My Dog is Chelsea

Hey there, Internet.
There’s but a week left in February and yet this is my first post of 2011. And it’s a picture post at that. Shame on me, the writer who never has time to write anything that isn’t for a client.
[Well... not entirely true. Check out my new food blog: Remember the Pudding.]
Behold the [...]

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Not that this should come as any surprise whatsoever, but being a homeowner is expensive.
I love my house and I’m glad I bought it and I simply LOVE not having a landlord calling me up to yell at me for things I didn’t do, like the time she found a microwave by the garbage and [...]

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Here’s the thing about “easy three-step” processes that makes me start screaming expletives while I’m installing a showerhead: very few things actually ever really ARE three steps.
Take toast-making, for instance. Here’s the easy three-step version:

Take out a piece of bread.
Put in toaster.
Remove from toaster.

Easy, yes. But does it make excellent toast? Quite the contrary. Here’s [...]

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I’m not very good at fixing things.
This inability has brought me to tears on more than one occasion. Nothing is more frustrating than reading “THREE EASY STEPS!” on the package of your new Venetian blinds and then failing to  progress beyond step one. To my credit, installing blinds actually takes about eight steps that have [...]

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