You already know that I love my house. If you don’t, you could read one of about ten posts about that. This one is ever-so-slightly different though. Today, I love my house because it lets me have guests. My old apartment had two beds in one bedroom. It was kind of a high-class dorm situation…
It’s a Zoo Out There
A conversation with my roommate yesterday turned from her wedding-planning stress to past stress, and it turns out that we both took homeopathic anti-anxiety medicine when we were little kids. We decided to enjoy the humor in that and ignore the possibility that we were neurotic kids. So in honor of four-year-old Abigail and six-year-old…
Things I’m Looking Forward To: Fall Edition
I might live in Virginia, but in some parts of the world, the end of August means that cool weather is on its way. I could tell you why I love fall every single day and not get tired of it. Here are a few of the things I think about when facing another hot…
Current Anne
Isn’t it strange how certain smells and sounds and even songs can conjure up the same memory every time you run into them? The smell of boxwood plants always reminds me of eating watermelon in the summer at my great uncle’s farmhouse. I’m seven years old again every time I smell them. For the past…
Balance
Everyone struggles to find balance in their lives, right? If it isn’t a question of spending versus saving, it’s whether you’re focusing the right amount of time and energy on work or on family and friends. Every choice impacts some balance in your life. If crying in the parking lot of a car dealership was…
Belly Flops
Not feeling verbose today, so instead of an exposition of my feelings on capital punishment (isn’t that the sort of thing I usually discuss?), I’ll leave you with this video from Cute Overload: My family used to have a corgi, and I can easily imagine her doing the same flop in her younger years. She…
Failure, Rejection, and Other Warm Fuzzies
As you may recall, yesterday was the Day of the List. It turned into a list of 17 items, not 11, and I’ll ruin the surprise ending now. I finished 11 out of 17 items (should have stuck with the original list, right?), and this grand saga is all about item number one. The first…
Small, but valuable. 