Rabbit Rabbit! Happy June, my favorite month of the entire year. I love the long sunny days and the warm weather. I love the end of the school year and taking the laptop outside in the mornings to work. A few years ago, my MIL bought us this wrought-iron R sign and I had no idea what to do with it so I hung it on a hook and forgot about it. Last week I decided to actually do something with it. We had some flat wooden bed slats for a long-gone IKEA bed in the garage. We also have eight ...
Wordless Wednesday 2023 Wk3
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Friday 5: Texture (and a remembrance of my red sofa)
Friends, the time has finally come for us to let go of the red sofa that was a fixture of my very first single-lady apartment. (that blog post is pure gold, by the way) Purchased in 2006, the red sofa has been the source of snuggles for 3 dogs, 2 cats, and 2 people. It's been in 2 apartments and a house. In an effort to keep the sofa forever, I restuffed the pillows and refreshed the batting in the seat cushions. I've steam cleaned it. We bought legs to replace the ones that had puppy teeth ...
Fractured Fairy Tales
Woof. Finally the nonbloggable becomes bloggable - Mom (aka A-Woww) tripped and fell 2 weeks ago, fracturing her kneecap and shattering her elbow. The knee will heal on its own in an immobilizer which thankfully allows her to walk. The elbow required surgery. That happened on Wednesday and now the mending begins. While she's a bit more banged up than the ankle incident from 2011, it's not as bad because she's not bedbound. In fact, today we went to a bridal shower! And this time around ...
February update
Hello, lovelies! I was going to quietly sunset this blog after the last post but UGH I miss it too much. So you're stuck with sporadic updates until I die or retire and can't afford hosting, I guess. Today is day 2 of a four-day weekend. I'm supposed to be at Walt Disney World right now, but in December we decided to postpone the trip until fall. So it's a staycation, if by staycation you mean scrubbing toilets and Magic Erasering streaks on the baseboards. Watching: WWE and New Japan Pro ...
We bought a house!
Reason # 1298437 why my blog will never make money -- when Big Life Events happen, I stop writing. I can't help it. I'm always afraid I'm going to jinx things. Short story: We finally found a house, bought it, and moved in last Saturday! Longer story: I never thought we'd find a house we'd both agree on. Seriously. We put in an offer on a house that we knew we'd lose just so we could put out into the Universe that we were ready to buy. That we came to play. (warning: Youtube video) But back ...
persistance
I hate spiders. They freak me out. I avoid them. I have nightmares of them dropping on me from the ceiling -- nightmares that actually send me scurrying out of bed. So last week when I saw a ginormous web stretching from the eave of my house to the grill beneath it, I was less than pleased. And when I saw its inhabitant, I ran back inside. The next morning, I noticed the web was gone. "Good," I thought. But that night, the web was back. I half expected it to say "Good Pig." I warily eyed the ...
Things I have discovered in my first month of homeownership
We use THAT much water?Pergo + feet in socks = fun!Too much exposure to yellow and blue plaid wallpaper causes homicidal tendenciesRecycling, though beneficial, is a huge pain in the ass.Pergo + hyperactive small dog = more fun!Lawn envy does, in fact, exist.Letting a dog crap in another person's garden and not cleaning it up is one of the basest forms of human behavior.Especially if it's YOUR dog and MY garden.There are no shortage of home security companies willing to call me.Pergo + ...
Lovely weekend
Aye, t'was a lovely weekend indeed. The weather was in the high 80's, which used to be higher than average for May. But in this new era of weather, where springs and autumns only exist for a week, it seemed alright.Today is Day One of the S0uth Be@ch** Diet . Yeah. I know. You can probably go back in my blog and find all sorts of quotes about how I love carbs, I'll never go low carb, blah blah blah. I would go back and link to the entries, but if I do, I'll have half a loaf of Wonder Bread down ...
