When I got home from work today, Adam had just finished painting the master bedroom and was craving pizza. I put on a t-shirt and a pair of shorts and my old blue Birkenstocks that I recently dug out for the first time in about three years, and we walked down the street to Fellini's, where Adam devoured over half of our spinach and mushroom disc o ( Read more... )

Tomorrow begins our long weekend of moving. Between when I wake up tomorrow and when we pick up the keys from our new landlord in the late afternoon, I need to pack up the main clothes closet and the remaining detritus of my various desk drawers, scrub down the back bathroom, get rid of as many of my old newspapers as possible, and help pawn off ( Read more... )

I went to the mall today during lunch and dodged a couple survey-takers, the kiosk people who want to show me how to straighten my hair and iron my clothes, and a lady who would have offered me a "challenging, entry-level marketing position" had I given her and her clipboard a second look. I don't know who these people are, but I suspect they're ( Read more... )

Survey yanked from grammargirlThings you are afraid of ( Read more... )

After finally tiring of wearing the same black skirt and same gray skirt to work since the year of my college graduation, I dragged myself to the mall early on Sunday afternoon. I never found a decent replacement skirt, but while wandering through Nordstrom, I was hit with the sentence that absolutely must be the last line of my novel. I have to ( Read more... )

Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes! We've done a good job staying busy and so I haven't had time to reply to comments yet ( Read more... )

Greetings, Livejournal, from Seattle. If you recall (and I don't expect you to), I bought Adam a trip to Seattle for his 30th birthday, which was on Sunday. We took off from Atlanta yesterday morning, crossed the time warp, and landed here before noon. I can already tell that it's going to be hard to convince Adam to come back east with me on ( Read more... )

Oh look. I have not written here in a while. Big bloody surprise. My ego is not big enough to feel comfortable updating about everything going on in my life, yet too big to allow myself to delete this electronic voicebox. And so we go on ( Read more... )

Upcoming Stuff in the Life of Me:

tomorrow: Decemberists / My Brightest Diamond show at The Tabernacle
April 12 - 17: Florida (visiting family and friends, mostly. I think we'll also go to Busch Gardens. And Adam has something planned for our anniversary, but he's keeping it a secret)
May 9 - 13: Seattle! Adam's 30th birthday present from me.

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It's almost April! How do these things happen? I thought I should post something before the month is out ( Read more... )