Yesterday, I took part in the Wicked Half Marathon in Salem, MA. To be honest, I didn’t expect a whole lot from this race. It’s relatively small (about 400 runners) and is only in its second year. When the day dawned and it looked like this:
(foggy, with 100% humidity and rain in the forecast) my [...]
Yes, it’s official. I am registered to run the Philadelphia Marathon on November 23rd. The hotel reservations have been made, the vacation days have been approved and the fees are all paid. However, (cough, cough) I can change my mind up until 10/31. OK, so that’s a pretty weak committment. I admit it. I don’t know [...]
Though I’m sad that the cold weather is rolling in, I’m thrilled that we can start using our fireplace. We fired it up a few times this weekend and it was glorious. We haven’t stocked up on wood yet, so we found ourselves at Shaws last night hunting for wood or one of those fake [...]
A brief tutorial, based on my own observations:
Make coffee, take a huge gulp and discover that the old coffee from yesterday was never rinsed from the pot before the new coffee was brewed into it. Savor the cold, bitter taste.
Listen to your husband’s cell phone alarm go off 45 times. Call up to him in [...]
I guess I’ll post some updates all around. First, house updates of course. Nothing big this time, just some small changes that were easy to do and make me happy!
We bought a built-in dishwasher even though we don’t have our new kitchen to build it into yet. All I cared about was that it washed [...]
And I’m happy with the result! Thanks for all the opinions, even though they were completely mixed and didn’t help me much.
Here are the results of yesterday’s painting frenzy: New living room color
