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Cutting Loose

I got a wild hair this weekend—haha, see what I did there?—and chopped nine inches of tangles into a chin-length bob, which was sort of a ballsy move for me, considering Id been growing m...

21 may 12

Things Ive Done In Minneapolis So Far

1. Eaten baked potato pizza.  It tasted like it would taste if a person carrying a platter of potato skins collided with a person carrying a pizza, and calamity ensued in such a way that the pot...

17 may 12

And You Shall Know Me By The Tugging Of My Earlobe

I have some things that I would like to discuss. The first is that Jared Leto is currently at my office and I am not. Trust me, Im not even sure how this actually happened—how he came to be at ...

11 may 12

How To Make A Tire Swing

You may remember that Sean wrapped up a tire for my birthday a few months ago with the promise to build me a tire swing. And it turns out hes a man whos true to his word! Go on, add your swingers jok...

08 may 12

Like A Patient Etherized Upon A Table

Oh god, Ive become the sort of person who gives her blog posts titles from TS Eliot poems, have I? Apparently I have. I do apologize, but every time Ive had to lie on one of those crinkly paper-...

04 may 12

Renovation Speculation: Will My Bathroom Remind You Of Incarceration?

We are currently in the middle of a bathroom renovation, as you may have guessed from the title of this post, which for some reason I saw fit to write as though I was rapping it (there are just so ma...

02 may 12

Lets Talk About My Vacation Part 6: The Train From Cape Town To Johannesburg

I am recapping, excruciatingly slowly, the two-week trip we took to South Africa last year.Here is part one, about our layover in Paris; here is part two, about Cape Town; here is...

01 may 12

Our Living Room: Before And After

I am fueled, for the most part, by instant gratification and so the idea of getting our house in shape slowly has been one that Ive had to adjust to. When we moved in almost two years ago—almos...

25 apr 12

List And Found

This isnt going to be anything you havent heard before, but I am a compulsive list maker. I know, I know; you probably are too, right? There are tons of us, Ive discovered, who wrest control from an ...

23 apr 12 1 person likes this

Lets Talk About Everything

So far this year I seem to be reading at a far slower pace than I was last year, and I know this because I did that crazy thing in 2011 where I wrote down everything I read each month and then told y...

18 apr 12

How To Make A Hostess Gift That Anyone Will Like

  This weekend, we were in the slightly unusual position of having two housewarming parties to attend (plus, oddly enough, a book launch and a two-year-olds birthday party. Is there something ab...

16 apr 12 2 people like this

We Went To Graceland, Graceland, Graceland

Quite honestly, I can barely stand to watch this video anymore since it took me seven bajillion hours to make it and if I never hear the opening bars to Paul Simons Graceland again it will be far too...

13 apr 12

Play Ball

I have made a terrible trade. Back when we started driving to work together, Sean and I came to an agreement which—now that I think about it—we came to way too easily for him not to ...

10 apr 12

Bad Decision Tuesday: Superfluous Hairclip Edition

Hey, you know what we havent done for a really long time? Laughed at terribly unflattering pictures of me for sport! I know its not Tuesday—although, honestly, when was the last time I actually...

09 apr 12

Lets Talk About My Vacation Part 5: Hermanus and Gansbaai

I am recapping, excruciatingly slowly, the two-week trip we took to South Africa last year. Here is part one, about our layover in Paris; here is part two, about Cape Town; here is part three, about ...

04 apr 12

Going To Graceland

Im just getting over a weird 24-hour bug, which began in the wee small hours of Tuesday morning, when I awoke to find that someone was stabbing me repeatedly in the upper abdomen. A swift and panicke...

29 mar 12

Blood On The Tracks

I think this may be the most suburban thing Ive ever said in my life, but here goes anyway: were having a bit of trouble with gophers on our front lawn. I said that to a friend last week in a bar, an...

27 mar 12

Lets Just Call It My British Reserve

One of the things Im trying to work on getting over is my fear of changing in front of other people. Changing clothes, I should clarify. I mean, Im sure you knew thats what I meant anyway, but now Im...

23 mar 12 1 person likes this

Three Entirely Uncool Things That Have Changed My Life For The Better

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20 mar 12

Slow It Down, Go Easy On Me

I have been feeling unfailingly nostalgic recently. You might argue that I am always unfailingly nostalgic—and its an argument youd win; it does seem to be my default state—but I am feeli...

16 mar 12

Splendid Thing: Draw Something

I had a whole different post lined up and written in my head—what, they dont count when you write them in your head?—but I have managed to spend the entire evening embroiled in one enormo...

14 mar 12

If Youre Happy And You Know It

Between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, I kept a collection of notebooks in which I wrote down inspirational quotes, song lyrics that seemed impossibly meaningful at the time, and the sort of pensi...

12 mar 12 2 people like this

Knoxville Girls

The first indication that our trip to Knoxville might not have been the most well thought out plan was when I accidentally booked my friend Alison on the wrong flight. "See you at the airport at...

07 mar 12

Livin the Dream

Well, I guess Im going to have to start a brand new life list now, considering I just crossed off the number one item on my current one. 

05 mar 12

Its Our Problem-Free Philosophy

I say "no worries" far too often. Im not sure where I picked up this decidedly Antipodean affectation, but I cant stop saying it. Actually, I do know where I picked it up; I picked it up fr...

02 mar 12

Were The Kids In America

Oh, Ive been meaning to ask you: how was your Presidents Day? It has not, hitherto, been a day Ive ever had off work, and so when Sean and I both realized we had a holiday, we swiftly decided to thro...

29 feb 12

Before And After: My Front Door

One of the things Ive wanted for a really, really, really long time is a red front door. Pretend each of those "reallys" is a decade and you get the idea—alright, maybe not a decade, ...

23 feb 12

Lets Talk About My Vacation Part 4: Stellenbosch

I am recapping, excruciatingly slowly, the two-week trip we took to South Africa last year. Here is part one, about our layover in Paris; here is part two, about Cape Town; and he...

21 feb 12

The Mascara Championships: Part Two

This is the second part of my super duper Nobel-prize winning Important Mascara Research, which is the kind of thing that makes people question whether you have anything better to do with your time.&...

17 feb 12

The Mascara Championships: Part One

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15 feb 12 1 person likes this

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