Haphazardly Hobbying

Thanks for your concern about my Twitter update, everyone – everything will be fine, I will survive (! Hey Hey!  - Sorry, Gloria Gainer has made it so I can’t say that phrase without singing that last). This is my extremely small world right now. But the upside is I’m finishing this paper and sending [...]

A quick follow-up to the “Where do you get all your coupons???” post the other day. One of the downsides to this semi-obsession of mine is that I am often surrounded by coupons and it requires constant vigilance not to be physically overwhelmed by them all. I give you Exhibit A: Ok, and maybe I [...]

Mags and I had plans to hit the mall last night, and since the mall is generally a money pit and I have very little of said money, I went coupon-searching first. I must say I did pretty good: Grand Total by price tag: $106.80 Grand Total I actually paid: $56.82 Clockwise from top: Super [...]

Homer had a rough day. Can you tell? I hate everything, Mom. Especially this giraffe. In fact, I hate it so much…. …that I’m going to take it up here to kill it.  Don’t take pictures of me while I kill* it, Mom. This is not funny. It’s very,  very, SERIOUS. (Or, if you’re Matt [...]

Well, it had to happen sometime, I guess…. Spring Break is officially over as of tomorrow morning, and I’ve got that intense Sunday night feeling of dread. Tomorrow is going to be a serious bitch, what with the having to get up and shower and go do adult things like work. I LIKE being on [...]

The last of my family left for home this morning. I LOVELOVELOVE each and every person who came to stay with us during this last week. I wish they could have stayed forever. However, I am very glad to have my house back. ) ********* So, to recap – Last Friday afternoon, my cousin Becky [...]

I ran across this while surfing this morning, and was really inspired to try to do some, if not all, of these things every day. Especially after a week of company, my house feels like it will never be clean again – this is how to get it done. I may have to print these [...]

Or, at least, if MY dogs ruled the world, there would be much less of this “work” stuff and much more snuggling with Mom & Dad in the bed. Let’s just say, they’re very convincing when they want to be. That is all.

Ok, so first of all. My hair looks less like I live under an overpass and style it with branches; yay. For your viewing pleasure, I give you Before: And, $75 later, the much much much better After: Good LORD, that was long overdue. Secondly, the rest of Matt’s birthday went swimmingly – we managed [...]

Sorry for the radio silence over the last few days – obviously it’s been birthdaypalooza over here and we’re not done yet. So, yeah – Matt hit one out of the park on Sunday; it was probably the best birthday I’ve ever had. Between the exact sewing machine that I wanted and the day he [...]

Have I mentioned recently that I love my husband? Because I do, totally, love my husband.It’s my birthday tomorrow and Matt has some sort of super-secret day planned; all I know is that we’re leaving town to go do something, then we’re coming BACK into town, and have two more things to do after that. [...]

Since Thursday’s Day of Doing Things actually turned out to be a Day of Failing to do Much Besides Napping on the Couch, Going to Thai Buffet, and Generally Lazing About, I have declared this the Day of Doing Things 2.0. In order to motivate and/or shame myself into actually accomplishing the things that need [...]

I’ve spent the morning curled up on the new futon with Matt, coffee, and our various Macintosh devices (and a blanket – damn you, Gainesville weather). Right now he’s shooting the air with his iPhone Uzi app and yelling “It’s the Libyans!” I’m pretty sure I married the right guy, internets. The view from the [...]

Internets, I give you…. our latest Craigslist purchase. Interestingly, there was no whining from a certain corner about how we don’t NEED it etc. This deviation from the norm may have something to do with the fact that this awesome new futon now resides in my husband’s office. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Interesting. Also, apropos of nothing, I [...]

This is the reason why we still love them, even after a day when they’ve both been super annoying. I imagine I’ll be saying much the same thing when we have kids. ) Tonight I curled up on the couch with my super-duper husband, our dogs, and my laptop, and we watched the USA-Canada hockey [...]