Not much blogging these days, but hey – life’s been happening in the meantime. Here’s what I’ve been up to:
Driving to LA a lot for work. One of my jobs – helping to direct this program – and my internship – with an awesome international nonprofit – both require me to [...]
This weekend is going to be of the non-stop, rushing-around, busy-bee variety. I like those, every once in a while. The espresso machine is all warmed up. My spreadsheets are in order. Lists keep growing as things get added faster than items are checked off, but that doesn’t make the box-checking any less [...]
Sometimes, this completely insane revelation hits me like a smack in the face:
I married a person.
Like, an actual whole person. With his own little world inside his own little head, his own experiences and thoughts and ideas and stories and worldview, entirely separate and fundamentally different from my own.
A [...]
Ben and I completed another strength training program recently. We coincidentally started the 603 PTP right when lent began, so it was sort of our forty-day lenten commitment. Way more fun than Fish Fridays, that’s for sure.
After Starting Strength, I definitely felt stronger but also a [...]
I need to use fewer hyphens, I know. I just sometimes get on this hyphen roll and it feels suddenly appropriate to hyphenate anything and everything in my path. I almost called this a pseudo-recipe, but didn’t because that would just be too many hyphens. That’s what I think it is, though.
At a potluck [...]
I am mind-numbingly responsible. I’ve always done all my homework and paid all my bills and gone to bed on time. Let’s face it: I’m kind of a boring person. My most rebellious phase of high school involved sneaking back in a couple hours after curfew, but that was usually because I was the perpetual [...]
Have I mentioned that I have the very best friends on the whole planet? Oh, you have great friends, too? I couldn’t possibly actually believe mine to be somehow objectively superior, right? Oh wait, I do believe that? Seriously?
Seriously.
We’ve all happily gone our separate ways over the past few years. But three states, [...]
We married young. Pretty effing young. Not because I was pregnant, or because we’re super conservative hicks, or because we were adorable high school sweethearts, or because I was dragging him into it. Really.
When I was in middle school, I remember visiting my aunt and cousins on the East Coast. [...]
This might be weird, but I love my fruit bowl. It sits prominently on the kitchen counter and makes me so happy whenever it’s overflowing with fresh goodies after a trip to the farmer’s market, community garden, or regular old grocery store. Here’s what I always keep readily available:
bananas - for quick snacking, these [...]
