My desk at home is in a closet off the side of our living room. We built a shelf over it for storage, which the cat loves. For months after we built it, she’d stare up at it and meow. It’s too high to jump to by herself, which is a source of unending frustration…
Anthropologie is having a members’ sale this weekend, offering their usual, whopping 20% off. I got the email, so I went to the site, despite our love-hate relationship. I haven’t been to Anthrobougierie in a while, for a couple of reasons – one of which is that I know too much. I’ve read the backgrounders,…
Alright team: a confession. I’m trying to lose some weight. Not a lot – just enough to help me trim down my half-marathon running time. I’ve run a few, and I’d like my time to be a bit faster. So this year my training plan includes lifting weights and losing some weight. Which means calorie…
Ah! My weekly recaps have become “biweekly” recaps! And it’s not because I haven’t been reading cool stuff – if anything, I’ve been reading so much it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a selection – some are older than others. I’ve never heard the phrase “Zombie Economy” before, but it sounds devastating. And, at the…
The other weekend, we watched 4 movies, more-or-less in a row. We watched Room and Creed, both of which I liked – despite the fair amount of rape in Room, and that Creed caused us to revisit one of our biggest marital disagreements. (In a nutshell: how rigged is fighting? Me: “All of it”; Q: “You…
When I blogged before, I had a personal finance blog. I blogged under a pseudonym, because I was talking about really personal stuff. In fact, it got so personal, I stopped. I had a hard time navigating the line between “honest” and “harsh”. It was one thing to poke fun at my sister’s occasional scrapbooking expenses…
A little while ago, when a friend mentioned that she and her husband, both animal-lovers, had taken the vegetarian plunge, I thought: “Yeah, it’s time.” I’ve been on the fence about going vegetarian for years. Q is firmly in the: “no way” camp: we don’t eat a lot of meat anyway (maybe only a couple…
When I was younger, I thought I wanted to work in book publishing. A lot of people want to work in book publishing, so the pay isn’t so great. I knew that going in. It’s also something you need an education for; I knew that going in, too. After I finished my degree, I worked…
Q and one of his friends have a ritual: they watch Walking Dead together. Because we’ve been busy these past couple of weeks, Q’s missed the ritual, so he sat down to watch the most recent two episodes with me. I hadn’t known what I was missing. Nothing. Me: “What is this? It looks like it…
Something people don’t tell you about pets: if you love animals, and you love a clean house, you’ll learn to love your vacuum. Oddly, though we vacuum at least 3 times a week, the dog is still afraid. Go figure. Last month, our trusty Dirt Devil became unusable. That was the little vacuum that could;…
