January 1, 2012

on resolutions and failure

I have a love/hate relationship with New Year’s Resolutions. I make them, I break them, I feel like a failure. So, this year I am going to make them but I am going to make them not so hard to reach. I wrote myself a list in a notebook and put it in the top [...]

November 9, 2011

Olive the other reindeer

I was going through some boxes in the storage room a bit ago and came across a yearbook of mine from elementary school. For the longest time (I won’t admit to how long) I could not figure out what the word “avisible” meant. I never thought to ask anyone, I just assumed that was what [...]

October 18, 2011

words with family

(The following is a conversation I remembered as I was preparing to shave part of Noah’s head.) (I say “part of”, as there is only hair on part of his head.) Noah: “Your mom just played ‘ganoo’ in our Scrabble game. That isn’t even a word.” Me: “You mean ‘gnu’? It is so a word.” [...]

October 15, 2011

instagram cheat using portrait orientation

I am a little bit of an Instagram addict. The only thing that sometimes bothers me about Instagram is that I cannot post an entire photo that is in portrait orientation, like the one above. Sometimes I take the photo using my generic iPhone camera app instead of with the Instagram app, and then when [...]

May 13, 2011

I think I like this Friday Bullets idea

(Thanks, Angella!) *I had an ultrasound this morning on my gallbladder. Except they told me it was “squished” and so they couldn’t see it and they didn’t believe me that I hadn’t eaten anything in 10+ hours and so the whole thing was pointless and Kaylie was late for school AGAIN for no reason at [...]