One Day I Will Rule the World

World Domination, Babies and Middle Eastern Dance

Category: Household

Basement

When we were shopping for this house two years ago, we definitely did that thing of telling our realtor that we were willing to do some fixing up in order to get a deal. But then we ended up buying the house that was really move-in ready. In retrospect, I don’t think it’s that we [...]

Chewing it over

When I’m feeling down, usually the first thing to go is my appetite. And it’s been kind of a low week, so I’ve been kind of fighting with food all week. And also fighting with Ian about food. I mean, not fighting, fighting. Mostly nice (for me) fighting, because it’s totally nice to have someone [...]

Classy Friends

There’s a woman in my dance group who is well enough off that it kind of stands out socially. Her husband is a doctor, and an exceptionally specialized one and she stays home with their two kids. She complains of being so busy – because she volunteers so many places and because each of her [...]

Letters to my blog

It’s been a long time since we talked, eh? Yeah, I’ve been pretty busy. It feels like summer flew by. June disappears every year on the frenzy of getting ready for dance performances in July. And then we promised ourselves we were only going to do maintenance work on the house this summer – no [...]