So after a look at our summer schedules, we saw that the only free weekend we both had to potty train our daughter before she starts preschool in the Fall was this long one. The process has been both harder and easier than we thought it would be. Easier because it’s basically cleaning up accidents [...]

You know what I love? Dubious talents. I’m talking about those talents that one doesn’t work to cultivate, those talents that others don’t necessarily acknowledge as  talents, but when it comes right down to it, definitely are. I bring this up, because we had something confirmed on Saturday that we’ve been suspecting for awhile now: [...]

I don’t want to call my favorite movie of the year yet, since most of the Oscar fare won’t be released until the latter months of 2011 and I have a short attention span. But BRIDESMAIDS is definitely my favorite movie of the year so far. Here are five things that I just loved about [...]

This BBC News article about astronomers identifying 54 potentially habitable planets got me to thinking, and what I ended up concluding was this: I’m not a pioneer. I won’t be in the first wave of people that travel to these new planets. I’ll never be the first person to test out a totally new technology. [...]

After deciding to move to a more desirable neighborhood (read: not a suburb), we had to give up a few amenities, like our guest room/home gym in the basement. Yet, we were both also determined to continue losing weight. So despite having never managed to have made full use of a gym membership before we [...]

I don’t know why I always feel the need to cite past blogs that I’ve done whenever I recover a subject, even if that blog was years and years ago, but for whatever reason I do. So I’m just going to say, for all fifty of you that used to read my personal blog back [...]

YOUR HIGHNESS Other than the blatant sexism, woman-based ageism, Danny McBride’s general mien and delivery, rape jokes (hilarious!), and the ridiculous amounts of gay jokes (attn: straight male comedians – this meme is way past it’s due date, please start coming up with fresh material already), YOUR HIGHNESS was … okay. But James Franco and [...]

It seemed that I kept on reading about this indie movie, SUPER, starring Rainn Wilson (best known as Dwight Schrute from THE OFFICE) and Ellen Page (a now-perennial favorite of mine). But I hadn’t bothered to watch the trailer or even read any of the SUPER-related posts, so when my husband asked me if I [...]

We live in a culture where dropping 40 pounds is supposed to solve all your problems, make you feel like you can do anything, and moreover make you feel GREAT! But I’ve been 40 pounds lighter for almost three months now, and while I welcome the extra energy that comes from being at my pre-baby weight, [...]

Maybe it was b/c I shared a room with my sister until the age of of 13. But as long as I can remember having a room of my own, I have much preferred a closed door. If I’m going to be in a room for more than fifteen minutes, I close the door. I [...]