During one of our recent trips to IKEA to outfit our new house in the latest and greatest in window coverings we succumbed to an impulse buy. IKEA makes those impulse buys so easy. I see a brightly colored dish and I just have to have it. Or I see the brightly colored napkins and [...]
Babboo and I met my older brother Biff for sushi last night. It was a good evening stuffed full of raw fish, seaweed, chopsticks and sticky rice. There was also some good conversation. Although I do admit that most sentences started with me saying “you’ll never believe who I found on facebook” [...]
Things Babboo and I did last night while The King was away for the evening (fulfilling some church responsibilities):
Danced to the Mamma Mia! soundtrack
Sang along to the Mamma Mia! soundtrack
Baked cookies
Watched “Gossip Girl” and “Project Runway”
Hung [...]
We had some friends in town the last few days, which means we spent the past two nights showing them the greatness that Seattle has to offer.
“Oh look at the Space Needle! Cool, isn’t it?”
“Seattle has a huge Old Navy. Yippee!”
“And a Gap!”
You know the usual touristy thing that people do while visiting [...]
An E-mail thread between my younger sister, who lives in Utah, and me yesterday:
Sister: Do you have tomorrow off from work?
Isabel: Why would I have a random Thursday off?
Sister: My husband has it off. I thought maybe you and The King would too.
Isabel: (confused at this point.) Yeah, we don’t have it off. [...]
I heard you wanted to come over to the new house to check it out. If you want to come over, make sure you call first. That way I’ll be sure to meet you down in the driveway. The front porch hasn’t been built yet, so you can’t actually access our front door. I’d have [...]