Month: January 2014

When the idea of Super Bowl parties were in their infancy, Mark was in graduate school.  One of the guys in his lab invited us to the home of he and his wife to watch the big game. Mark was going to decline the invitation because of the general weirdness of the guy but I … Read more

I painted all day Friday and Saturday.  I was going to finish Sunday but I crawled out of bed and everything ached.  Every. Single. Thing.  Since the only thing left to finish is the hallway with its five doorways I decided to take the day off. Five doorways?  That is radonculous. So is painting. I thought that … Read more

My mom reads three different newspapers every day.  Most of them repeat the same news stories, but each of them caters to their local readers in different ways.  For my mom, a longtime obituary reader and at the mean age for that page, it is how she starts her day. When I was a young … Read more

Mark is taking back-to-back business trips and so while he is gone I’ve decided to paint the living room and dining room. This is a ridiculous idea, but since I cannot bear to turn this job over to a professional because they don’t love this house like I do (and since I am capable of painting)…..it is … Read more

When my mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas I told her a gift card from Pottery Barn.  There were three reasons for this.  #1.  It’s The Barn.  Who doesn’t get their hearts a-flutter when the Pottery Barn catalog arrives?  The new one is all about indigo so I’m mulling over changing the entire house … Read more