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One good way
A good way to lose all your oldest friends would be this: to go through all the old comments on your blog where they were being super funny at each other and stick those comments into a novel, making them into thinly disguised “fictitious” conversations, and then try and get the novel published, thus profiting … Continue reading
Mighty Worker
There’s a lot of work to be done here in the home. Gene has a lot of work-doing skills, but no free time. I have a lot of free time, but few skills. I’ve been trying to shift the balance in favor of Gene having more time, but it is gradually dawning on me that … Continue reading
What worries me most
It’s not so much that I talk to cupcakes while I’m making them. It’s the things I say.
Wriggle
I spent all morning yesterday curled up in the library, planning out the garden we’re going to plant in the backyard. Just me, a pot of tea, the Sunset gardening book, a pad of paper and a flood of sunlight from the Southern exposure. Bliss. Later in the day, full of tea and resolve, I … Continue reading
Bacon
Today is just one of those days. The kind of day where you wake up depressed for no real reason, and then you decide to snap yourself out of it by being proactive and hanging some curtains upstairs already, and then you, being terrible with tools, manage to snap the head off of Gene’s 3/32 … Continue reading
And you are…
A funny thing happened at our New Year’s party. I ran into our friend Randy in the hall, the first time I’d seen him that evening, and completely blanked on who he was. My rather panicked thought was “This face looks familiar, but I can’t possibly know anyone this handsome.” It’s astonishing what a tuxedo … Continue reading
It’s curtains for you!
I found myself driving behind a modified hearse on the freeway a few days ago. The back window was all tricked out with red velvet curtains, including a rather snazzy valance, and a sort of dead-looking teddy bear was peeping out. It is a measure of my current decorating madness that my first reaction was … Continue reading
hairs
Another reason grownups don’t dye their hair purple is that sometimes, apparently, it doesn’t wash out. Urgh. Fingers crossed that my salon appointment is productive. Otherwise, I guess it’s chin-length hair for me again. URGH.
I found out why grown-ups don’t dye their hair purple…
…when I dyed little purple swirls into our lovely green couch with my wet hair today. Thank goodness for stain remover!
Decorate
It must be so strange to be the spider who lives in our tree, watching this human woman who cheerfully decorates the leaves with fake cobwebs and plastic spiders and who jumps back in fear whenever the real spider makes an appearance.