This is a milestone. Dan and I have outlasted at LEAST one celebrity marriage! HURRAY!!! I'd like to do some mathematics! Kim and Kris: things in common: names start with the letter "K", have both been on TV. Both known for their anatomical stats. things their marriage had to overcome: living in New York City, tabloid rumors, and Kris having to marry a Kardashian. Cost of Wedding: reportedly $20 million. Duration of Marriage: 72 Days.   cost/time= $277,777.78 per day of marriage. Lorraine and Dan: things in common: inability to resist a char-broiled hamburger, love of the rural american west and history, common religion, and we are often told that we look alike. things our marriage has had to overcome: money, long commutes through suburbia, an inexhaustible cat whose preferred attack time/location is "the sleeping face". cost of wedding: $5,000 duration of marriage: 458 days, and I don't anticipate divorcing tomorrow. cost...

1. Sometimes at my job, I stumble onto the public blogs of total strangers. If they are really good, I revisit them later on my own time. CREEPER. 2. I have a cuticle issue. Actually, it wasn't an issue for me, but it's an issue for Dan, so now it's an issue. I ought to have G photograph my cuticle issue for his hands project. 3. I struggle with the fact that my coworkers' TV tastes are profoundly higher than mine. Because, you know, I love the Bachelor. I do. I really do. 4. That probably needed its own confession line. 5. Bless me father, for I have watched the Bachelor and enjoyed it. 6. EVEN THE BACHELOR PAD. (AKA, the Eighth Deadly Sin. Deadly to your BRAINZ anyway.) 7. I live on a diet composed almost exclusively of carbs.  cream of wheat, english muffins, pad thai, and a cookie. That's what I ate yesterday. oh, and some juice?  And a red bull? Is that a carb? Paleo Diets are for Pets. 8. "Is butter a carb?"  9. I get on the KSL Class...

I feel like sometimes I go weeks without any good customer services experiences, beyond a gum popping teeny bopper asking me if I want my receipt, like, in the bag or whatever.  So when I have a good experience, it sticks with me. I hope you'll indulge a small series by me shamelessly plugging retailers doing good work,  and I hope that if you're in the market for "stuff", you'll give them your business. (ps- I in no way benefit from bragging about these businesses, I just like them.) Today's Feature: FAB: This is a website that offers discounted prices on select designer clothes, house wares, and art. Most of it is modern, some of it is overpriced, but some of it is incredibly reasonable, and really handy. Such as the iced tea pitcher I got on there for a steal. But where they win is in customer service.  I got a collapsible water bottle from their site about 3 weeks ago, and it hadn't shown up. I hadn't yet gotten to c...

Epiphanies, like feeling the presence of God, food in your belly, or Oprah, come and go.  The exact moment that you feel it, you are transcendent, looking above it all.  And then just as quickly the lights dim and the burnt edges of the moment fade as quickly as an UNDO on a horrible photoshop action.  Reality is restored.  But you hold on to that epiphany, that brush with the divine (I suppose this could apply to God or Oprah), that feeling of fullness for as long as you can, to keep in the coffers for the darkness that's to come.  Sadly, so many of my epiphanies come in the most embarrassing of ways. If you've been following my blog since my bravejournal days , you know that I went through this phase with LOST.  Where, living in a studio apartment on the other side of the country, those characters were my closest friends, and we had this one extraordinary thing in common: we were forced to examine the question- if you have lost everything that used to...

It's hard to post photos of the house under the guise that the house is "done" when there is still so much that I want to do. But where we still have so many critical needs for the house other than "get rid of the ugly but functioning fan in the kitchen" there are some things that I have learned to  live with    ignore really well. Ceiling fan? What ceiling fan?  So, while I present the kitchen in its current state, know that there are more ambitious plans in the works, but that in fact I think it turned out pretty darn cute for the $53 we spent on it. BEFORE:   AFTER: The curtains I got from my friend Vanessa, who was going to donate them. The long ranch table was a gift from my wonderful parents (can you believe how perfectly it fit??) and the chairs I got at DI for $5 each. The ceramics were wedding gifts from my wonderful Aunt and Uncle.  Sunlight ! BEFORE: This is a terrific shot of the horrifying mustard that used to be on the w...