Hooray, May!

This month I’m not eating out.  I’m making an exception for things that were planned in April, and I will have an occasional social coffee or tea (but I’ll suggest we make our own coffee or tea or dinner or whatever).  Why?  Health, money, and an eat-your-peas mentality that it will be good for me [...]

Grounded

I’ve been thinking lately of how I haven’t felt grounded in a while. I feel like I have (and have been accused of having) one foot out the door in various situations — as soon as something feels a little too comfortable, I’m anxious to get out of it. It happens in jobs [...]

Sunny Saturday

I’m in consumer mode today: a birthday present, a graduation present, and a new coffee table for me! We’ve been looking for a smaller one for a long time — it makes our apartment seem just a little bigger, which is nice. My sister and I discovered a fabulous shoe store called [...]

Covering Ground

Oh, my goodness. I was fortuitously linked from one good blog to another yesterday. Particularly good was this post: vids featuring slipping between the covers (by which I mean books, squire), and the particularly good part of that post was this video, Librarian by Haunted Love:

I think it is [...]

Stormy Weather…

…I love it.  I really do.  But I liked it better in England.  The campus I lived on there had covered paths between all of the buildings, so you could walk from one side of campus to the other without getting even a little wet, unless the rain was blowing sideways (which it sometimes was).  [...]

Weekend Purchases

Before this weekend, I’d never been to The Container Store. My friend at Anything But Mundane took me down there this weekend, though, and I found some useful stuff — containers for my bulk foods! I buy a lot of bulk grains — they’re much cheaper than anything packaged, you can get as [...]

Temporary Disappointment

A few weeks ago we had a party… and you guys left us with so much alcohol we thought about having a leftover party (before we drank a lot of it). There has been a mystery bag of alcohol in the fridge for a few weeks — I thought it was an extra [...]

Wanted:

Your happy thoughts.  9-2 on Friday as I take my comprehensive exam.  Imagine me focused, knowledgeable, undistractable by hunger, thirst, other people’s sniffling noises, or my own need to pee every half hour (I’m serious — these are my worries!).  Help me hope for good questions, to which I will have intelligent, well-formed answers…
Maybe you [...]

Right Song, Right Time

Sometimes the universe aligns, and the perfect song is played on the radio at the perfect time. I was getting really sad about the state of our wounded world on the way to work this morning — sad and stressed, and then KCUV played Patty Griffin’s “No Bad News,” which I suggest you listen [...]

The Story of Dumpster Dawn

I just read this blog post at Treehugger, and it reminded me of an old roommate…
Once upon a time I finished a lease for one of my favorite friends who left to join the Peace Corps. One of the new roommates was a friend from school, and the other one was inherited. Make that [...]