#1 Daughter is home for Thanksgiving and wants to help decorate the Christmas tree before she heads back to school. That means purchasing the tree this weekend. The new house is considerably larger than the old one, thus there is more space to decorate. That means that for the first time ever, I'm putting up 2 full-sized trees. One in the formal ( Read more... )

*hums For the Beauty of the EarthTo all my friends who celebrate, I hope that you're having a wonderful day full of good food and hospitable companions. To those outside of the US, I hope that you're having a spectacular Thursday ( Read more... )

I got my Bon Iver tickets today. It's going to be over 100 tomorrow and the concert is at an outdoor venue, but I'm willing to brave the heat for Justin Vernon's voice. I'm thinking copious consumption of cool beverages will be the key ( Read more... )

I'm with the kids in our seats waiting for the Harry Potter movie to start. I'm dressed as Bellatrix. Julia is Astoria Greengrass. Natalie is Tonks (the book variety with pink hair). Eric is a Hogwarts student.
Matthew refused to dress up so he's our token Muggle.

What are you doing this evening?

The state of me ( Read more... )

 The process continues to move merrily along. I don't know if anyone is actually interested, but it's good for me to put everything down. Here's the latest status update ( Read more... )

For those of you following along at home, the renovations are coming along.  Of course, you start out saying "I'm just going to do a few things...." and it snowballs from there.  That being said, here's what's happening ( Read more... )

 I picked up the keys to the new house on Tuesday.  It still doesn't feel real that we have a new house. Since we're having a fair amount of work done on it (new siding and roof, replacing carpeting in the 2nd floor bedrooms with hardwoods, updating some of the bathrooms, and other miscellaneous things), we won't be moving in until probably ( Read more... )

 I don't get sick very often, but apparently I decide to make up for lack of quantity by an increase in intensity.  It's been a week since I came down with the upper respiratory infection of evil complete with my first fever in literally years and I'm slowly returning to something approaching normal.  Of course, I've lost my senses of taste and ( Read more... )

2011 is looking like an interesting year so far. Here's a brief summation ( Read more... )