Tagged: goodthings

Finally having a chance to get caught up on LJ/blogs/emails Getting the AWC website/newsletter finished, put together and sent for proofreading Sleeping in until 9:30 a.m. Going grocery shopping and finding a unexpected huge shelf of American products at a store I rarely patronize Finding a 4-meter trampoline on the internet for 1/2 the price and listening to the shrieks of joy coming from the backyard A blue and white cloud-streaked sky, sunshine, a breeze. Late summer greens, a veritable palette of different shades: sage, olive, beige, avocado, silvery-grey-green, purple-tipped. A vase full of white lilies, pink roses, white strawflowers,...

Wheeee!! Happy-package-dance times 2 today! And it’s not even my birthday yet! 5 books from my mom (thanks, Mom!!) and the coolest, niftiest, wowsiest gift from my brother and Simone: 2 strings of handmade paper flower lights. Did I mention that Simone is the absolute queen of cool crafty things? I can’t wait to put these up and kitsch up the room to an unbearably cool degree. She had hers up around the balcony while we were visiting and I admired them and told her I would love something like that, and she went and made me not 1 but...

We are officially pet owners again! No photos since I’m sensible of a certain someone’s fish phobia, although I can’t promise her they won’t pop up in a future post. Forewarned is forearmed! We got neon tetras, and some other kind of tetras (rosy with black & white accents) and some silver danios and some orange and black barbs and an algae-eater who promptly died overnight (no algae! oops) and today we added a beautiful blue and red betta. I have no idea if I have the names or species right on any of these except the neons and the...

If I post my pretty dahlia photo one more time, will you lovely people still comment? hahaha! just kidding! We had a bad car day today (not like e11en‘s, though) but then it turned out to be a good car day after all, although because of a different car. We have trouble with the brakes on our cars year after year, they get rusty faster than stickshifts (all our cars are automatic because I can’t be bothered with a manual), for whatever reason. Anders has explained it to me but as usual with car explanations it went in one ear...