It was a glorious day here yesterday - sunny, warm, light breeze, and a free afternoon. So how did I spend it? Cleaning out the garage, naturally. Okay, you can send over the Beautiful-Day-Wasted Cops now. Seriously, why would anybody waste a perfect Sunday afternoon working in a dirty, overstuffed garage when they could be …
Author: Melissa
Owner/Designer for The Design Advisor
Life is fragile
Okay, I've been a slug lately and haven't updated my blog. Life just seems to get in the way of what I'm aiming to do, despite my best intentions. But something happen last week that reminded me that, no matter what's on my to-do list or the follow-ups I need to do with my businesses, …
Useless grammatical trivia
Things to ponder about the English language when writing your next novel: Dreamt is the only word that ends in the letters “mt.” No word rhymes with month, orange, or purple. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. The only word that consists of two letters, each …
It's the little things
It's the little things that get you. You'll be going along just fine, busy with your life and all it entails, when something little just reaches up and grabs you. It happened to me last night. I had the pleasure of supporting a local church by attending their weekly Wednesday dinner, a simple meal prepared …
Visiting sister Sally
The rumors are true: it rains in the Pacific Northwest. A lot. In fact, Mother Nature is known to pull unkind tricks on spring-hopeful residents by sending them SNOW on April 1st! Not only does this wreak havoc on daffodils and azalea buds, it really messes up people flying out to visit their sisters. Our …
Remodeling after a flood
In September 2008, the northern part of Munster was waist-high in water. We were the town so often shown on the Chicago news night after night - the lake of water that used to be the Target parking lot, the Taco Bell with water halfway up the walls, the newly-remodeled urgent care facility that was …
Travelogue: Update #4
Well, we made it home from --------------- on Saturday night and the house is still standing. (Thanks for house- and cat-sitting, Collin) I made the first pass at the mountain of mail and newspapers yesterday, and I've spent most of today catching up on personal and business emails. This part of travel is not fun …
Travelogue: Update #3
It's 1:15am and we're sitting in the airport. We fly out tomorrow morning early (wait, it's now this morning) and we decided not to spend the bunch of money needed to spend our last night in the hotel when we'd only be there such a very short time. So, we're actually dozing in the airport. …
Travelogue: Update 2
It's a stunningly beautiful day in the neighborhood today. It's about 8:30am and we're getting ready for a tour of ------------ (insert sight from "mystery location" [ML] here). We've had much cooler weather than anticipated, and we had a yucky day of wind and rain in ------------- (insert cool town in ML) which really stinks …
Travelogue: Update 1
Greetings from the road. We’re several days in on our magical mystery tour and we’re mostly enjoying ourselves. Scott was sick the day before we left with a fever – the doctor determined he had a sinus infection, a touch of bronchitis, and conjunctivitis in both eyes – and I really wasn’t sure we’d be …
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