So! Meal planning is back. Allowing us to rely on a less elevated fare for a short while helped get us through the home purchase (very stressful) and move. Now that we’re here and largely settled (still need our shed delivered and built so we can get the “garage stuff” out of our living room,…
Live from the City of Angels
I’m writing this from a giant fluffy nest of pillows and futon in my room on the eleventh floor of a hotel in downtown Los Angeles. I’m here for a couple of days, celebrating the marriage of one of my favorite people, a law school bestie. I flew out yesterday morning, billing time on the…
A Beautiful Mess – Part Two
I woke up Tuesday and went to work. (I worked Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, with some major, major briefing going on – thank heavens I’d done that 13 days working in a row and gotten most of it done ahead of time. I did manage, even with Crazy Brief Times, to get home before 6 each day,…
A Beautiful Mess – Part One
We. Are. In! And boy was it a Herculean effort to get here. It involved a bat bite and ill-timed rabies vaccinations, an ER trip after a household accident plus an urgent care trip for my hypochondriac 8 year old, two different move days, and *of course* three major briefs due. But we’re in the…
Around the Town
I worked essentially a full day yesterday – I had a late start, around lunchtime, but worked straight through the day, packing it in at 8pm. The timing was right to wander a few blocks down the street and check out White Linen Night, which was in full swing by that point. Many cities have…