They say you don’t know what you got till it’s gone, but I’ve found the inverse can also be true – you don’t know what you didn’t have till you have it. Err… what I’m trying to say is that I didn’t realize just HOW unhappy I was in LA until we moved up here. […]
We hired a professional cleaning service to do a thorough, top to bottom cleaning of the house before we move in next week. They started today, and told us that they couldn’t finish it because the house is “really, really dirty.” So they’ll be finishing it up tomorrow. We also decided to have the 3 […]
I have a husband, a baby, and a HOUSE. Hell’s minions are having a snowball fight, as we speak. We closed on Thursday afternoon, got the keys on Friday afternoon, and went over to check it out again today. Remember I mentioned that the previous owners had tax liens against them? Quite a lot? Well, […]
I can’t even begin to describe how much better I feel when I just get out of the apartment. (We’ll be moving in to the house NEXT WEEK!) This weekend we went to wander around Ballard (a neighborhood of Seattle) and on Sunday, we did the 2.8 mile Loop Trail in Discovery Park (up to […]
Ok, so I’m really sick of corporate housing. It’s nice enough & all, but sometimes it hits me just how much we’ve had on our plate this past couple months and just thinking about it makes me exhausted. Birth, the 2 days in the hotel before flying up to Seattle, the flying up to Seattle, […]
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 […]
So after I, nearly last minute, decided I really, really wanted a home birth, my fabulous & amazing Doula did some scrambling and found me a midwife who is available. Best of all, it’s someone she works with at a Birthing Center, so they know each other & work well together – which bodes well […]
I can’t complain about Monday, ever again… Woke up this morning, Mr Nikki checked his email and found that HE GOT THE JOB IN SEATTLE. Finally, after an agonizing two weeks of waiting (during which time the HR guy leaked that they had to finish a couple more interviews) – MR NIKKI GOT THE JOB! […]
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 […]
As you know, we had a whirlwind marriage – we ran off to Santa Barbara on the last weekend Mr Nikki could take a day off of work. No muss, no fuss, just as I like it. But that also meant no honeymoon, and for as much traveling as he & I did before we […]
