Still sick. Alex is, too. Yesterday we spent almost the entire day on the couch watching TV (or napping). Today we had some errands to do. We ran to Lynnwood to Scan Design to return the fabric swatch from our sofa that we borrowed. Then we went grocery shopping, including picking up a bunch of supplies for our Oktoberfest party this Sunday ( Read more... )

The last handful of days have been a flurry of home decorating shopping activity. On Saturday we met Sara (our designer) in Lynnwood and bought this couch (only ours is in a light brown) for our living room:

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It's been a few days, so I'm overdue another post and this might end up being a bit of a day by day synopsis more than anything else ( Read more... )

Had a "big spender" kind of day today. I dropped off three of my least used Coach purses to Alligator Purse, the consignment shop here in Bothell. That felt so good that I hopped in the car (with Alex, of course) and went up to the Marysville outlet mall where it turned out the Coach outlet was having a 30% off sale! So I spent probably more ( Read more... )

I had the follow-up appointment from my gall bladder removal surgery today. The appointment literally took 1-2 minutes. The doc shook my hand, I raised my shirt to expose my belly and the 5 holes, he removed the three remaining steri-strips, made a comment about healing nicely, and that was it ( Read more... )

It used to be that Livejournal was the primary way in which I stayed connected with the universe. Then FaceBook came along and I (along with many others) spend a good deal of our time there ( Read more... )

So, I figured I would do a baby poll along the lines of those done by chtitroll & jrstraus before their little ones were born ( Read more... )

Meme from uinendolothen

Directions: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

( 1. Massage )

I stopped blogging about what I was reading some time ago, but I think the time may have come to resume.  Partly because I'm going too far in between posts without discussing reading.  And partly because I'm excited that I've found a monthly reading challenge!

The Paranormal Romance Group over at www.goodreads.com (of which I'm a member) started ( Read more... )

http://savethewords.org/

Today I adopted a word that is falling out of the English language through disuse.

My word is:

diffibulate - verb - to unbutton; to unbuckle
"He found it difficult to diffibulate her blouse using only one hand."

With all the romance/erotica I read these days it's a wonder that this particular word is going the way of the ( Read more... )