So we’re moving to England! Sometime next month, although it will not be official until Cenaida and others who are at the very top of the notification list receive a simultaneous text message confirming our plans. I have been preparing to live in an entirely foreign country by reading things like An American Looks at [...]
Remember that one time a little over a month ago when I posted about the horrible injustice of working a 40-hour week? That was before I worked a 70-hour week to do all of the desktop publishing and 70+ graphics for a proposal. While I was sick. So that was pretty awesome. Two weeks later, [...]
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the second-happiest day of my mom’s life, the first of course being the day I was born: Stephan and I got married! To each other!
In the long, long year since, we have taken to referring to any decision we have made or can otherwise take credit for as “the [...]
We have a friend named Joel who played the piano at our wedding. Then he accepted a job with one of my company’s biggest competitors.
Silly Joel.
I reminded Stephan that even though Joel should really be working for my company, we have to still be friends with him, so he can play the piano at our [...]
So we went to the coast last weekend. And the weekend before that, but I did not learn any particularly valuable lesson then.
On the most recent trip, however, I drove the car from the Inn at Otter Crest to Newport Fred Meyer and back. When I pulled into the parking lot, I put the car [...]
I have a husband, whose name is Stephan. He is many things.
He is very smart.
He is very funny.
He is very handsome.
He is very nice to kittens and babies.
He is packed full of integrity.
He is an excellent communicator.
He is disgusted by chocolate.
Wait, no, that last one is a lie. He used to be disgusted by chocolate. [...]
You would not believe what I have to go through when Stephan is out of town: I have to wash my own dishes, people.
So not worth being the sole recipient of cat affection.
Stephan told me what to blog about tonight, but I’m defying him. It’s what I do best.*
Instead, I will tell you about how when I write a cookbook the recipes will not say ridiculous things like “Prep time: 5 minutes,” because my cookbook will not assume that all of your ingredients have been chopped, minced, [...]
I have this husband who thinks that I’m “complicated.” How, I ask, could this be construed as complicated:
S: “What kind of juice do you want?”
K: “Surprise me.”
S: “Orange juice?”
K: “No, not orange juice.”
S: “So what kind?”
K: “Surprise me.”
When it comes to candy, however, I am a person of simple tastes. I like my candy to [...]
I have returned from doing absolutely nothing for the entire fabulously 3-dayed weekend. We did make a list Saturday morning of things that needed to be done, but it involved things like “read” and “watch Happy Feet.”*
We meant to climb Dog Mountain today, but that somehow turned into baking a lemon chiffon cake with lemon [...]
