Why we have so much junk:
“But Diana, you just never know when you might need another Ethernet/Coaxial/USB/AC adapter/HDMI/Optical audio/firewire/(fill-in-the-blank) cable. You can really never have too many…” Keep in mind that all of the various cables/cords we are currently using are still attached to their respective devices (and believe me, we have plenty of “devices”). These are just the “spare” [...]
View from the River
As we were cruisin’ on down the Mississippi headed out of New Orleans, we got really excited (to an embarrassing degree) about spotting places we knew in the city. Childish, I know. But there’s something fun about being far away and up really high and seeing the normally mundane things from a totally different perspective. [...]
Bathroom progress & public speaking skills
We spent the whole day working in the bathroom today. I’m exhausted, but it’s the good kind of exhausted. The kind that says, “I’ve actually done something productive and accomplished something today.” It’s nice. There’s still much more to be done in the bathroom, but we are inching our way closer and closer. I know [...]
Hooray for peeing on pee-pads!
It’s funny the things you do when you’re trying to house-train a puppy. Two otherwise reasonable, mature adults (okay, maybe that’s taking a little TOO far) start celebrating and making a huge deal over a little puppy that finally decides to pee on the pee-pad. I found myself wondering what we would look like to [...]
Weekend Update
Our “bathroom” now has a ceiling, a shower (with no faucet yet), and about half of the walls. It’s actually starting to look like a real room! We hope to get the other half of the walls done this week, have the rest of the plumbing done, and have at least a semi-functional bathroom by [...]
