There are 1,786 things around the new house that STILL need to be done around the house. The list is long and tedious, and honestly I try to avoid it. Especially this time of year when I become a motion graphics widow until July. So, the blank walls and the 1981 kitchen? They are just [...]

I feel like I should write some relatively eloquent post about prepping to spend our first Christmas in the new house. But every time I sit down to start, I also start thinking about all the other things that I need to do. Upshot, the christmas cards are ordered now. But that doesn’t make the [...]

One of the other odd ‘decorations’ the former owners of our house left behind is the wall in the garage. Anyone who grew up in the 80′s and bought books from the scholastic book fliers schools were forever handing out probably remembers the posters that came with your order, yes? Well, one wall of our [...]

Our new house is anything but new. It was built in 1967 so it has seen its fair share of life already. And thanks to google, I know that the original owners – the people we bought it from – had one daughter. I also know they had a dog. But that is a story [...]

Last Friday, I was stitting around at work, minding my own business, when one of my co-workers started talking crazy about 3-5 inches of snow. A few hours later, weather.com started putting out crazy shit like predicting we were going to get 10-15 inches of snow. And that is when the PTSD of last winter [...]