As you remember, last time I blathered on and on about the ugly carpeting in our bedrooms and the horrors that likely lie beneath. I thou...

After my last super long post about the house, where I admitted I'd been putting off installing the dimmer switch in the kitchen overhe...

Hi! Welcome to our house! This is the view from the front window where the cat likes to watch the world go by. When I was writing this po...

Somehow, although I don't even recognize myself, I have become the kind of person who goes to an hour-long barre class before work ...

The apartment we live in now was built in 1887. The page on Trulia says 1889 but I'm pretty sure I found a record from 1887. When i...

 Went to the Art Institute Museum awhile ago and actually remembered my camera. I've loved the ceramics in the Asian wing since my long-...

I've come to realize that I have a "thing" about cleanliness. So I live in this new, cheap, air-conditioned apartment, which ...

Summer in Chicago is absolutely the best thing ever. My new roommate stood on the porch and declared: "Another day in paradise!" Y...

I went to Forever 21 yesterday with a friend, even though I'm morally against the throw-away and ripped-off fashion of stores like that...

I'm moving! I found a place. Things fell through with my dear friend with whom I was going to find a two-bedroom for the summer, so I lo...

Actually, moving is just sad. It's exciting to think of getting a new place, but very unsettling to me to have roommates leaving, a most...

 I'm on the apartment hunt again! This time, I'm finally moving out of the neighborhood where I've lived for almost 7 years (!!...

I'm not sure if this video upload will work. I like the flash of green light, though. I took this on a loooong bike ride back from work ...

Today was pretty horrible and depressing, despite a middling to good day at work, I was ridiculously tired and irritable and impatient comin...

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it i...