our family’s festivus picture

yuletide joy

five years ago i finished working my second holiday season in a row. this means thanksgiving, chrsitmas, new years and valentine’s day. i worked at godiva chocolates in the mall (out of all the holidays i’d have to say valentine’s day was my favorite because of all of the men who ran in at the [...]

gratitude

i know it’s the week after the thanksgiving week, but i wanted to do this all last week and i just never got around to it. i baked all wednesday, had a ryan’s-family thanksgiving that night, baked and cooked all thursday with my mom (we were fight-free this year!), had a my-family thanksgiving with my [...]

10 (yay for double digits) & 11

in honor of double digits, there are double photos

a time for family togetherness

my mom and i get along really well. i always joke that we have an annual fight at thanksgiving and that’s it (it’s only sort of a joke. you know those jokes where you’re completely serious but you say it like it’s a joke so no one gets mad at you?). every year, my mom [...]

over the weekend

sometimes i’m the only one laughing.

i can’t help it.

9

gazebo ceiling

on a walk with toby

while out walking with toby i found this written in chalk outside the front door of one of my neighbors.

“the person who lives here is a lying, cheating, dirty pig”

well. now i know.

my husband: the mongol

me: if you could live in any culture or tribe in any place in time, what would you pick?

ryan: I’d be a mongol in the 10th century. A foot soldier. Man, those guys had it all.

doesn’t that look like fun?

marlon brando and me

this has actually become my default story whenever i’m in a situation where they make you introduce yourself with an interesting story. so here it is: (so you can see that i’m not lying, ryan!):
i was working as a receptionist/general office job girl in an office full of attorneys when i was 19(the summer i [...]