The thing I miss the very most about my San Diego house is my lemon tree and herb garden. I keep wanting to believe that we won’t be renting long enough to put plants in, but I also don’t want…
2011 Year of Pleasures #30
Pete Holmes would not trust me, because I have the biggest sweet tooth ever. I went to the dollar store and they had all kinds of interesting things to try. I love these lemonhead candies, they’re like really great sour…
2011 Year of Pleasures #29
I think ceiling fans are so ugly, but right now I am obscenely grateful for them. It is hot.
2011 Year of Pleasures #28
This is such an easy one, but the love I have for my Netflix Instant Streaming is deep and abiding. It has been my companion in my moping, my refuge from the heat, my haven from endless Sesame Street reruns.…
2011 Year of Pleasures #27
Somebody take this bowl away from me. It was full when I started.
2011 Year of Pleasures #26
This little guy is going to make me eat cherries like they’re vitamins. The only bad thing about cherries is dealing with the pits, and now I can get rid of those as fast as I can shove them in…
2011 Year of Pleasures #25
When things need to be put away upstairs and I don’t feel like going there, I have a habit of just setting things on the stairs so I can take them up on my next trip. I did that a…
2011 Year of Pleasures #24
Not one single thing this year has gone the way I planned it. Not one. And with the Africa trip falling through I was twice as bummed because of all the other plans I put off in favor of it.…
2011 Year of Pleasures #23
For years, YEARS!, I’ve had this idea in mind for a project using a ring with a premade bezel. I searched and searched and came up empty. When I could find one in a jewelry finding catalog it was the…
2011 Year of Pleasures #22
During my weekend in Sacramento I wandered around town checking off a list of all my favorite things. Coffee shop hot chocolate? Check. Fancy pastries? Check. Independent bookstore? Check. And of course, whenever I’m at a tourist trap I can…