In which you check out the Sleep Number bed! Hah! When I got married four years ago, my mother said she’d make me (us) a wedding quilt. She asked, “What color would you like?” And I promptly replied, “Orange. And king-sized!” She coughed a little, but her eyes were twinkling. “Orange, did you say? Orange? […]

An inter-office IM conversation from this morning. Mark S. says: consider yourself lucky that you aren’t my sister Michelle M. says: uh, okay – I’ll start on that right away Mark S. says: my father gave my sister and i each 200 lbs. of beef and 100 lbs. of pork for christmas Mark S. says: […]

Apparently I was good… enough. Behold my astonishingly long list of delicious Xmas goodies! 2 brown super-soft bath sheets socks (wool and angora – yum) a long-sleeved t-shirt a spring green down vest black velvet drawstring pants 3 knives, including a super cool dicer 3 Pyrex baking dishes Tupperware containers a Barnes & Noble gift […]

In which I did NOT get to sleep in, not even a little bit. Our niece, Parker, gets up at five in the morning – greeting the day with a hearty bellow. This causes one parent or the other to bash around the kitchen preparing a bottle; shortly afterward someone’s making pot after pot of […]

How fun is it to be me? Not very, and yet at the same time, VERY. First, I’m sick. As a dog. A dog with a possible sinus infection. (Rating: not fun.) Second, Brett and I exchanged Xmas gifts last night. I gave him a BOSCH Powerbox, which is a super-tough jobsite stereo he can […]

Apparently, I don’t believe anything I read. Not enough at least. I read two unrelated blog posts today in which the authors had had too much caffiene and suffered frightening heart palpitations. So for lunch this afternoon, I had a vanilla double latté (made with Radiance Dairy milk, the BEST MILK IN THE WHOLE WORLD) […]

In which you have no idea why you’re reading this crap and you wish I’d do better. (Doesn’t the woman have an original thought in her damn head these days?) (Oh jeez, please don’t be mad at me. I’m just so boring this time of year, you see.) (Oh God, now we’re talking to ourselves […]

In which another’s misfortune makes Bread feel better. Yesterday Bread had a Bad Day At Work. Apparently he got bitched out for something he didn’t do; all the windows (which were totally finished and painted) at the jobsite in question had been set 3/4″ too low while he was working at a totally different jobsite. […]