When done well, procrastination is high art. The ability to avoid doing truly important things by convincing yourself (and others) that trivial tasks are actually vital is not a light undertaking. It requires focus and commitment to evade working on your taxes by channeling your energy into organizing your pantry shelves thematically (i.e., late night drunk food, quick breakfasts for ... Read More »
Did no one tell me about the aging process, or was I just unwilling to listen? Wrinkles and gray hair are the obvious signs of getting older accumulating life experience. Botox A good facial moisturizer and L’Oréal # 7 respectively can handle both. But there are so many other small signals. Who knew? Not just the face and the butt, ... Read More »
Kids got it right somehow. Don’t you wish you could call someone out with that line, “Liar, liar, pants on fire!” It would be so much easier than the adult-appropriate manner of handling lying, either through calmly confronting the person, or presenting evidence of the lie to a supervisor. There is more joy in the pants on fire version. And those pants ... Read More »
The many joys of semi-communal living include extra hands on deck at all-times for mini-* (and not so mini-**) emergencies at barVino, always having a friend (or six) around for a good laugh or chat and built-in shuffleboard playing partners. The downside? When one person gets sick, everyone gets sick. And starting in December ’12, the cold keeps getting passed ... Read More »
the tree the kitchen gadget! I am a confessed lover of kitchen gadgets. This penchant, much like my love of naps, I get from my mother. It’s all her fault! As I plan my weekdays, I always look for that one hour where I might pretend I am busy ahem, avoid direct eye contact with the dog who wants to go for ... Read More »
I tend to forget to take pictures. I’ve been known to show up at children’s recitals and graduations without a camera. (Kindergarten graduation really isn’t graduation, right?) The smartphone technology helps you feels less the lousy parent idiot, but even then, there are times when I prefer to kick back and enjoy a scene, never once thinking to record it ... Read More »
Perhaps the end of the Mayan calendar is just the turning of the page, a new chapter. It will be winter solstice when you read this and, if you’re a small business owner in New York State, the date that the last quarterly sales tax of 2012 is due. But as I sit in my living room, watching the snow ... Read More »
[youtube id=”Hajwg6kxpQ4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] How awesome and timeless is the Charlie Brown Christmas special? I remember waiting for it every year as a child, laughing at Charlie Brown’s tree, and at Lucy’s relentless pursuit of Schroeder. There are classic lines in the special, as well as scenes, themes and music that is not replicated elsewhere. I especially appreciated the piano ... Read More »
Too much effing Pinterest, a bottle of wine1 and a night “off” from the restaurant led to a series of mini-projects being start and actually (shockingly) finished last Thursday night. There are loads of things that I’d like to do to the apartment. Such as this. And this. Oh, and this. However, none of them are actually financially (or spatially) ... Read More »
Prior to moving to the Adirondacks, my family always bought their Christmas trees from a local Christmas tree farm (particularily, in the latter years of our Delaware residency, from Loblolly Acres). But for the last two years, my roommate and I have gone trekking through the woods for our Christmas trees and evergreen boughs. It is something I look forward ... Read More »
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