I came across a pretty funny article yesterday. It was in The Brooklyn Paper in Brooklyn, NY (which you can read here). I doubt it meant to be as funny as it is. The article describes how a Young Adult Ward spent the morning cleaning a local park and the pretty amusing reactions of the […]
Cupcakes are a bit of a pain to eat. It seems like they would be great since they are small and portable. But there’s the whole issue of the frosting getting all over your lips; or all over your face if you are enthusiastic cupcake consumer. So for How-To Tuesday I will be showing you how […]
I probably write about concealers more than I write about anything else. Which is because I have two ghastly dark holes in my face. My eyes can be found in there but mostly it’s a shadowy zone that I have been cursing since I was a young pre-teen. Concealers are the one make-up item I […]
Due to internet trickery, I have probably forwarded you to my new blog without you even noticing. But if you are looking at this in your Reader you should click on through and take a look around. The Blog Fairy has done a lovely job designing this blog for me. It’s just what I wanted*. […]
I had some nice maternity pictures taken with Jasper since I knew he was my last baby. They were so pretty (except the ones where I look super fat). I’m not about to put them up here for your perusal since I don’t want to show my almost-nakey self to the world. But I will […]
Central Texas has quite the infestation of mosquitoes this year. We had a very wet spring and now we are celebrating buy buying lots of cans of insect repellant. We have the typical dusk-loving mosquitoes, but this year there seems to be a brazen new strain of bugs that come out during the day. It’s […]
Have you noticed I haven’t gone on one of my holiday-induced rants this season? Normally by this point I’m up in arms about the endless concerts and recitals, stupid holiday parties, and gifts for various people that I’d rather not give. I’m angry a lot at Christmas. So stupid of me. This year I decided […]
I was born and raised in Detroit. Although my greatest wish growing up was to leave Detroit and never come back, I now look back and think what a gift it was to live there at the beginning of my life. Detroit was, and still is, a big melting pot.The schools I went to were […]
I decided we were finally going to do it. Today is the day we were going to be rolling into church 45 minutes late. We are not the super-late kind of people. We might squeak in during the opening hymn, but we’re not those people who blow off all of Sacrament Meeting. Are you one […]
Misty Dowdy! Congrats! I’ll send out your goodies next week (we don’t want them sitting around a funky post office all week-end, do we?) I’ll put the brownie recipe up some time next week for all you poor folks who didn’t win.
Do you ever have those dreams where you are slightly awake but still asleep enough that your dreams are vaguely realistic but outlandish? Dreams where pointless and silly things seem completely important and logical? That was me last night. Occasionally these kinds of dreams will turn into stress fests where… Read More
Do you know what this blog is turning into? A narration of all the things I do when I’m supposed to be cleaning my house. I hate cleaning my house. How many times can I put the same dish in the dishwasher? Or put the throw pillows back on the sofa? Or pick up discarded […]
We finally made it to Arizona. I love this place. Even though the weather is similar to Texas (they are the same temperature at this exact moment), Arizona–especially where my in-laws are–looks so different. People here take great pains to make it look all lush and gorgeous: palm trees and flowers everywhere and grass that […]
It’s Makeup Monday! Which means it’s time to talk about makeup! Or in this case, nail polish. Women seem to fall into two camps: fake nail afficianodos and people who don’t really care all that much about their nails. Before I had children I loved to get my nails done and, being a life-long nail […]