I am having a serious love affair with Pinterest & houses.

Since the house is on the market, I cannot stop dreaming about our next home.

(You know how I like to jump the gun.)

I spend my free time perusing the houses available in the neighborhoods we love, calculating mortgages & downpayments, wishing that our house would sell RIGHT THIS INSTANT BECAUSE DOUG! COME LOOK AT THIS HOUSE!  & then I hop on Pinterest & decorate the entire thing in my head.

Of course, my head doesn’t have a budget in mind which is a very lovely thing when I’m pinning Anthropologie & Amy Butler fabrics.

I’m in this awful stage right now of having so many ideas & dreams for decorating, but not wanting to “waste” them on the house we are selling.  Especially since the goal is to keep our current house as sparkling clean & sparse as possible. 

Sell, house.  Sell!

 
 
 
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The writer’s block: It’s not you.

It’s me.

Well, me & Mr. Darcy because I started reading the smut sequal to Pride & Prejudice, “Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife” & I’ve been pouring over pages & lovingly attacking my husband.

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BLAME MR. DARCY.

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(also, these are the books I currently have my nose in.)

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isn’t my new rug mug mandie sent me just darling?  even the name “rug mug” totally kills me with the cute.

Welcome to the most random & head-scratching post ever.

I have a long history with public bathrooms.

There was that time I clogged an industrial toilet & then there was this & then this.  & I realized that I totally forgot to show you my new shiny office bathroom!  Shut up, you know you’ve been on pins & needles for this.

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So nice, right?  Four stalls!

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You can’t see the person’s shoes under the stall doors or sides, so bathroom activities can be all ninja-like.  Nobody has to know it was you with the coffee-smelling pee.

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Naturally, the risk you run with this set-up is the inability to toss a wad of paper under the partition to an unsuspecting & paper-less patron.  But they take care of this by providing ample supplies.

You are so welcome for this.

Reality in the most magical time of year.

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This is real-life, friends.  Please notice the drooping garland, random golf clubs, & the pizza boxes on the kitchen table where we’re using the formal dining room chairs because oh yeah, I sold our kitchen chairs & haven’t replaced them yet.  Also the Matchbox cars, strategically placed to ensure that my kid’s first real words to anyone in public will be “DAMN IT ALL TO HELL.”

& so begins the week of yuletide cheer!

 

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A nod to my trendy gals.

I want to be like you.  I really, really do.  But I have a confession.

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I started noticing it in pictures, first.  Then the mirror.  It’s becoming more blatantly obvious every single day but I feel like I need confess that my new hipster status is not because I’m listening to She & Him on repeat, but rather because my bank account is dangerously dry these days.

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Stealing is for losers. Copyright 2011 Beth Anne Ballance