I’m such an idiot. Such a colossal idiot. I went to the beach last weekend and I made sure to bring my sunglasses, my sunblock, and my huge floppy hat to protect my sad little red-head skin. I sat there with the Good Twin and her kids and her sister and worked on knitting my […]
[Continue reading...]Whew. Done.
June 16, 2007
I’m sure you figured by my absence that I did go back and work. I actually managed a part time schedule – and that advice was just what I needed. I worked a couple days a week and worked in the house the other days. It allowed me to feel like I actually was being […]
[Continue reading...]Rock and a Hard Place
May 18, 2007
Crap. Crap crap. I only have 12 days left here, and they just asked me to stay three more weeks. The lady whose maternity leave I’m covering has decided to take her vacation days to stay home longer. Not that I blame her a bit, I certainly wouldn’t want to come back to a crappy […]
[Continue reading...]My goals are getting thrown out the window.
May 16, 2007
Whoever invented wallpaper deserves a slow painful death. I intended to have all the wallpaper down, the whole downstairs painted, my studio painted, and the master painted before we moved into the house at the end of the month. The problems with these goals are many: 1. I’m still working full-time at the stupid stupid […]
[Continue reading...]Date Night
May 11, 2007
Last Friday Bear and I went out to the movies to see Blades of Glory. We’ve been meaning to see it since the very first time we saw the preview. We were so excited we practically made a paper chain to count it down, and yet once it was in the theater it took us […]
[Continue reading...]I’m picking up some steel wool on the way home.
May 7, 2007
There are about a million and one antique slash vintage slash thrift slash consignment stores around here. One of the many bounties of living in a resort town. Over lunch I zipped over to Pacific Coast Highway so I could check out about four in about 15 minutes. Most of the stores were predictably shabby […]
[Continue reading...]This is it…
May 4, 2007
We signed all our loan documents on Saturday, we did our final walkthrough on Monday night, we wired the money off on Tuesday, and as soon as I leave work I’m meeting Bear at our new house where the keys are awaiting us.DUN dun duh…… I really want to keep up on the blogging because […]
[Continue reading...]Thrift Store Finds
May 3, 2007
Like most crafty bloggers, I adore a good thrift store. Growing up, that’s the only shopping we ever did. Every back to school season meant trips to Value Village and St Vincent DePaul. I remember how mad I got once Nirvana became superstars and everyone in my Seattle suburb junior high decided to use their […]
[Continue reading...]Flower fields
April 30, 2007
This is how I spent my weekend: These are Giant Tecolote Ranunculus…es. Ranunculi? I had actually never seen these flowers in person before, but apparently the farm here in Carlsbad grows like 90% of these flowers in the country. They were so exquisite I was just in heaven. The petals are incredibly dense, yet paper […]
[Continue reading...]Now I have to accidentally repent
April 27, 2007
Bear and I love a good meal. Discovering a great little hole in the wall is one of our greatest pleasures. I don’t think we’ve eaten at Chili’s or Applebee’s since we’ve been married, and only very rarely at the Olive Garden because Bear has a weakness for the salad and breadsticks. Not drinking alcohol […]
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