I took West to a Hillary Clinton rally (and Elizabeth Warren was there, too! Their first joint appearance since June!) on Monday. I figured I'd give the run-down of the day here for posterity's sake ( Read more... )

It's 9:45 and every present in the house has been unwrapped, including those that required long skype sessions with the grandparents for unwrapping. West was up at 5:30, which isn't that bad because that's exactly when he usually wakes up. This was super successful Christmas season. I pulled off a hail mary gingerbread man cookie baking session ( Read more... )

I have just learned that there is an Institute for Mummies and Icemen, and I feel just a little like I have wasted my life on librarianship when I could be working in an institute for mummies. Oh well. I'm sure that requires more work and effort than I ever wanted to put into my education. Librarianing is perfect for the lazy scholar, learn just ( Read more... )

OMG I cannot with these snowed in days. I am losing my mind being stuck inside! The only thing keeping me chugging along is the promise of our trip to Scotland (!) that we are doing in the spring.

This morning my train sat unmoving just outside of North Station for literally one hour due to signal problems. FML I hate commuting in the winter.

I have become a crank. This week I have called in to report 4 unshoveled sidewalks (to be fair, 3 of the 4 were in one phone call). The Boston sidewalk I reported was cleared and salted by the next day (it's state-owned property, so no excuses)! The Salem ones, at least the guy I talked to said "that sounds familiar" about one and "we've been ( Read more... )

Blissing out right now on an actual quiet Saturday afternoon. I freaking love that West still naps in the afternoons. Had time to eat lunch while watching an episode of The Americans, and even managed to get a mostly-healthy mango snack cake whipped up and into the oven. It is quiet but for the hum of the dishwasher running. These moments are the ( Read more... )

Oh jeez. I spend a few minutes on Pinterest and suddenly I want to create fallscapes in my front yard (if I can call it a yard) and think I could actually decorate our home for seasons. Ha. I do, however, want to make this menu board for our kitchen. Right now our weekly menus are scribbled on pads of yellow paper and clipped to the fridge. And our ( Read more... )

What am awesome day off! Kitchen counter remodel: finished. Laundry: done. Outgrown clothes & toys: put away. Lunch spent at Gulu Gulu getting some writing done: achieved. Haircut: done (OMG, I love our Aveda salon! They give free mini-facials while your hair conditions, it's non-tipping, and their products smell amaaaazing... which is why I end up ( Read more... )

West slept all the way through the night, entirely in his crib, with nary a peep last night! So this is what "having energy" feels like. It feels good ( Read more... )