One Step Ahead

I heard an ad on the radio yesterday advertising some kind of festival, and they said to come see all these forgettable items, and ended wit...

I think I'm going to open a pawn shop and make millions of dollars like the guys on Pawn Stars. Do you even watch it? IT'S THE BES...

I have been marginally obsessed with my ancestry lately, ever since Steven introduced me to ancestry.com. And do you know what I discovered...

Some have called me a local hero. Some have called me a "Bellebrity" (get it? Bellingham celebrity?) Pet safety is no joke, my f...

Dear Blog Friendles, Currently, I do not have regular internet access, which is why I cannot blog. I tried blogging from my iPhone.... very...

Answer: Not much. That might be why I haven't been the blogger queen you all know me to be. I haven't been having particularly inte...

So right now, I am employed as a nanny. And I love it. I have so much fun with these kids, it's ridiculous. This child in the sunglass...

Because I would get the gold medal. And if I had a gold medal, I would hang it in my living room. And I would gaze at it all the time and ...

It was the best 48 hours I've continuously been awake. That is a real, REAL Olympic gold medal around Evan Lycasek's neck. We were...

before my dreams come to life. Ryan, my mom, Heidi and Lisa are all sitting in my living room right now. We are watching the Men's Figu...

Folks, tomorrow is the day. The day I have been waiting for since I was a fetus. It is the day I am going to go to the Olympic Games. I mig...

I want these mittens. I love them. I covet them, which is disobeying one of the ten commandments. But I can't help it. Look at the l...

Steven has been teaching me to cook. Here are some meals I can now prepare. Probably. I can probably prepare. Chicken and dumplings Fajit...

were awesome. My favorite part was when the magical giant polar bear emerged from no where. I think he is a relative of Snowy. Other parts ...

THE OLYMPICS START TODAY. The Olympics are my favorite thing. I am inappropriately excited about the Olympics. I know many of you are wonde...

I lost my favorite water bottle for 2 weeks. But then I found it in a bag in my living room. Plus some other stuff happened also.

Jodi nudged me in this direction and I had thought of it before, but had never fully considered how much I would probably LOVE IT. I'm ...

Adam is dying. He needs to make it til Christmas, but will he? I am giving him the attention and care that I thought he needed, but will ...

I was sleeping peacefully last night and then semi-woke up because my face itched. When I went to scratch it, I didn't realize that my ...

I have many presents to wrap. Here is a sampling of the wrapping I have done: Ricky thinks that it is his duty as my cat to help me wrap pr...

Okay, so Phase 4A really ruffled my feathers. I have had a hard time recovering from the Window Decorating Disaster. I kept trying to star...

There was a poster outside for a lost dog and it was sad. But only for a second, because then I was like MAYBE I could find that lost anima...

I am very excited about the Community Toy Store . I requested this year to be the official shopper when money donations came in. I was gra...

I decided to decorate our front window. It was much harder than I had anticipated. First of all, my window cling "Believe" is mu...

but I've been having super bizarre dreams lately. For example, I dreamed the other day that I was a teenage mouse living in a WW2 intern...

Rachel and I decided to get our tree today. This is the first time I have purchased a live tree on my own. THE FIRST TIME! It's like t...

Today, with a gift card I got from Baron and Cristina to Trader Joe's, I bought Rachel and I both 99 cent advent calendars. Phase 2: Ad...

So I got out my Christmas decorations bin last night to see what I had to work with in converting my home into a Christmas Empire. I starte...