It's not news to some of you that I have a little bit of a guilt complex. Okay, maybe it's not so little. Maybe it's more like a "compound." But I swear, it began as this cute little bungalow, which I built just for me and a few low-maintenance house plants. But I've since added a couple of rooms, a...

In all the places C and I have lived before New Jersey, I've always been aware that our neighbors could potentially hear us. And I'm not just referring to during the, you know ... play times. I'm talking about during casual conversations. Fully clothed. Just talking about things like tea. Or grits. ...

It was really hard to come back to work this morning. At least it is another short week. I’m thinking about taking Friday off to make another long weekend. More on that in a second. My parents flew to London on Saturday. They were originally going to go to New York City for the weekend, but th...

I went for a haircut this morning. The plan was a mere trim - I have a slightly longer than chin length bob. What I walked out with is a chin length bob with the back stacked a bit so that it’s nice and short on the neck. Me likey. And what was really nice is that my hairdresser complimented m...

This week seems to kick Christmas into High Gear. Today: I need to finish prepping the food for the Christmas lunch at my office tomorrow. Since I’m the lead planner, this means that I did all of the shopping and most of the cooking. I’m totally OK with that and I’m happy that I ca...

1. I have my next prenatal appointment around lunchtime. I’ll post to TG later with the report. No ultrasound today - just the normal check up that includes listening to the heartbeat, which is pretty cool. 2. The weekend was generally good and busy. At this moment I cannot remember what we di...

I've got a Tumblr blog and a few new content feeds, which I wanted to tell you about. But first, if you've been reading this blog for a while, I have to take a moment to ask: Are you okay? Would you like some aspirin? A drink? A few Xanax? Jesus. Some of this shit has been pretty depressing lately. ...

One way to relax after a Sunday afternoon herding leaves is to have a couple of beers and sit on the couch with your hand under your belt and watch some football and feel good and fine and strong—and downright brawny, damnit, like the guy on the paper towel rolls—for having worked hard a...

... And Jesse decided it was time to par-tay. We had a good day yesterday. Nice and relaxing. Got a nap in the afternoon. We attended a birthday party for a family friend in the late afternoon. I took Roasted Orzo and Shrimp, which was super easy to make and delicious. We bought home about 1/3 of it...

The Pork Cook-Off: Mom bagged all of the tenderloins with marinade yesterday. She got 3 tenderloins into each gallon bag with 1 cup of marinade. With 8 bags to go she ran out of marinade. That’s 2 gallons of marinade. So I made a new batch of marinade for the rest of the meat and realized that...