Update, schmupdate

Hey, remember this? So far: kitchen faucet replaced. New one is pfucking pfantastic. half price books were half priced. $19.50 closet emptied, old shelves ripped out (sledgehammer good), all painted, new storage installed. Storage is a good thing. Bedroom – painted. Needs a second coat, but first? Dinner. (motivation? Santa just keeps coming)

Extreme Makeover, North Pole Edition

Christmas break is the perfect time to tear up perfectly good (yet cluttered) living spaces and get ready to remodel. Or, so I hear. And ‘remodel’ is our own cheapass way of doing it, we can’t afford a real rip-down-the-walls type of remodel, so today we are: Replacing the kitchen faucet, which after a dozen […]

Greetings! Texas Style.

The most inspirational holiday message I’ve seen so far this week has to be all the electronic highway billboards in North Texas (the ones that usually say helpful things like “road construction, next 1,200 miles) that announced the cheerful if not seasonal: DRINK DRIVE GO TO JAIL I wish I had tons of witty stories […]