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One-room makeover: the bedroom

I redecorated the bedroom at the height of summer. Relative to the rest of the house, this was probably the most basic, uninspired room, containing mismatched furniture and not much style. There’s a queen bed and nightstand (both the bedframe and nightstand were made by JD’s…

A letter to Mad Men, the last four episodes of which I can’t bring myself to watch

Dear Mad Men,

You’ve been in my life for a while. I started watching you on Netflix in 2012, back when I lived in Lakeview, when I was new to the city, a million…

The show I love to hate, Royal Pains, is finally over, praise everything

Okay, TECHNICALLY Royal Pains was over in the summer of 2016, but I have always watched it on Netflix when the season becomes available a year later, so I’m just now catching up.

A goodbye to my co-commuters

If you follow me on the onlines at all, you may have seen me crowing about getting a new job recently. Hooray for me! I have been job-searching FOREVER and very soon I will be at a new place, making more money. It’s the American dream and I’m proud of myself.

Things I’d rather do than disappoint someone

Live alone on an island for the rest of my life

Make myself a cocoon, but then just never come out of it

Get into a car accident bad enough to put me in the hospital for a week or so

‘My skepticism, my cynicism, my chauvinism’: An interview with my mom about her summer in helicopter logging

The summer that my mom, Mary Pat, was 25 years old, she worked for a helicopter logging company in northern Idaho. It was a pretty brief gig, but…

Meet the squeebs

JD and I adopted our cats in the fall of 2013, shortly after moving in together. I grew up with cats and only had one requirement: that they be cuddly, friendly lap cats.

My husband, on the other hand, took the scientific approach. He did a ton of research on keeping cats…

New Year’s resolutions and all that jazz

This year, in the first quaking moments of 2016, I’ve come around to the practice of making a New Year’s resolution. I used to be the type of person who snubs their nose at resolutions, because I thought they were stupid and rigid and fail-guaranteed ways to…