And by “it” I mean anniversaries. Seth and I are the kind of people who prefer “experience” type gifts over material gifts, so when our first anniversary was coming up, I called dibs on planning how we’d celebrate it. I had spent the previous summer making pretty regular trips to Traverse City for work and …
Sydney I arrived in Sydney after a 14 hour flight from Dallas (and a six hour layover before that) exhausted and sure that I wanted nothing more than a nap. So when I found my sister at the airport, we headed to our hostel. Yes I said hostel. I know in America that word conjures …
Hello everyone. It’s been a little crazy on our end this past week or so, due in large part to some tough family stuff going on. Many of you know that my dad is an alcoholic, and has been for as long as I can remember. Last weekend, we had an intervention and sent him …
In 2012 my sister, Allison, was studying abroad in Australia. I had been working at the Bench for a little over a year, hadn’t yet bought Bones, and had no idea what to do with server money after working minimum wage retail jobs for the previous six years. So when she suggested I come visit, …
Today I’m going to talk about “in a pinch” window treatments that work. This post is pretty short because these are pretty easy. Sometimes you have a window or two that needs dressing up without needing a full-blown window treatment. It may be a frosted window in your bathroom. It may be a window that …
So. You and your partner think that you’re ready to take the next step in your relationship and acquire a baby mammal of some kind. For the purposes of this blog I’m going to assume that is a pet and not a baby human because I have no experience acquiring children (that sounds so …
I’ve got a few new scientists in the works for this series, but none of them was quite able to get back to me in time for May (it’s a busy time as many scientists prep for their field season or have already begun it), so I figured I’d share with you the scientist I …
When we were renting our house, we had a regular old 40 gallon tank water heater. I’m honestly not sure how old it was at the time. But it drove me nuts, because apparently, I like to take absurdly hot showers. Seth says it’s like I’m trying to burn myself alive. Needless to say, our …
In our circle of friends, RISK has always been our excuse to get together and hang out, usually for absurdly long game sessions. One complaint we always had was that the countries on the RISK board were often too small to accommodate large armies (of plastic game pieces). At the time, we had a hand-me-down …
Finding furniture for our house can sometimes be a real chore. I have already mentioned Seth’s penchant for picking up nearly anything off of the curb and bringing it home. But one topic upon which we can have an especially difficult time agreeing is when it comes to upholstered pieces like couches and chairs. Kayla …
