A Celebration of Mundanity

Because my body ignores my wishes to stay asleep, my eyes popped open at 9:00, fortunately it wasn't my usual 7 am. We were fortunate enough to visit the weekend of the The Mermaid Parade, a yearly…

Since we missed our friends so much, we decided this was a good weekend to visit them in New York City. We stayed with them in their adorable apartment situated on the first floor of a Brooklyn…

I've been meaning to reply. Why yes, yes I do love driving my Lexus.

I periodically like to go back and re-read my entries from the beginning of my blog. I noticed though, that because of the recent domain migration, that there are little niggling things to fix in my…

Every year our neighborhood has a giant garage sale and this year is the first time we've had enough stuff to sell. The whole neighborhood is involved and they've been advertising it for months.…

I was sitting in a doctor's office this morning, surrounded by the usual array of well fondled magazines and a television tuned to the office staff's choice. I arrived early and was the only person…

Playboy, for all its lack of actual smut, has provided us with a simple recipe for an incredibly tasty alcoholic beverage. It may well become my new favorite. Mix rum with a ginger beer and a good…

This is a recipe I have been meaning to post for some time. It makes a rather souffle like chocolate cake and while still warm has a creamy layer of fudgey goodness in the bottom. I've switched out…

The first day lily bloomed today, it's a few weeks early. I don't blame them, it's been like a greenhouse lately, the garden is loving it. There was an interesting statistic on the local weather the…

After spending several days helping friends who moved away from town repaint their apartment white last week, I felt inspired and clearly did not get enough painting in over those few days. As we…