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holiday traditions (guest post)

Posted by lyn | Dec 20, 2010 | true story | 0

I originally wrote this as a guest post for Lizzie and Isiah’s wonderful blog titled Love...

frozen precipitation watch 2010

Posted by lyn | Dec 19, 2010 | rant | 5

On Thursday we leave for Oregon. Because we are intelligent people, we opted to fly out of...

this

Posted by lyn | Dec 18, 2010 | jokes | 5

Right here, this is everything I like about hockey. Also, this:...

mixtape 8: if we make it through december

Posted by lyn | Dec 18, 2010 | mixtape masters | 1

First of all, this post is late. Sorry about that. Yesterday I was just too darn busy baking cookies to get this thing up in a timely manner. I know. It’s a crying shame. Second of all, this post features holiday music....

in which we learned nothing

Posted by lyn | Dec 15, 2010 | true story | 7

Today there was an office holiday luncheon downstairs in the break room. For thirty minutes, I stayed upstairs at my desk, ignoring it. I knew exactly what was going to be spread out on those folding tables without even looking,...

them chickens jackin’ my style

Posted by lyn | Dec 14, 2010 | musings | 7

Like many other 30-year-olds, my concept of a great night out increasingly involves making a pot of white cheddar shells and cheese and staying in to watch House Hunters. I’ve always been slow to take to new trends —...

hoarders: the christmas edition

Posted by lyn | Dec 13, 2010 | everyday life | 12

I’ll admit it, I occasionally shop at Anthropologie. For a long time, the clerks would wrap your purchases in white tissue paper with little red dots on it. I saved this paper and used it during the holidays, because it...

mixtape 7: electric feeling

Posted by lyn | Dec 10, 2010 | mixtape masters | 5

I was never really that much into “electronic” music. Until one day, I was. To be fair, this isn’t electronic music in the sense of trance, or house. It isn’t inaccessible. It’s pop. Good, clean,...

target practice

Posted by lyn | Dec 9, 2010 | musings | 12

We were honeymooning on Vancouver Island. On the drive from Ucluelet to the ferry terminal in...

mixed bag

Posted by lyn | Dec 5, 2010 | musings, true story | 15

Friday night we went to the beau’s office holiday party. This is the fifth year I’ve attended his holiday party, but the first of those years that we’ve been married. Some things happened this year that...

mixtape 6: head space

Posted by lyn | Dec 3, 2010 | mixtape masters | 3

Sometimes I get in a zone. A musical zone where I want to be mellow and introspective without necessarily being slow or quiet. In those instances, nothing really suits me like a good trip hoppy/electronica/acid jazzy fix. Who...

in which my antisocial tendencies surface

Posted by lyn | Nov 30, 2010 | rant | 16

If only I had me a sharp knife. If only I had me a sharp knife, I wouldn’t have to go downstairs to the main kitchen at work to prep my food. Slicing tomatos, apples, avocados, rinsing lettuce — all that could be...

Year: 2010