Yesterday, on the trolley, I watched as a girl standing near the doors reached into her purse, pulled out a mirror and an eyeliner pencil, and proceeded to touch up her already-looked-perfect kohl rims. I generally find public grooming icky / rude / gauche / vaguely unsanitary, but I was also impressed by her dexterity. For me, touching up eyeliner ( Read more... )

Very early Sunday morning, something fell off of something else and hit our bedroom floor. It wasn't loud, but for some sleep-related reason it scared the hell out of me, and I woke up in the midst of a terrified mid-pitch scream. This oh-so-pleasant sound startled F, who had slept through the first noise, and he woke up yelling the exact same ( Read more... )

Dear Twentysomething Dude at the Grocery Store ( Read more... )

Today I received an email from Amazon, who suggested I "Save up to 40% on For Dummies Books in March." Who are they calling a dummy? Jerks.

Please ( Read more... )

Baltimore? Sketchy. Seriously sketchy ( Read more... )

Back from Mazatlan, which was fantastic. We stayed in the little town on Stone Island, which is an isthmus separated from Mazatlan proper by a long bumpy road on one side and the harbor on the other. We were nowhere need the tourist-heavy "Golden Zone" and it was perfect. We did spend one day in Old Mazatlan, which was gorgeous, but the rest of the ( Read more... )

F often walks in the door with a bottle of red wine for us to drink with our tasty dinner. He's lovely, isn't he ( Read more... )

Found during my regular morning session of interweb time-suckage, on a website about Mazatlan, in the section about local shopping (yes, shopping, because I had already read about beaches & weather):

"If you don't look around; how will you know that you didn't miss that one very special item, without which you could never be happy."

So true, so

Boston is awaiting its first big storm of the season (friends on the prairies, insert scoffing here, and know that I do feel your pain) and F and I are counting down the days till we flee for Mazatlan. In the meantime, I will try to restrain my shopping cravings and maybe even get some work done ( Read more... )