Last night, Scott came home, we sat down on the couch together while talking to Emily in the next room, and then he says to me: "Gosh, every bookstore in the area is totally sold out of Sarah Palin's new book ( Read more... )

Scott and I had a perfect at-home night last night. I got to COOK! It was so exciting. I made homemade minestrone with ground beef, zucchini, green beans, fresh kale, and asiago cheese, and served that with foccacia bread and green salad with pears and blueberries. Scott loved the minestrone, and we ate while watching Sarah. (Due to a lack of ( Read more... )

I can't believe next week is Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to the break, and seeing all my mom's family. All six of us-- Mom, Dad, James, Jenn, Scott, and I are carpooling in Mom & Dad's minivan together to Rockport, then staying the night so we can visit with everyone all day Thursday. Last time we were there was two years ago, right before ( Read more... )

And I am stretching out in my office chair with bare feet, listening to classical music, with that ginormous caramel macchiato ( Read more... )

One last day here in the office prepping for this event and summoning all the RSVPs we can possibly get. Scott's taking me to the airport tomorrow morning at 5:45 am, and Betty and Tom will both be on my flight to DC ( Read more... )

As this day has drawn closer and closer to an end, and I think about getting back to work tomorrow morning, I keep imagining I'm just running. Maybe I have a stitch in my side, or just bored to tears and ready to be done with it, but just one more lap, or one more straightaway. In this case, it's "four more days". I sound like I'm really hating ( Read more... )

Panic mode is on here at IPI for the Nov. 12 event in Washington. Lots of drama here in the office with one particular staff member (betcha can't guess who I mean!) and we're all missing Tom very much. He's been absent on a personal-trip-plus-business trip since Oct. 19th. I actually wonder if the latest drama, occuring yesterday, wasn't one of the ( Read more... )

I'm so impressed with my husband: after cutting out most of our old copper pipes this weekend, I actually took a shower this morning with new pipes. He's just that fantastic. The past two days, I learned how to cut pipes, both PVC and copper, then learned how to cement in new PVC pipes, and watched in awe as Scott took a blowtorch and soldered ( Read more... )

As I get to know Mark Davs of WBAP better, it gets certainly more interesting to hear what he has to say on his show each morning.

I don't usually discuss politics a lot on here, but for the sake of explaining this case in point, let me go into a recent example: the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional district featuring left-leaning  ( Read more... )

Well, our house looks like a bomb went off inside. I'm trying to not let it get to me, because who knows how long this process will take.... one month, two months... But it's tough when there are three of us at the house, three of us with our stuff we cannot put on the table in the kitchen, all the nasty drywall pieces and powder getting in the ( Read more... )