I got an ipod for Christmas, and I’m crazy about it. It’s revolutionized the way I work around the house, the way I go grocery shopping, the way I stayed sane at the boring desk job, and best of all,…
Year of Pleasures #5
My Sirius satelite radio. I got it for Christmas last year at the same time – through an accident of planning and communication – that I got my ipod. At the time I thought it was ridiculous to lay out…
Year of Pleasures #4
A wonderful part of living in San Diego? Costco carries flats of Coke imported from Mexico. This means that they not only come in a bottle (everything should come in a bottle – it gets colder and tastes way better)…
Year of Pleasures #3
Ah, freshly made Dilly Bars, how I love you. Our local Dairy Queen seems to be having some issues. Their main freezer is broken so they can’t do any cakes (and oh man a dairy queen ice cream cake with…
Reining in the chaos
Now that we’ve finally, Finally, FINALLY, managed to finish up enough of the projects to pick all the protective paper up off the floor, I’m trying to claim control back over my life and surroundings. For my branch of OCD,…
Round 1 is done!
We did it. We finished the first batch of painting. We’re exhausted. I’ve spent the past few days just trying to clean everything up after the disaster we’ve been living in for the past three months. Now it’s finally to…
I’m the Guys
This house turned out to be way way more of a fixer upper than we had any idea. We thought we’d slap a coat of paint on the place and be done. Then there was two months of wallpaper removal,…
Year of Pleasures #2
I’m not a fan of most of our landscaping. I’m actually not a fan of a lot of Southern California landscaping, because so much of it consists exclusively of palm trees and birds of paradise. Our backyard right now is…
Torn between two lovers
We started reading Harry Potter on Saturday. We have a tradition of reading them out loud together, usually Bear reads while I work on one project or another. I can’t bear the thought of buying the book twice like a…
I finished something!
My studio is done. Well not really, but like 75% done. I just need to fuss it up with curtains and pictures on the wall, but I actually get to use it now. Please join me, won’t you? The color…