I’m looking forward to my vat of wine

As seen on the rebate form for the awesome new Kitchen-Aid mixer I got for Christmas:

Pictures from Italy, Round 2: Florence

The pictures from Florence are now up! I promise I'll add captions as time and motivation permit. In the meantime, check out the new gallery.

Pictures from Italy, Round 1: Venice

Yes, yes. I know we've been remiss in sharing tales of foreign lands and awesome foods. I've been working on the trip log since we got back (when time presents itself) and I promise to have it done by New Year's. In the meantime, enjoy a new photo album of our pictures from Venice.

What happened this morning when I tried to upgrade the server?


Four-Dog Night

We had some adventures in dog-sitting over the weekend. Our friends Bobbie and Jeremy went to Disneyland with the fam and were left without a dogsitter, so we volunteered to watch their Jack Russell Terrier (Daisy) and bichon (Max). Max acted like a cat, standoffish most of the time, playing the part of […]

Yarrr! Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Better use your best pirate voice. 

Sneak peek

We're not done yet. It's taking forever and we still don't have the ability to use the stove/oven or sink. But we just dropped the sink in tonight and doesn't it look so pretty with the counter top? My neighbor, Rick, was over tonight helping and described the sink as "hot". I'm not sure I've […]

Counter Chunks, Part Deux (Or: Why I’d like to hunt down the people who lived here before us)

So… many more pieces of counter just spontaneously fell off . And then the counter turned into the giant scab on your arm that you just can't leave alone. I picked at it and picked at it… until this happened:

I didn't really mean to do it. It just happened. In the midst of the demolition […]

Someone please explain this to me.

How can I be expected to continue responsibly toward my goal of debt-free living when pieces of my shoddy counter top are falling off in CHUNKS on my toes while I do dishes? 

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

We resisted as long as we could, but Jesse and I are now addicted to Lost.

My mom came to visit and brought episodes of Lost on DVD for us to watch. We've only finished the first season so far, but we love it. We would have finished more of it if my mom hadn't brought […]