Oh my gosh, have you seen the adorably mod Orla Kiely collection of housewares at Target? I’m absolutely drooling over the blue flower dishware set, and may have to find a set of these orange flowered glasses.
Granted, these would match absolutely nothing in my kitchen or dining room, but they’re so cheery that I really don’t care.
If the interwebs are to be believed, these are selling out super fast at local Target stores. I may have to make a run this weekend if I have a chance at finding any left on the shelves.
Remember how I wrote that I’ve been taking my coffee to work more often? I still am, and I’m still loving the convenience of it. I’m still loving my fabulous travel mug (which I can’t find a version of online anywhere – if I do, I’ll definitely link to it!).
One thing I would like to point out – my fabulous awesome travel mug is leak-proof, which means it has a rubber seal to keep the contents from spilling all over the place.
Imagine my surprise when I realized I could remove the rubber ring and clean out coffee, milk and sugar that had built up underneath it. Yup. That’s an important lesson I thought I’d pass along. Yikes.
Since we are proud car-owners after 6 long car-less years, I’m wondering if it would be beneficial to take a course in car mechanics and repair. Growing up and even into my young adult years, I could always ask my Dad if a particular noise was harmless or worth taking to the shop. Plus, since we’re new in town, until we find a mechanic we can trust it might be helpful to know a little bit more about the car other than where the fuel goes and where the wiper fluid goes.
I don’t mean I want to be rebuilding my own engine. I just think it might be worth learning how to change an air filter and get a basic understanding of where all of the parts are and what they do. I’m going to check the local learning centers to see if they offer anything like that – the money spent might be worth it in the long run.
It’s back! I love, love, love the Amazing Race, and last night’s premiere episode was fantastic. There was airport drama, which I find always bogs down the fun. And yet, transportation timetables played a key role (remember, kids, it’s not so much important how soon a train leaves a station as how quickly it arrives at its destination!).
Plus – rolling cheese! Bungee jumping! Yodelers! All of this, plus the bickering couple got sent home first! Yowza, that was a fun start.
It looks like it’s going to be a great season. Sunday nights just got fun again.
I have had the same Fossil watch for about 8 years now. I love it. It’s the only piece of jewelry I wear with any consistency.
Eight years of daily wear means this watch has gone through a lot, and has stopped working on more than one occasion. Each time, I’ve sent it to Fossil’s repair shop in Texas, thinking that it is probably the last time I’ll see it. Yet each time, the watch is returned to me in a timely fashion, in great shape.
If you have a Fossil watch that has petered out, I highly recommend sending it in for repairs. For a small fee (about $28, including shipping) they’ll more than likely get it working like new.
Now that we have a car after six long carless years (living in Chicago means you can rely solely on public transportation – Louisville, not so much) it’s been a bit of an adjustment.
After a few weeks of cursing the “crappy wipers” we finally went to the auto store and picked up a new pair of windshield wipers. I cannot believe the difference! I’m much more confident driving in rain and snow now that I can actually see through a streak-free windshield.
I have a feeling that the decay of windshield wipers happens so slowly, that you don’t really realize how bad they’ve gotten until you get a new pair. I don’t know what the conventional wisdom is on how often they should be changed, but since it’s such a small investment, I’m thinking that it’s something we’ll be doing every fall before the snow flies.
Here’s something I can only kinda sorta recommend.
During our huge ice storm a couple of weeks ago, our car got stuck in an icy patch in our parking lot. We dug it out as best we could, but the tires just spun on the ice underneath the car. It needed some sort of traction to get past the ice.
We didn’t have any sand or salt available, so we used what we did have: clumping kitty litter. We poured some behind each tire, and voila! Enough traction was formed to get our car out of the spot.
The only problem is that now that the weather had warmed up and the snow is gone, there are four piles of sopping kitty litter in our parking space. Which we invariably drive over each time we go in and out of our spot, and in which I’ve stepped in on more than one occasion.
We don’t have access to a hose to wash down the piles, so we’re just waiting for a good, strong, heavy rain to clean out the mess. In the meantime, at least no one is parking in our spot!
What I’m about to say isn’t news to anyone, but it’s something I had to figure out for myself.
Brewing your own coffee at home, and bringing it to work in a thermos-type coffee mug is WAY cheaper than buying coffee everyday.
I know! There is absolutely nothing extraordinary or revolutionary about that statement. It makes complete sense.
I’ve been buying my coffee every day at work from the “Starbucks” stand in the cafeteria of my building. Some days it would be a latte, some days just plain coffee. But doing that 4 to 5 times a week really adds up!
Now, I just put some coffee on to brew while I eat my cereal in the morning. Then, before I leave, I pour some in my travel mug, and head out the door. The coffee stays hot during my commute, and I’ve paid pennies on the dollar!
I feel a little foolish that it took me this long to figure this out. I was just a sucker for those white paper sippy cups, I guess. Now I’m a sucker for my silver metal sippy cup.
