With Halloween less than a week away and only the barest hint of costume inspiration in sight, I thought I’d share the stokes of decorating genius that Billy and I have enjoyed over the past several days. We have a massive box of decor — almost if not all accumulated by Billy since freshman year [...]
Posts Tagged ‘house’
24 Oct
a sunday person
Because this is the sort of person I am, I stayed in bathrobe until two o’clock. I had a bowl of leftover Chinese take-out for lunch. I am on my second replay of Candy Crowley’s “State of the Union” on CNN. It is dreary outside, but rather warm, and I should probably go for a [...]
14 Oct
painting, in brief
Our house needs some accent walls. That’s what Billy and I concluded several months ago. Several weeks ago, we sent feeler emails to a couple local painters. And a few hours ago, the final coats of egg shell dried. Blue in the bedroom, red in the office. Soothing where you sleep, invigorating where you work! [...]
6 Oct
despite my best efforts
I am not a gardener. I am no gardener. I am a very bad gardener. I am constantly digging up (and pointlessly replacing) dead basil plants on my kitchen window sill. I love fresh basil, and even remember to water it, since – hey!, it’s indoors! But somehow the little bushes don’t stand up to [...]
22 Sep
my morning in pictures
It’s just the big house and me. And I make that big a mess of sheets on my own. That brown thing’s the sleepy shirt I am “leasing” for the next . . . well, one night, actually. It smells nice. Tomorrow I’m going to New York. But that’s not part of the story. When [...]
21 Sep
in which i “mea culpa”
Hi there. It’s been a while! I’m really sorry kiddos! I’ve been busy in the past month plus. Also, I’m an airhead. Please don’t leave me? Immediately after rocking the GREs (kindly see last post), I visited my boyfriend in California. I was a real brat about leaving. Leaving the incredible food that I’m so [...]
3 Aug
spotted: iowa making waves
Iowa’s been in the news over here lately! Have you spotted it? First instance: The Princeton Review came out with its annual student rankings of undergraduate colleges and universities, and guess who was #9? Guess who was #7 in the category called, encouragingly, “Students Study Least”? The University of Iowa. A dubious set of honors, [...]
7 May
the last week’s last day
OH my GOSH. Has it been forever or WHAT. I do, however, have some fairly (I think?) good excuses for the long absence, namely: we’ve been undoing the house for a summer alone since at least this time last week. B is winging west for a very fancy externship in California, and I’m heading east [...]
9 Dec
BLIZZARD 2009 1.0
We woke up to this wonderland this morning: In case you haven’t heard — which would be hard, since CNN is reporting on the Midwest winter storm nonstop, which is one of the only times I’ve seen Iowa on the real news — it’s blizzarding here!!!!!!! The snow started Monday night and left us a [...]
5 Oct
good fences make good neighbors, especially during football season
We’ve been busy, busy bees here at iowasthinking over the past five days — indeed so busy that we almost didn’t notice Real Fall sneaking up under the cover of rain last week and setting up permanent camp. Trees have been changing color for at least a month in these parts, but this is Real [...]
