animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

an incidental redecoration

Sometime last month, Jake and Lizzy managed to bend the handles on my wine opener (I’m guessing Lizzy knocked the wine opener stand over and Jake tramped on it). This wasn’t any old wine opener, either–it was a silver-plated limited edition one given to me for Christmas a couple of …

kalifornia

We watched this movie last night. It starred Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis. The movie was rather reminiscent of Natural Born Killers (which also starred Juliette Lewis), but not quite as good. We did enjoy it, though. This movie actually came out a year before NBK, so it wasn’t quite …

nine lives

Brian and I watched this movie last night. I have to say, we were both really impressed with it. The story presented one clip each from nine women’s lives, some of which intersected. While each clip had a similar theme, the stories were all very different. It was definitely a …

the fifth day of christmas

We made a road trip to Maryland this afternoon and visited Brian’s grandmother. She spent Christmas with Brian’s aunt’s family this year so we didn’t get to see her until today. It was a pretty nice drive because it’s all country roads and there’s never any traffic. Plus, the weather …

the fourth day of christmas

We have this thing with our families where each of us is required to visit the other familys’ house once per Christmas season. We’ve already been to Brian’s parent’s house (Christmas Eve) and my parent’s have been here (Christmas Day), so we knocked out the other two today. We went …