Category: Home Life

My coworker went to a conference and brought me back this delicious Dominican chocolate. I suspect it wasn’t really to be nice and it was because he got it and then realized that it was 72% dark and thought that was disgusting and had to offload it on someone. I was happy to oblige.  …

We moved into our house two summers ago and have slowly updated the yard. It wasn’t bad when we moved in, just a little 80’s with the lava rock and ugly bushes. It’s been a process, one that I realized gets worse before it gets better. Last year our backyard died, which is a long…

Five years. We’ve climbed the great wall; lost glasses in the Atlantic; hiked Mayan ruins; ate weird food; watched a lot of Seinfeld; rode elephants in the jungle; taken countless naps; bought a house; got “real” jobs; met Mickey Mouse; slept with wild monkeys above our heads; been on a live TV set; shared lots…

Maybe everyone already knew what “Auld Lang Syne” meant, but I had to look it up on New Years because I didn’t know. A rough translation according to Wikipedia is “for old times sake”. I thought that was fitting. Our New Years Eve was spent being awesome: we went out to dinner and then came…

I was just uploading some pictures to the computer and found these. I couldn’t not post them. Shaka’s gas station decided to have a camel come hang out there for a few hours as advertisement (random!)  when I found I about the camel I couldn’t get to the car fast enough, I was so excited.…

Best four years of my life. Love you more than ever. Happy anniversary, Dougie.  

I’ll be the first to admit that had I not gotten married there was  big chance  that I would have become a weird cat-lady. Then again, maybe you can still be a weird cat-lady even if you’re under the age of 40 and married. I guess that’s up for debate. Either way, as soon as…

Doug wanted some uniformity on the “people” section of our company website. After trying to digitally change portraits into stipples using Photoshop, he decided to commission the real deal; they just didn’t look quite the same when done digitally. He wanted the artist that does the iconic stipple portraits for the Wall Street Journal. He…

My boss came to me with an interesting proposal: I was to contact Sam Tsui, the youtube sensation, and see if I could schedule him for a private concert. His wife’s birthday was coming up in three months and he had some tricks up his sleeve for the biggest surprise birthday bash I’ve ever witnessed.…

After much deliberation, we did it. We bought a house. We’ve been moved in just over a month now and we love it. We somehow managed to get even closer to our place of work. We had a 3 minute commute before from our apartment to work and we literally cut it in half to…