The past week my prairie city has been warm. Beautifully and wonderfully warm, so you don’t have to brace when you go outside. I love this time of year because it reminds me of how relative everything is in life. In the fall -7°C (19°F) was a looming and frightening temperature that had me bundling [...]
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I really enjoyed this sweet fashion faux pas post about not taking yourself seriously, and embracing that in your dress. Since I have a difficult time taking almost anything seriously, I thought it was perfect for me. Here’s mine…
This year I’ve been very stubborn and have mostly refused to participate in winter. I’ve especially refused to [...]
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Can we talk for a minute about how finished I am with the cold? This has been a mild winter, and for the first time in a while I’m not suffering through it on transit, but I’m still finished. Sparrows, I’m cold all the time. My toes are wrapped up in moccasins and mukluks and [...]
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This weekend was about waiting. I waited for the last load of laundry to finish, for Mister to come home from work, and for the realtor to do a walk through of the little house. I held my breath and hoped that she would like it, and melt away our anxiety around price and procedure.
I [...]

When I wrote about how we got a treadmill after New Years as part of a dual “let’s get fit” and “WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DAMNED PUPPY MUTINY!!” response plan, the message was loud and clear:
1. Some of you think we’re clearly a little nuts. Thank you for keeping score, we are.
2. You [...]

Unless you follow me on Twitter you might not know that for the past year I have been living car free. Last August when I had just started my little blog, I posted about my “Commuter Challenge”. Mister’s lease was coming up, and having a second car seemed a little extravagant. I was working and living centrally [...]
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There is a battle that takes place in our house every year, where lines are drawn and sides are taken. Come mid-October, Mister and I already sizing each other up. Finally one day he makes the announcement, “I’m going to the basement!”
And so begins the seasonal decorating.
Growing up, my family wasn’t big into the holidays. Christmas [...]
