happy stuff.

1.  today i rode my bike to work for the first time since last fall.  i did get mr. happy stuff to come give me a ride home, but that was because it was very cold outside after the sun went down.  the ride into work was very invigorating. 2.  i got my ring back [...]

long time readers may recall my trip to michigan city last year.  that visit was all about quirky antique shops (at least for me.  for most of the party guests, including dear mr. happy stuff, the trip was actually about college basketball.  pah.) but this year, we decided to take the vacation a different direction.  [...]

last night when i left work and walked into the warm evening air, i realized that i really needed to take advantage of this weather and either go for a run or a bike ride.  the problem is momentum.  when i got home i was feeling so …. slow…. that i couldn’t make a decision–run [...]

today i had the blissful pleasure of sewing for several hours this morning and i eagerly dug into the most recent batch of fabric sent for the common threads quilting bee.  lynn sent a very fun set of fabrics, using colors that i don’t normally combine (orange, lime green, grey, brown) but which looked great [...]

this morning when i walked upstairs to take a shower, i saw a little kitty face in an unusual spot.  she was just sitting there, in the tub, looking at me.  and i just had to take a picture.  it just cracked me up too much. today was mr. happy stuff’s birthday, so i took [...]

this one took a long time for some reason, but i’m finally done with it!  the design was inspired by jessica jones of how about orange.  last august, she painted these cute little magnets and i just loved the simple designs, so i chose one to interpret in needlepoint.  i wrote to jessica to ask [...]

i spent last weekend snuggling my new, squishy baby nephew. and hanging out with his big brother. who is obsessed with balls of all kinds.  (can you see the soccer players that he’s watching?) and inducting him into the big sibling club (his parents are both youngest siblings, so he needs someone else to show [...]

when my sister was younger, she was well-known for her love of the game “memory.”  you know, the one with little cardboard squares in pairs that you’d lay out and each person would take a turn flipping two tiles over, hoping to make a match?  she was known to beat adults at this game–and they [...]

yesterday, as i was recovering from a possible migraine (nausea, headache, bleh) mr. happy stuff brought in the mail and told me that i’d gotten a letter.  i opened it and it was a note from a small friend of mine in minnesota.  apparently, according to her mom’s accompanying note, she had gotten some new [...]