Shoot me now.

So. I’ve been back at work for a month and things are settling into a routine. Clara is gaining tons of weight and turning into such a funny little girl. I really love this age. She’s close to sitting, she’ll stand holding onto the crib rail if I put her there, and she’s become so [...]

And I wonder why I hate people.

So my great growing tomatoes? Someone came and ripped (literally) my two big (still green) brandywines right from the vine. Like, the stalk where they were hanging is all shredded — this person just tore them off with their hands, I guess. Now my brandywine plant doesn’t have any fruit at all. People really suck, [...]

A brief annoyance.

Our church has switched to a summer schedule, going from three services (8:00, 9:00, and 11:00) to two (8:00 and 10:00).  This, frankly, sucks. We usually go to the 11:00 service, which allows us to get up around 8:30 and spend a leisurely hour having breakfast and coffee before getting ready and driving over. Now [...]

Growing (green) things

I generally consider myself to have a black thumb — I kill plants. I have had any number of indoor and outdoor plants over the many years, and I have managed to kill every single one of them. And it’s not even that I kill them through neglect — I’ve killed plants that I was [...]

How I spent my day off

I wish it were acceptable for me to only bill four hours a day, every day, because today was perfect: I did some work this morning, from the couch, in my jammies; then I went to the gym for a leisurely workout; and finally, I stopped by Pier 1 for some needed home decor items [...]

Stay-at-home wifely adventures, Day 2

I have unpacked the rest of the books. All books now live on shelves. No books live near their natural book friends (except my cookbooks, which Mr. D. kindly collected on the shelf nearest the kitchen). The disorganization of the books bothers me but I’m not sure I have the energy to deal with it [...]

Countdown

I spent the lovely long weekend with Mr. D., in our new city, in our new home. We unpacked, we put together furniture, we cooked, we watched TV…it was fantastic. I love our rental house — it’s spacious without being cavernous, it has lovely old touches, it fills with light in the afternoon and, notwithstanding [...]

Passing time

So it’s my first weekend at home without Mr. D. And this week I’ve been out on Wednesday night, on Friday night, and I’m going out tonight. In other words, I’m keeping myself busy. Given the travel circus of last weekend and the late nights Wednesday and last night, you’d think I’d’ve been able to [...]

Prep work

Since Mr. D is off to parts east in four short weeks, we’re starting the process of getting all packed up. (We needed to start doing this anyway, since our landlord is putting our apartment on the market and asked us to “declutter” as much as possible. Never mind that she didn’t offer to pay [...]

Clean up, clean up, everybody clean up

My landlord is planning on selling our apartment after our lease is up. Well, I suppose she’s hoping to “sell” it—have a contract—before our lease is up so that closing can happen right after she sells it. In any case, she is going to put it on the market some time this summer. She can [...]