My head hurts. This week has been painful and busy trying to get everything done before leaving for China ( Read more... )

My hairstylist of six years is moving to the west coast. This is a guy who has seen me through various boyfriends, a job change, and of course my marriage; whose apartment I used to go to for haircuts before he moved to the very chi-chi Butterfly salon; and who I've sent many many people to including my husband. I'm devastated, but of course he ( Read more... )

I made my (not-so-)triumphant return to yoga yesterday after nearly four months away due to my injury and surgery. My teacher was, of course, happy to see me back and told me to take it easy and to modify the poses any way necessary to spare my knee. And I did ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a milestone, my friends. I turned the big (and dreaded) three-oh, though it feels just the same I suppose.

Darren (and various others, including sveltebunny) planned a big surprise party for me, my dad came down from upstate, and we had a fabulous weekend. There was much fanfare and planning on Saturday as Darren had me on a strict schedule ( Read more... )

This is the best article I've read on climate change and what we can do about it. If you care at all about making small changes on a personal level to reverse the damage we're doing to our planet, read this article. Please.

I painted our front hallway this weekend. Haven't taken the "after" pictures yet, because we also bought a mirror that I wanted to put up. Next is the master bathroom, I might get to that next weekend but I'm not sure. The bedroom will have to wait, because we'll have to hire someone to paint who has a scaffold contraption thing. The ceilings in ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting start to 2008, with a lot of bad mixed with a decent amount of good ( Read more... )

Another productive but too-short weekend. We rented a Zipcar on Saturday to take a whole crapload of donations to the Goodwill, and then head out to IKEA in New Jersey. Surprisingly, it wasn't as hellishly crowded as I expected it to be, and we got in, picked out our stuff, and got out with our carload in a decent amount of time. Traffic going ( Read more... )

We put up curtains yesterday in our bedroom. I would not be blogging about this if it didn't make the room feel completely, totally, unbelievably different. It actually feels like a home, like a real room. Incredible.

Here's the BEFORE:


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My office has the most asinine voicemail system I have ever used. Observe the following ( Read more... )