Tag Archives: home improvement
My Attic is Blown
It sounds like beatnik slang, or a euphemism better suited to a Misbehaving Tuesday post. Alas, like so many colorful descriptors, attic blowing is consigned to the parlance of home improvement contractors. Yesterday, when the insulation company rep called to confirm the appointment for this morning and told me, “We’ll be there at 8:00 to [...]
Labor Day Weekend, Pictorial
What was planned: a jaunt to Saugerties for a lovely, casual, Labor Day weekend wedding. What happened: sewage took a jaunt up the pipes and necessitated a costly, emergency replacement of the line out to the street. I recognize that this isn’t interesting to anyone who isn’t me, but for $4,400, I want pictures. And [...]
Arm and Yammer
All this shit happened. Literally, all this shit happened. I’ve been trying to write about the JCC making me feel like an asshole, and my one great massive phobia making me feel like an asshole. Then sewage started backing up into the house, and it turns out the whole line from the house to the [...]
Lauren’s Famous Yellow Shoes
Scott called me today while he was standing with a co-worker I’ve met a few times, and in the course of conversation asked me if I had anything to pass on to his fellow salesguys. I said, “Hi.” His co-worker said, “I heard about the yellow shoes!” Now I want to wear them everywhere, even [...]
On the Outside
We almost cleared the brush from the center of the yard, before we realized that it was all tiger lilies. It would have been a bummer to miss this:
And in news from the front yard, there were visitors on our doorstep last night! Meet Earl and Penny.
To Do List.
It is already starting. The web classes officially ended four days ago, and I just obligated myself to fill in for another yoga teacher twice this week. Then, we’re off to see my dad in wherever the hell he lives for the weekend. Why do I do this? As my grandmother just said to me, [...]
Mmmm… Lavender
I got a little bottle of lavender oil with a basket of goodies Scott bought me for Valentine’s Day. I don’t usually wear scented oils, but thought it might make a nice linen spray. I would never pay for the stuff, but I had the ingredients in the house, so… I filled a little spray [...]
Audience Participation, Among Other Things.
1. On Thursday I drove to Howard County (locally: Hard Counnie, home of the Hard Counnie poe-leece and fahr department.) to have a look at some bedroom furniture I saw posted on craigslist. When I scheduled the appointment with the woman selling and she said that the furniture was at an assisted living facility, I [...]
Misc. Dog
I.Last Thanksgiving, Scott and I decided that we were going to have Thanksgiving at our house this year. Since my mom’s family is [such a long story], it seemed like the right thing to do. And, we figured, it would give us a deadline for finishing our basement. We decided it would be a good [...]
For The Love of Man!