So, yesterday. Waiting to cross lyndale at 25th on my way home from work. There's no light at this intersection, and the pattern of the traffic signals on the adjacent blocks seem to coincide all wrong. So sometimes it takes a bit of waiting. Well, there's a guy standing in the street being all impatient about it, doing a back and forth dance ( Read more... )

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my kids sat at the lunch table today yelling at eachother ( Read more... )

currently, the cat is staring at the top of one of the wingback chairs we acquired recently trying to decide whether she wants to try to jump up there or not ( Read more... )

Manda will have lots of pictures to post when we get home, but I wanted to have some written record of our trip as well. So you get to read it if you want. lucky you ( Read more... )

I am so full of good crush energy right now ( Read more... )

I think the only think I like better than (not biking during) thunderstorms is biking after them. All the green and the cool and the fresh combined to make me unable to resist extending my evening commute by 2 miles or so. This is virtually unheard of. I was also reminded that the houses around lake of the isles are gorgeous. Preposterous, but ( Read more... )

This past weekend was one of the best i've had in a long time. Thursday night, the girl and I went out for bubble tea and a vegan cookie, which we consumed at a toddler-sized table in a play structure. Friday, we did some shopping and such and then went to uptown again to buy bike tubes, go to the used book store, and go to Plan B and read for ( Read more... )

most days, life isn't at all the way I expect it to be.
a smiling baby in dinosaur pajamas is the good kind of surprise.

I went out running, by choice, for the first time in my life on Friday. It was really good, surprisingly. but now I hurt everywhere. so no more until at least tomorrow. more like Wednesday, probably ( Read more... )