As of right now they’re saying it’s heading due west. It never hurts to create a bug out kit, the worst thing that happens in a false alarm is you have to put it all away after the event. I’ve done it several times (voluntarily, fortunately).

FedEx can go to hell. Recently they marked an important business delivery as undeliverable from their hub in the city next door, because the “business was closed.” At 10am on a Wednesday. The business is in my house, and I was alive and well working in the garage with the door open. In the end they couldn’t get their…

Timely, as I’m sitting here listening to the news coverage on a new fire here in San Diego (and San Diego loves to catch on fire).

This sounds like a lovely color combination!

Where’d you find this picture of me at a party?

I had to chuckle because I’ve intentionally selected a slightly lower trim of my next car precisely because of my dog and her damn claws.

I’m still wearing shorts here in San Diego. It’s December and it’s nuts that people are in denial about global warming.

Smear a little peanut butter over the opening to slow the dogs down a bit, too.

Funny enough there’s a succulent variety that absolutely thrives with people who don’t have green thumbs (mostly because they like to be forgotten about): Lithops

Funny enough there’s a succulent variety that absolutely thrives with people who don’t have green thumbs (mostly…

I’ve been busting through Christmas gifts - I’ll post pics next week :)

My company is adopting 15 families for Christmas (each employee takes a family and plans/buys the gifts with a stipend) and it has thawed my icy heart to know how many people are going to feel the love.

If you are struggling with how to “dispose” of unwanted china, I suggest getting in contact with a local mosaic artist. They salivate over the stuff.

This thing is only marginally more powerful than my Fit, which is slow as hell and requires lots of revs to keep up. But Nissan will sell millions of these of course.

If you seriously like the place put in a low bid - the worst that’ll happen is they counter. I sold my condo over the summer and accepted two very low bids out of anxiousness to sell (fell out of escrow on those two because of the damn HOA) so who knows if the seller is in the same boat. I did end up selling over…

I don’t have any sage advice but I wanted you to know you’re not alone. 33 here and I could have written your post.

My ridiculous injury is dislocating my little toe slipping and eating it (barefoot) in mud. I was on a canoe/hike/waterfall tour in Kauai on my 30th birthday and slipped a little bit into the mile long hike. The guide popped my toe back in (after we agreed that the repair method sounded right, lol), taped me up, and I…

This is a good list. I sold my place earlier this year (and moved even earlier than that) and had good address changing luck making a simple Google Keep checklist so I knew who’d been updated and who hadn’t. And, since I plan to move again next year I just have to uncheck that list and it’s ready to go for round two.…

If it’s any reassurance I spent two weeks there and didn’t see a single thing (in the wild) that wanted to kill me.

These are my beasties Carmen and Millie. Somehow we all sleep in relative comfort on a twin bed every night.

It’s just me, my mom, and my brother so instead of a turkey I’m making Ina Garten’s Perfect Roast Chicken (I’ll get turkey at my dad’s house on Saturday, but I prefer chicken). It’s so damn good and I immediately throw the carcass into a crock pot to make Alton Brown’s chicken stock.