A Celebration of Mundanity

The strawberries available in stores right now are pretty wonderful. Nice and tart and red and the achenes are also mostly not yellow, which means the strawberries were actually picked while ripe.…

Mark and I stopped by my parent's house tonight after dropping our friend off at the airport. My mom brought out my elementary school graduating year yearbook. This prompted me to finally get around…

When Mark and I bought our house, we purchased it off of friends of ours from whom we were renting the place. We already knew we loved the place, we loved the neighborhood, we didn't need to shop…

Little baby James is getting so big! I need to make sure I see Robyn and her little boy more often. I love Robyn, every time I spend time I see her I am reminded that I don't see my girlfriends often…

Eee gad! How domestic can I get in one evening!? Cooking dinner, baking cookies, sewing curtains, cleaning... Well, I sewed only one windows worth of curtain tonight, worked out the bugs for sewing…

I went a little darker, I was expecting something a little less red. I don't know about this one, I might be immediately going back to the 'ginger twist' of the previous color change. Although, I…

As promised, photos of our Volcanic stone bedroom: Excuse the mess... the room isn't put together fully yet. I love the new mirror we mounted on the wall, we needed something to break up that…

It's a little dark outside to get a nice sun filled room photo, but our bedroom is now a River Rock textured 'Volcanic Stone' color. Thank you to Mark's mom for giving me a hand with this room. I…

It was beautiful, really. Everyone was sitting around the lunch table chatting, I got up to microwave a cup of water for my *fake work coffee. As I retrieved the boiling mug, I tripped and liberally…

An open letter to the smokers at the bus stop: I realize the huge inconvenience, that the demolition of the building at the bus stop has disrupted the natural pattern of waiting and has dislocated…