This weekend was adventure filled. Just hours before we (finally)(after seven months of living here) had our housewarming party, two puppies arrived on a plane. (It sounds like the setting of a made-for-TV movie, no?) My poor mother: While they were as well behaved as could be and didn’t make a peep, the little boy, [...]
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage
June 21, 2010 By 16 Comments
What do you do when you cross this impossibly cute furball… …with this horndog who can’t keep his pants on? (You see where this is going.) Well, if you’re SVV and me, you get…your first baby! (Of the little white rat persuasion, that is.) That’s right, in a twist of fate, the day we touched [...]
SURPRISE!
September 1, 2009 By 24 Comments
Alternatively titled: In Which I Fly Home to Tennessee for My Mom’s Big Birthday Bash and Totally Catch Her Off Guard with Both My Visit and a Puppy, aka The One in Which I’m the World’s Best Daughter. Heh. OK, back up, rewind. My mom and dad were supposed to have come to California for [...]
Going to the Dogs
August 27, 2009 By 21 Comments
One great thing about my job and working from home is that I can get up at the crack of dawn (6am in this case), work until noon in a coffee-induced frenzy, then hop a train down to San Jose to meet Sarah for lunch. Not like I do that often or anything; I’ve been [...]
A Word from Our Sponsors
April 30, 2008 By 1 Comment
Pound Puppies Sing the Blues from krysleigh on Vimeo. Did I not mention I hail from a musical family? Happy first day of May, y’all!
A House Is Not a Home…Except When It Is
April 24, 2008 By 8 Comments
The first house I ever lived in was a cozy three-bedroom, white-and-brown wooden house with a bricked-in backporch on Marbeth Lane. We lived there until I was seven, at which point my parents bought a home on the East Side—where I come from, there are only two sides of town; if you’re from the West, [...]
