… when blogs go silent & the number of daily readers plummets. I am obviously no exception. I’m busy running around to farmers markets, collecting pick ups at my CSA*, walking, finishing the house & plotting our belated honeymoon. Which, by the way, we’ve finally come to an absolute conclusion. I’m a little bummed about […]
Well, it’s time to start planning that belated honeymoon of ours, because if we don’t… October will be here before you know it and we won’t be able to do a thing. As is typical of me, who always gets skittish when it’s time to commit to something & make plans, I’ve started questioning and […]
For the millionth time in the past couple months, kid (kid? teen?) came a-knocking at our door, asking me to buy stuff for their fundraiser. I feel like a real sh*t saying no to them, and wonder if everyone on the block is going to think I’m a bitch for doing so. (Wow. Only 3 […]
I did a search for farmer’s markets on the east side* and found LOTS. Enough that I could go to at least one (sometimes two or three) each day of the week. Yesterday, I went to the one in Carnation, expecting great things, from what I’d read on the website. I was a little disappointed, […]
Nugget is – OH MY GOD – 6 months old this week. Can I just say that, so far, this is the BEST AGE EVER. I know it’ll continue to go up and down, but right now, I love this age on him. Love it. He’s finally started sleeping on a consistent schedule – anywhere […]
Well. Everyone posted about their mother’s day, so I’ll post about mine! A couple of weeks ago, we were watching Top Chef Masters and during the introduction, I yelled, “There’s one in Seattle! We should go!” Mr Nikki agreed, and then we promptly forgot about it. Well, *I* forgot about it. Mr Nikki did not. […]
As someone who eats, and always has eaten, a tremendous amount of raw vegetables and fruit (it’s practically ALL I ate while pregnant), I can tell you that produce in Seattle is a million times better than anything you’ll find in Los Angeles. Hell, yeah. And let’s not even get started on the fish. I’m […]
Speaking of wanting to make soups and things I CAN eat if this glucose thing doesn’t go over very well next week… As you all know (or maybe not), I’m obsessive about natural, whole foods. I’m thrilled that when I go visit my parents, my mom even points out that she bought bread that doesn’t […]
Yesterday started out great. I finally got my ass to the chiropractor and I didn’t realize how much I’d been hurting until I left the chiro’s office to walk to my car and called my mom to yell, gleefully, “THIS IS THE MOST PAIN-FREE 10 FEET I’VE WALKED IN WEEKS!” It’s sad when you notice […]
Hank said to me this morning, “Whatever you want to do tomorrow, we’ll do it.” (Which is an odd thing to say, because, really, if either one of us every really wants to do something, we do it. And what I really love to do is never make plans.) However, in the spirit of that […]
When I was a vegetarian and even when I was a vegan for a few weeks (could never give up cheese and cream for longer than that), I was never the preachy sort. I might have been, but I was too busy fending off attacks from the meat eaters. I never understood why my personal […]
My Christmas is full of funny stories, and that’s in progress. But first: Our New Year’s Eve dinner was nothing if not decadent. I took notes up until dessert so that I’d remember every last bite. We went back to Valentino’s, because I have sentimental feelings for them now (first oyster, the veal cheek, etc) […]
