Monday, February 26th, 2007

Inside the Snowglobe

posted by Kristin | filed under Travel | 3 Comments

If you want to hire someone to control the weather, don’t call on me. I asked Chicago to give me a break, and instead it dumped sleet and snow on me. Bad, Chicago. Bad!
But it turned out I was more tolerant than I thought. We didn’t have time on this trip for jaunts into […]

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Low Tolerance

posted by Kristin | filed under Travel | 8 Comments

I’m going with my mom this weekend to the Halloween Costume & Party Show in Chicago. This is her annual buying trip for her store, and I’m going along because I’m now running the costume web site.
Of course, when we’re having the loveliest weather in months (sun shining, 60 degrees), I leave for a climate like this:

No offense to […]

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Under the Hot Light

posted by Kristin | filed under Extracurricular | 2 Comments

Last week as I was driving to work I got the idea to volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
It might’ve had something to do with the episode of Adoption Stories I saw the night before, in which a couple adopted cocaine-addicted twin babies through the foster care system. Every time I see or hear something […]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

The Devil Frolics in Our Details

posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms | 2 Comments

One of the reasons our bathroom progress has been so glacially slow (as compared, for example, to Fixer Upper’s lightning fast jealousy-inspiring three-month renovation) is that we keep running into problems that seem at first so tiny and then blossom into massive undertakings.
One such detail that has held us up recently is the baseboard […]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

It’s Expensive to Be Fabulous

posted by Kristin | filed under Bathrooms, Misfortune, Wishing, Shopping Disease | 1 Comment

We got a depressing gas bill in the mail this week. $298.54. That’s a $100 increase over the previous month and, more importantly, a $100 increase over the same month last year.
This winter we’ve kept the thermostat on a not-so-balmy 63 degrees, instead of the 59-60 (with the occasional splurge to 61) degrees we […]

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