I finished the desk!
Here’s the desk after an ungodly amount of sanding and scraping:
Let the finishing process begin! I can’t begin to describe the joy I felt when I saw that the stain was soaking into the wood, rather than beading up (which would have happened if I wasn’t successful in scraping and sanding away [...]
That’s it. Molly and I are on a diet.
Back in Nashville, when a friend started calling Molly a hippo, I didn’t think anything of it. When we went on our honeymoon and the dog sitter reported to us that she had started feeding Molly a scant cup of dog food — rather than a heaping [...]
College students go back to school this weekend, which means its time for me to start working again.
So far this week, I have installed new dimmers on every single switch in the house, designed my wedding photo album, put up a gallery of picture frames in the hallway, hung (hanged? I should probably know this) [...]
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: We got married!
No, seriously. I almost forgot. You know that feeling you get in the middle of winter, when the wind is blustering around you and you haven’t been able to feel you toes since Thanksgiving, and you just can’t seem to remember how it felt to stand in that [...]
… and as turned on his iPod and opened the door, I heard him start to sing along to the music:
“Popular! I’m gonna be pop-UUU-lar!”
That’s right. From Wicked.
We’ve been together for seven odd years, and I don’t realize until ten days before our wedding that I am marrying a gay man.
