This morning as I am unpacking even more boxes in our kitchen, Chris comes in a says that he needs to run to Home Depot (otherwise known as “The Place I Go to Feel Superior” 
to get some paint. While he is there he is going to pick up some new plates for our [...]
After 5 days of moving, packing, unpacking, painting, decorating, redecorating, cleaning, complaining, and wallowing in the happiness that is my very first house - I’m baaaack! As I write this, I am sitting in my very new club chair in my very new living room contemplating on the importance of yellow-green verses olive green paint. [...]
This morning I am home packing by myself while Chris is at work. Which explains why I am taking the time out to blog, because no one is here to stop me and say, “Kate! Get off the computer and help me pick up this enormously large box of your shoes!” So this morning, I [...]
There are several things I have discovered while moving these past few weeks. I thought I would share them with you in an effort to dissuade you from moving ever again in your entire life:
1. I am a dirty person - Now, I clean as good as the next person. I vacuum. I wash. I [...]
Moving is the Devil. I’m convinced. Its about as much fun as a root canal. Outside my window right now there is a drunk bum sleeping on a park bench. I’d rather have him do a root canal on me than move. So, we all understand that I can’t stand moving, right? Good. Lets move [...]
Send help! I’ve been eaten alive by moving boxes!
4 days until the Big Move…
What do you do at 5:45 AM? I’ll tell you my new favorite thing to do - wake up and worry. For some reason, my body has decided that there are not enough waking hours in the day to worry as much as I am right now, so it has started waking me up at [...]
In one week I will be moving away from New Haven, and will have to begin driving to work everyday. For the past three years, I have been lucky enough to walk to work everyday because we live so close to campus.
Okay, that’s a lie. We do live incredibly close to campus, but at least [...]
Our upstairs neighbors are having a party tonight. They were really polite about it. They even invited us to come. But then they asked to borrow our coolers, so I’m fairly certain the invite was just a technicality. But I digress.
The problem is not the party. And its not our neighbors. Its that its a [...]
I don’t usually blog about my professional career because of confidentiality. Well, confidentiality and the fact that when I leave my office I like to think about rainbows and butterflies instead of spreadsheets and organizational charts. But I feel that I need to break this rule in order to purge my mind of [...]
