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“What Have We Always Said Is The Most Important Thing?” “Breakfast.” “Family.”
Saturday was my mother’s mother’s side’s annual family reunion. It’s the Italian part of me and they’ve been going to a local family amusement park since I was a small child. There are matching t-shirts, card games, and tons and tons of food, of course. It’s as dorky as it goes and I completely love [...]
Mining Monday: My Parents’ Basement Edition
This may be my new favorite MM, if only because I didn’t have to go anywhere, since I was already visiting with my family for Father’s Day. No sneaking around shelves, no trying to get photos when people aren’t watching, no nervousness. It was nice. Back story: My uncle is in real estate, and many [...]
Mining Monday: Only Fools Rush In Edition
After an almost two month hiatus, Mining Monday is BACK. I missed it too. To celebrate, its return, I went to the Regent Square Community Yard Sale- it only comes once a year. All those little dots were potential gems. Weather-wise, it was a FANTASTIC day for a yard sale. And unlike most Mining Mondays, [...]
I Can’t Seem To Lose You
It snowed. Again. Hold me. I can’t take much more. Okay, I’m good now. As I said a couple blog posts ago, I’m looking for a new apartment. This is my fourth move in five years: my parents moved to a new house when I was 19, I moved home from college at 21, moved [...]
Scenes From A Snow Day
While I’m stuck inside, I might as well admire the beauty. I was supposed to go to work yesterday but that wasn’t going to happen. I live on a hill, and my street was (and still mostly is) buried. I watched four-wheel-drive vehicles get stuck. Oh yes, and there was a state of emergency declared, [...]
Modern Decoration
I like chandeliers, but you don’t see them very often. Or maybe they are in houses that I’m just not visiting. The house I grew up in was from the early 1900s and had a grand Victorian staircase in the front entryway. It was made of deep dark wood (Cherry? Oak? I have no idea), [...]
Mining Monday: Veruca Salt Edition
A couple weeks ago, I slugged across town on a rainy Saturday for a church rummage sale. I wasn’t expecting much. What I found were treasures soaked in nostalgia and greed. Everywhere I looked, if it wasn’t something I used to own, it was something I wanted. I’m just glad there were no golden gooses, [...]
Will I Be Big and Strong?
Thanks for all the feedback on the winter coat situation. As much as I liked the green one, I’m going to wait. I really dug the burgundy one Cindy suggested, but I’m not going to rush… yet. I’ve been hearing tons of buzz lately about the updated version of Free To Be… You and Me, [...]
