animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

sons of anarchy

Jake and I watched the series finale last night. I was mostly satisfied with the ending (but at this point, I’m happy any time a show ends and the main characters are not sitting in a diner while a Journey song plays). This final season, on the other hand, was …

christmastime

We’ve been prepping for the holiday ever since Black Friday. I managed to do 99% of my shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend and figured out the rest. We usually don’t decorate and put the tree up until mid-December, but Jake wanted to do that earlier this year, so we did …

rental

I’ve been wanting to get out of the rental business for a little while now. But, since we have continually had renters since we bought our rental house in 2011, getting out hadn’t been an option–until now. Our most recent tenant moved out at the end of last month. This …

revival

This book was Stephen King’s take on the classic Frankenstein story. It was much more original than Dean Koontz’s take. At any rate, I really, really enjoyed the first part of the book (the part where the main character is growing up–no one does that like Stephen King), but after …

busting myths

We went to IUP’s Kovalchick Complex last night to see the MythBusters Behind the Myths Tour. It was quite entertaining. While they did not exactly bust any myths, they did talk about a lot of things from the show and had a bunch of audience participation opportunities. It was a …