In the spirit of 2012 being a happier year, here's a light and fluffy post about shopping for couches.  :)

We live in a 1948 ranch house.  The best description is that it's like living in a NYC apartment, but with a deck and a yard.  We live on one floor, and we have a basement that can never be finished off.  The garage "floor" is dirt.  Now, the ( Read more... )

I have a huge update for "Grindstone", but I'm not going to waste time right now to write it all down.  :)

The reason I don't want to waste time, is that I'm trying out something new this weekend, and it's really working well for me.  See, here's how a typical weekend works out for me.  I set out on Friday with grand plans of "doing chores" and then ( Read more... )

Cool Neighbors™ house is back on the market.  There's a long tangled story going on with all of their real estate transactions, but that's their story to tell.  However, on this end, they had found a short term tenant who rented the place from October to February.  Now that the tenant is gone, they've relisted the house.  Which means I've returned ( Read more... )

Two days ago, I was polishing off a pint of that luscious coconut milk ice cream.  It seemed a little soft to me, which I pointed out to Dean, but Per has been a bad fridge citizen (not closing doors fully, playing with the temperature controls), so we thought there was a simple explanation.

There WAS a simple explanation, only it wasn't the one we ( Read more... )

And I've made it to the gym on the days I chose. 
Currently I'm just doing cardio and stretching.  I need to add weights, but as I recall from the last time I was regularly working out, the weight circuit adds another 40 minutes to the visit.  My personal 'advisor' (aka opinionated friend) said "Well, that's why you go one night and do the cardio, ( Read more... )