This time last year, I had no idea that the word "Mandolin" wasn't just referring to an instrument in the lute family. I never considered the importance of the numbers 18/10 or 18/0. Nor did I realize the difference between china, porcelain, and ceramic objects. I also never knew that there was such a thing as a "seafood" fork and what exactly the ( Read more... )

Writing here as a means of sporatic procrastination from the pains of deconstructing (and soon reconstructing) my closet. I've never realized to what extent that I've been a packrat before, but when I find a bag full of receipts from 2006 shoved in a cubby hole, it's rather annoying. I shall strive to be even more organized that I have been in the ( Read more... )