I have been feeling the urge to purge lately. I think it may have something to do with watching too much HGTV. Almost all the homes on those shows look clean, organized, and above all else - minimalistic. Living and cleaning seems easy in those homes. Folks have a few choice things they love around and [...]
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The Black Hole…
The Free Dictionary defines black hole as follows: a great void; an abyss. Well my friends, I have been to the abyss and I have emerged alive (barely). The abyss, formerly known as the garage, has been a compounding problem for the entirety of our time in West Fargo. On occasion, the space has actually been [...]
Deleted.
I receive over 100 emails a day across my two main email accounts on a slow day. Of those emails I typically delete about 25% outright, read 25% before deleting or filing them, respond to another 25% and retain the remaining 25% emails in files to read or respond to later. On a day when I am [...]
Wait…here comes the scarf.
Once upon a time I was a young single girl and the only mess in my apartment was the mess I made myself. I didn't know how good I had it back then. No kids, no husband, no pets and a lot less pick-up work. Now I go from room to room arms full of [...]
The life and death of an ecosystem…
New rule – no eating or snacking at the computer. The other day in my frenzy to multi-task I dropped a blob of oatmeal on my keyboard. In cleaning the blob I was forced to take a good look at my keyboard and all the debris that was living in-between the cracks. Indeed there was [...]
THE NEW FORTY 