I don’t think I can say it enough. I love Ikea. With the exception of about three things, our entire house is has been furnished by the good company of Sweden. Some of my favorite new purchases include this lamp and these chairs. In red, of course.
I bought this book: Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional by Simon Collison with a gift card over the summer. It’s fantastic! I am a complete novice with this sort of thing, but I’m learning quickly thanks to this book. Thanks to Collison, I’ll never forget to top center my background image again.
If you like playing with color and color palettes, you’ll love this site - Colour Lovers. I’m playing with a blog redesign right now and it’s the perfect place to create a palette. Fun!
Happy New Year! I think of you both often. Have made the transition to vegetarianism. Maybe vegan one day. It’s a process. I love the challenge to be creative and the health benefits as well. Come to Austin and visit me sometime.
Karen
Okay, so I am coming to this way late, but I just wanted to commiserate on the Money Pit situation. We are considering selling our house next year just to avoid putting in a new roof and furnace. I know I don’t want to stay in this house for another five or so years, so I know we’d never get our money back (we’d have to finance those repairs). Well, there are other reasons why we want to sell but those are big ones. As it stands now we have a huge To Do list just to get the house ready to show. Ugh.
GREAT letter! But I was shocked to see the notebook paper with FIVE HOLES! At a Catholic school? No wonder you Mount Saint Joe’s/Joe Paradox chicks were completely out of control!
I would still love to do a little “wax on wax off” with Ralph Macchio.
Last night we discovered that the water leak has been continuous. What we thought was a leak that happened only when the shower was turned on was really a constant leak from an elbow joint. We figured this out when the towel we put down over the carpet-tack strip to protect the kitties from walking on it was soaked after a few hours.
While I was at work, enjoying the last day of school with my students, the Plumber Fairy came and did magic. Look!
This is the wall in our hallway, partially torn out, to locate the source of the leak.
This is the wet, creaky, weakened subfloor.
This is the closet directly under the hallway, which held all of our coats, luggage, and my guitar.
Another hole was cut in our bedroom closet and more will be cut in our kitchen ceiling.
Isn’t this fun? I’m optimistic that this will all be fixed soon. Hopefully this is the last of the major problems we will encounter and we can put this entire boring drama behind us!
