playing hide-and-go-seek and I feel like the grumpy old granny who’s babysitting him thinking, “You know kid, I wish you’d find some really good, remote hiding place so I can enjoy [...]
