Is there anyone out there who actually likes dusting? I tell you–I’ll do a vacuum run, wash used dishes as soon as a meal is over and even scrub down the toilet, but it takes a rarer burst of energy to pick up the dust rag. Maybe because it forces you to re-find all those [...]
Baseball in late October is just good, even if you’re not particularly a sports person. There are the bright stadium lights creating an intensely lit playing field–remarkable really, especially if you happen to drive up to one from a distance in a darkened, fall evening. A glow of Things-Are-Going-On-Here. There’s the appreciation of the motion [...]
Alright, I’ll admit it. Installing cable, especially with access to HD channels, is really worth it. Especially when you get to toggle between a super crisp Game 1 of the National League series of the Phillies vs. the Dodgers and scenes from Ratatouille on Disney. A just-heard bit of animated wisdom from the movie: ‘Not [...]
Almost reminds you of that verse about building that foundation out of wood, grass and stubble, right? But my ‘earthy’ list today was all about getting work done around the house. Granted, it was originally intended to be three-apartment resident working day (‘three-apartment resident” being the most salient modifier), but for more than a few [...]
It was pointed out to me that I had all my meals out today– breakfast at the local diner in Roslindale, a quick lunch at a Panera before reaching the furniture and mall zone that is Natick and a dinner of Vietnamese pho at a good place in Dorchester just past the Campbell Resource Center. [...]
Ok, so it’s part responsibility and part the draw of being part of a longstanding Labor Day tradition–doing a bit of lawn care (and eventually getting to the best part of it all.. summer grilled food). Being away for a good chunk of the summer in my travels to Southeast Asia, it was definitely my [...]
It’s a rather perfect day outside right now… minimal humidity, bright sunshine and temperature in the low 70s. Really should be out in it, stretching out the biking legs (which have quickly turned into non-biking legs), but there’s still time for that. It’s something to consider that in an hour or so, the procession moving [...]
Just thinking that a week ago at this moment, I was perched uncomfortably in my airplane seat (thankfully, an aisle one– thank you Queenie of Feti travel!) somewhere over the Pacific. Boston-bound originating from a Ho Chi Minh City to Hong Kong leg and by way of a Chicago stopover. Probably looking at the watch [...]
With the tireless and gracious assistance of friend C, I bought an 8 x 10 oriental rug for my second bedroom yesterday evening– well, I didn’t exactly buy it yet as the folks at Gregorian rugs (who apparently are pretty well-known and respected throughout New England) let me take two of these things home at [...]
Home Gets a Little More Comfortable
In a word? Ahhh… (as I settle into a much more comfortable couch) This weekend, I moved the temporary living room couch, one that I had been using for a bit too long, into the side room (as originally intended), and the furniture delivery people brought in the couch that I ordered nearly a month [...]