The World Surrounding Me

Has the cupcake-bakery phenomenon hit your town yet? This seems to be a growing trend in Austin, and I like it! We tried one place down on South Congress a few months ago (they make cupcakes & serve them out on an old airstream trailer). Today, I tried another: Cupprimo – which is located just [...]

Just to let it be known that it’s WAY TOO HOT outside right now! I got out of the office (needed a break from the huge project I’m working on) and did a little shopping (when my brain feels broken as it did this afternoon, shopping somehow is a good escape). I nearly melted on [...]

Things to Try: Pie-in-a-jar. Maybe this is a way to make pie and not pig out on it all ourselves (or have it turn nasty before it can be consumed). Revised iPhone. Of course, I’ve heard nothing about the monthly fee for data-transfer being reduced, so I can’t see myself getting this anytime soon, but [...]

Over the weekend, I finished re-reading The Silver Chair and The Horse and His Boy. Both were enjoyable and easy reads, but I think I enjoyed Horse more this time thru. In it, Aravis and Shasta, two children from Calormen (a country south of Narnia) take an epic journey that includes escaping from a lion, [...]

Seeing Prince Caspian in the theater recently renewed my interest in re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia. Other than the (admittedly odd) choice to read The Last Battle first (why – well, because it was the one we had a copy of in the house before ordering a new set), I’ve been reading them in the [...]

Yesterday, a major milestone happened at our house: all traces of clowns were removed. No, we don’t have a clown-phobia, but we were tired of the cute clown border that’s been up in our office (apparently the prior homeowners used that room as a nursery). We stripped the wallpaper border (which actually came off easily [...]