“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
― Erma Bombeck
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
home is people
“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
moving!
The first piece of exciting news for this fall/winter is fit to print: we're moving!
That's right, we're going from a tiny studio apartment to a kinda-small one bedroom apartment! This apartment is so fancy, we're going to have things I've never had before in my entire (hah!) adult life.
New things:
1. Dishwasher. That's right. I haven't had a dishwasher since I left my parents' house for college. It's a brave new world, folks.
2. Full-size refrigerator. Our current fridge is a half-size or young-person size or don't-have-enough-room size or poor-young-recent-grad size or whatever people are calling it these days. Whatever you want to name it, we're going to have one that's almost twice as big. Amazing.
3. Counter space. Currently, we have about 6 inches of counter space. I wish I were exaggerating. Full-size kitchen, here I come!
4. Separate bedroom and living room. Which means we get to have an actual couch. In a living room. With furniture. And curtains. Like adults have. Adults have curtains, I think. That sounds right.
5. Huge bathroom. Sharing a bathroom with husband will no longer feel quite as much like a weird tetris game.
Quick rabbit-trail sub-list: Things we'll probably never have to say in the bathroom again:
1. "Can you move over a little while you brush your teeth? I should put on some mascara before leaving for work."
2. "Dude, you're taking over the whole bathroom."
3. "Can't you wait five minutes while I put in some hair gel?!"
4. "Deodorant doesn't go there. And why is the toothpaste not in its usual spot? HAIR THINGS GO WITH THE HAIR THINGS. No, sorry honey. You're right. I shouldn't have gotten upset. It's just deodorant."
6. Carpet. The verdict is out on carpets vs. wood flooring in apartments. Will let you know if this is a good new thing or a not-as-good new thing.
7. Triple the closet space. Honestly, this is better news for hubby. He probably will still only get a third of our closet (sorry...) but at least the third will be MUCH bigger...right?
8. Washer and dryer in-unit. I cannot even explain how happy I am about this. Cant. Even.
9. Walls to paint. I get to paint the rooms! More on this soon.
Can you tell I'm excited?
That's right, we're going from a tiny studio apartment to a kinda-small one bedroom apartment! This apartment is so fancy, we're going to have things I've never had before in my entire (hah!) adult life.
New things:
1. Dishwasher. That's right. I haven't had a dishwasher since I left my parents' house for college. It's a brave new world, folks.
2. Full-size refrigerator. Our current fridge is a half-size or young-person size or don't-have-enough-room size or poor-young-recent-grad size or whatever people are calling it these days. Whatever you want to name it, we're going to have one that's almost twice as big. Amazing.
3. Counter space. Currently, we have about 6 inches of counter space. I wish I were exaggerating. Full-size kitchen, here I come!
4. Separate bedroom and living room. Which means we get to have an actual couch. In a living room. With furniture. And curtains. Like adults have. Adults have curtains, I think. That sounds right.
5. Huge bathroom. Sharing a bathroom with husband will no longer feel quite as much like a weird tetris game.
Quick rabbit-trail sub-list: Things we'll probably never have to say in the bathroom again:
1. "Can you move over a little while you brush your teeth? I should put on some mascara before leaving for work."
2. "Dude, you're taking over the whole bathroom."
3. "Can't you wait five minutes while I put in some hair gel?!"
4. "Deodorant doesn't go there. And why is the toothpaste not in its usual spot? HAIR THINGS GO WITH THE HAIR THINGS. No, sorry honey. You're right. I shouldn't have gotten upset. It's just deodorant."
6. Carpet. The verdict is out on carpets vs. wood flooring in apartments. Will let you know if this is a good new thing or a not-as-good new thing.
7. Triple the closet space. Honestly, this is better news for hubby. He probably will still only get a third of our closet (sorry...) but at least the third will be MUCH bigger...right?
8. Washer and dryer in-unit. I cannot even explain how happy I am about this. Cant. Even.
9. Walls to paint. I get to paint the rooms! More on this soon.
Can you tell I'm excited?
Friday, November 15, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
changing slowly
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.”
― Henry Beston
Friday, November 1, 2013
autumnal sunshine
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks
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