happy stuff.

so yesterday, mr. happy stuff forwarded me information about “restaurant week.”  i hadn’t heard about it before, but apparently, for one week in january, restaurants across town (and generally pretty high end ones) offer a 3-course meal for $25 per person.  the menu is usually limited, but we were both thrilled to see the best [...]

ok, that blog title was in honor of my nephew who, over christmas, had chosen that syllable as his favorite and babbled it frequently and sounded a lot like that title (or, if you prefer, “die, die, die”).  i also chose this title because i’ve finally fixed my bathmats!  i have two sets of bathmats–one [...]

so there are some new things on my walls that i’ve hinted at, but now i finally have some (gray, wintry day, indoor) photos to show you! first, a print that i bought from modern art everyday last fall. i finally got it into a frame and now it has pride of place on my [...]

i finally had the day i’ve been craving. it snowed most of the day and i didn’t have to go to work. or leave the house for any reason. i played with the circular saw and made some crude acrylic “frames” for some art (i’ll post photos later this week sometime) and only had a [...]

i am happy to say (with just a little bit of caution and wood-knocking) that the sporty me is back!  i was forced to take a hiatus last fall due to a running injury (likely due to too-old shoes–apparently 3 years is a shockingly long time to use a single pair of running shoes.  my [...]

fog drip, drip, melty crepes ham, cheese and avocado one with chocolate, banana and nutella, one with lemon and sugar windowsill still life beef and beer stew (adapted from rachel ray’s magazine) and a thick slice of homemade bread.

there are so many nice little happy things that have happened recently that have not yet made their way to my blog. partially because i wish that i had a photo to go with each one and sometimes i just don’t. so here’s one photo and lots of other little stories for you to enjoy. [...]

the seems:  the glitch in sleep by john hulme and michael wexler another bid to try to write a “hot series”… this one is about the secret world that controls everything in the world we know–weather patterns, sleeping, our five senses… everything.  they recruit “fixers” from the world to repair problems because they have a [...]