We watched a movie Sunday night that I liked – Eagle vs. Shark. I won’t recommend it to you because I think that it would appeal to a very limited audience. It was like a wonderfully painful grown-up Napoleon Dynamite, set in New Zealand. (Brief synopsis: Lily is a big-eyed, quiet, upbeat loser [...]
Continue reading...9. March 2010
Spending 14 hours awake and 3 hours asleep in the car made me do some thinking. I’ve been on plenty of long car trips, and have different survival skills. In no particular order, here are my thoughts.
1. I am not a great driver, but I’m a worse passenger. Car trips take for-ev-er, [...]
8. March 2010
I went to IKEA on Saturday.
I’ve complained about March already, so I won’t go into the downer side of life right now, but I can tell you that on Tuesday I had a glimmer of an idea – “I could drive to IKEA this weekend. It’s the only weekend where nothing is going on.” [...]
1. March 2010
Well, March began with a vengeance. Rather than bore you with my long, long list of complaints about today, let me share with you a video that never fails to make me laugh (in the past five days that I’ve known of its existence).
This kid — he slays me. It’s not [...]
25. February 2010
I have an unhealthy love of card stock.
Every morning I get a small piece of card stock, fold it in half, then put it in my back right pocket. It stays with me throughout the day and when I realize I need to do something later, it goes on the list.
“Are you writing something [...]
12. February 2010
Lauren peeled the “help, I’m stuck in a castle” applique from the bedroom windows a few months ago, but someone forgot to tell nature.
Continue reading...30. December 2009
I received one of those super-upbeat frames for Christmas, and I wasn’t sure if it would go in our decor.
Now, with modification – I really think it does.
15. March 2010
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