Posts by: amanda

Celebrities? No, cel-HERB-rities.

By On August 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

We’ve been wanting to buy our own herbs to use in our daily cooking for quite some time now, and since our hiking trip to Shenandoah had to be postponed due to weather, we figured now would be as good a time as any. We wanted to use a galvanized tub to plant the new [...]

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Egg in the Basket

By On August 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I have found that, above all else, the key to a truly successful relationship is LEVERAGE. I know what you might be thinking. “Really Amanda? Leverage? Are you sure it’s not trust, great communication or an electrified connection!?” No no, it’s leverage. You see, if you find that your significant other has been stepping it [...]

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BAMBOOzled

By On August 8, 2011 · 72 Comments

There’s just something about snuggling up on the couch with a glass of wine in hand as you gaze upon the TV, happily engaged in a movie or guilt-worthy reality TV show, the latter of which I really have no idea about since Javi has yet to get cable in this place. That’s right people. [...]

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Gray Doesn’t Have to Be Dreary

By On July 29, 2011 · 1 Comment

I had friends coming from Chicago for a visit a couple weekends ago and was in a scramble to get the new place ‘visitor ready.’ The living room was pretty much complete, the hallways had done away with the awful sky blue and in its place a nice crisp ultra white paint was freshly applied. [...]

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Office Space

By On July 14, 2011 · 2 Comments

What do you get when you have two extreme nerds living under the same roof? A lot of fighting over who gets to use the desk for their nerd stuff. I want to use it to comfortably expand my mind by browsing the happenings on the ‘interwebz’ (also known as may-jah facebook or twitter stalking) [...]

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Kitchen Bar.. but not that kind..

By On July 10, 2011 · 73 Comments

I’ve never been one for cooking. Up until recently (and by recently I mean 8 days ago), my repertoire of dishes didn’t go much beyond buttered noodles and grilled cheese sandwiches. So naturally, I didn’t think I’d really care much about a kitchen, but alas, miracles truly do exist. It’s like having a kitchen of [...]

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The good, the bad, and the downright icky

By On July 8, 2011 · 1 Comment

Got a little behind on the blog with the whole hoopla of flying back from Cali and then moving out a mere 1.5 days later. Defying all odds, however, I managed to keep my cool, get annoyed and grouchy only 2 or 3 times (hey, for me that’s good so no judging here!) and not [...]

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