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Craft Spree.
Each and every fall I draft an extensive list of indoor projects for the winter. Most of them involve the sewing machine, which is an exhausting thought in and of itself. I mean, let’s be real here: I’ve sewn exactly one pillow and four curtain panels in my life. But lately my list is getting … Read more
Home Alone Day 2, or How I’m Eating All the Junk Food in the House
Day two. Tonight’s dinner of choice has been handful after handful of Cadbury Mini Eggs and yet another bout of organizing. I finally had enough of the baking powder clattering to the kitchen floor, so the overflowing baking ingredients are now tidily housed in woven baskets. I am slightly horrified when I find myself opening … Read more
Home Alone.
I’ve got the house all to myself until Wednesday night. I stayed in all day while the snow came down. Watched the last regular season Badger home game. Went on an OCD tear and organized the bathroom storage. It took until nightfall to remember Boyfriend wasn’t coming home tonight. And so as my Sunday treat, … Read more
College Basketball is Keeping Me Up At Night. Again.
We got home this afternoon just in time to catch the final three minutes of the Wisconsin Badgers v. Ohio State men’s basketball game. And it was epic. There were 19 lead changes during the game, and it was a battle to the end. I clung to a white plastic bag, heart rate hammering, jumping up … Read more
Adult Guilt.
It’s 2:19 on Friday afternoon. I am sitting on the couch with a heated blanket wrapped around my lower half. The television may or may not be on the DIY Network. It’s warm enough outside the living room window that fresh snowfall is already beginning to melt, and the sense of freedom is almost overwhelming. … Read more
They Call Me Red
Growing up, one of my dad’s favorite pastimes was taking the three letters on a stranger’s license plate and making up a saying out of it, typically aimed at how idiotic their driving was, but that’s neither here nor there. My mom’s plates were MWM, or: Mean Woman Man. He would also come up with … Read more
The Night Circus
This book. This book. It is the highlight of my 2012 year of reading so far. Yes, I know it’s only February. That is how good this book is, and I’m not even half way through it yet. [!] “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it … Read more
Winter birthdays…not the greatest
My birthday is this Saturday. I’ll be 28, no big deal. But let me tell you, winter birthdays [in the midwest] are the worst. No ice cream cake like all you summer birthdays get. No drinking outside on a rooftop or deck. No pool party (indoor water parks are always an option, but I think … Read more
Christmas is over.
So Christmas came and went, and it certainly was a fabulous one. I went on a baking tear, and between a three-tier birthday cake, cake pops for a wedding, apple cider snickerdoodles, dark chocolate toffee bars & champagne cupcakes we have been on a sugar high for the last two weeks. It doesn’t help that … Read more
I’m losing sleep over basketball, or Nankivil the Tankivil
College basketball is keeping me up at nights. This is the one time of year I’m not in bed with a book at 9:30, I’m white-knuckling the edge of the couch as Wisconsin/Texas/Pitt/Illinois makes/misses a tre/dunk/free throw. [Although Wisconsin rarely misses one of those.] Watching the Badgers has been a treat, particularly since, oh just … Read more
