I’m pretty excited about something new on the interwebs: Skillshare. Turns out there are all of these online classes (webinars, if you will) that are pre-recorded and laid out for you to complete at your leisure. Sure, there’s a fee, but it’s a small fee. The classes I’m most excited about are in the Food…
Category: Things That Make Me Happy
Different Garden Adventures
Saw this yesterday, liked it a lot.
Lego Masterpieces
This isn’t “news” in the traditional sense of new and interesting to the world, but it’s news to me. Did you know that there are Lego versions of famous paintings? What?! I saw this rendition of Van Gogh’s self-portrait for the first time today and have been pretty excited about it ever since: Thanks, Marco…
Finally Friday
I know it’s been a short work week for me so far (fifth work day coming up tomorrow), but it feels like it’s been a long work week. I’m sure you understand. As a result of said week, I’m daydreaming my way through lunch pretty seriously. One of my two excellent college roommates and I…
Long-distance Peanut
We’re on a short mid-week trip today, and the morning included some reading time at a cute coffee shop. (Color me happy.) The real prize was that they had a painting of Peanut on the wall. True, they got his snout all wrong, but they got the spirit of the tail-chasing very right. There are…
Coffee Art
Our coffeemaker had another accident yesterday. No big news, but I thought I might have had a mental breakdown when I saw it, because my first thought was, “That’s pretty.” That isn’t usually even in the neighborhood of how I feel about messes. See what you think: Okay, not convinced at this point? It’s brown…
Strawberry Saturday
Scott is smart about things like growing seasons, so he proposed yesterday that we make a quick trip down the road for some “pick-your-own” strawberries. It turns out that picking your own food is really fun, especially if you just finished a long day at a very indoor type of job. Also, other people are…
Small, but valuable. 