Cloudy Florida

In Tampa tonight with Tom the Brit (my former next door neighbor and physicist extraordinaire).  Tomorrow we’re heading up to the Kennedy Space Center, and the next day is unplanned (I’m thinking we’ll go down south to the Fort Myers area, though — we were going to do St. Augustine, but I’m just not feeling [...]

Saga of the Straightener

I finally got my CHI straightener, and it is amazing… The problem, though, is that it only turns on about 20% of the time. Figuring it must be defective, I tried to return it to Amazon (that’s another story, the result of which is that I have two CHIs right now, and they’ll [...]

So What?

I am completely addicted to this song, “So What?” by Little Wings.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to it.  Melissa (of renowned music taste) introduced me to this song on her best of 2005 mix, and I’ve since bought two of their albums, which I also like, but I’m too obsessed [...]

Saving More Daylight Than Ever Before

Bush may be blowing the national budget and increasing our deficit, but he is helping us save more daylight than ever before.  The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was signed (in 2005), and it pushes back the end of Daylight Saving Time to the first Sunday in November, rather than the last Sunday in October.  [...]

People Will Always Need Plates

The title is also the name of a company that I discovered this week through a blog called We Made This.  They might be right.  I’m not sure.  I did date a guy once who had only one plate (could easily have been a bowl).  Once we cooked dinner — I got the plate and [...]

People I Want to Be, Part 1 of Only a Few

Natalie Portman.  Allegedly she is also 5′3″ — a good height, I think.  I’m pretty sure she weighs less than me, but if we had too much in common, that would be weird.  I think she’s a great actress.  She’s only a month older than me, and went to Harvard, and finished in four years, [...]

That Elusive Zero

Paying off the credit card was a little depressing this month, as it required a little kind of big dip into savings.  I spent more than I made.  I’ve been a little down about it.  But really, I need to look at what I have that caused this, which is namely functional brakes.  Functional brakes [...]

Sunny Saturday, Snowy Sunday

Colorado’s weather is seriously schizophrenic.  Yesterday I wished I’d worn shorts, it was so hot.  Today I had to brush snow off of my car.  Now it’s just cold and windy, sun peeking through the clouds just a bit.
It’s a hangover day, too.  Last night was this “crush party” at the Hi-Dive — it was [...]

Seriously

I’m ready for this craze to end:
 
Last night there was an infiltrator at the sorority alumnae happy hour (yes, I’m a sorority alumna).  He was actually from Las Cruces, a town I like, but had escaped long ago to Chicago and then to New York.  He talked a lot about fashion and how little he [...]

Back in the Game

I have not been very good about writing this week! It was really cold Sunday night, and I brought out the giant down comforter, and now it’s hard to get and stay out of bed. As much as I’m starting to hate the cold, I do like the coziness of winter.
Not much has [...]