Meatloaf Shortcut
I don’t know how you do it, but we grocery shop once a week (picking up forgotten items when necessary). Jojo and I plan our menu for the week, make a list, and then go for it. We have our… Continue Reading
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An Appliqued T-Shirt Mod
I couldn’t write today’s post without acknowledging how moved I was by the outpouring of love regarding Coralie’s post yesterday. Our readers really are the best, and I just wanted you guys to know how much it is/was appreciated. I’m sure… Continue Reading
The Right to Complain in the Right Way
In todays age of social media, people can vent their opinions everywhere– whether you like it, or not. You can pan the book you read on Goodreads. You can complain about the inferior quality of the headphones you ordered from Amazon.… Continue Reading
An Unlikely Arsenal of Dishwashing Tools
Soap. Water. Elbow grease. These are all the things you need to do dishes, right? Not in my book! As I mentioned on Tuesday, I h-a-t-e hate doing dishes. But, do you know what I hate more? Dishes that are… Continue Reading
A Glove Letter to Casabella
I’ve talked before about my complex relationship with doing dishes. It is one of those chores, like doing laundry, that is never ending; even if you clean all of them, there will still be more tomorrow. To lessen my “begrudge-ness,”… Continue Reading
Further Fun Fotos on Friday!
OoooooOOOOOOOOoooooo. Friday the 13th! Whatever that means for you, I hope you aren’t afraid of more fun photos! This installment of photos is broken up into four sections: fun photos taken at the grocery store, ‘my neighborhood is awesome’ fun… Continue Reading
How Do YOU Suh-Lahd?
Iceberg lettuce. Blue Cheese Dressing. Onions. Cheddar Cheese. Diced tomato. Bacon bits. Crumbly crackers. Growing up, this was pretty much what I thought salad was; bland vegetables swimming in a sea of white that was there to mask the fact… Continue Reading
The Song of the Cock-a-roaches
Moving to another city is hard. Especially if it’s on the other side of the country. 99.9% of the time, I’m super glad to have moved to California. But, there is that 0.01% of the time when I get a little sad… Continue Reading
Spicing Up My Life!
I wish this post were as exciting as the title… but, to me, it is. One of the fun things about moving to a new place is figuring out where everything should go and how to make it the most… Continue Reading
Hinged: The Tale of a Thermostat Cover
Once Upon A Time…. there lived a maiden named Regina Leigh. She lived in the fantastical realm of Burbank in an area famed for it’s lake of Toluca. Regina Leigh was a funny girl who liked certain things a certain… Continue Reading
Back to the Lab! Re-Trying to Remove Painted Labels from Plastic Containers!
One of our more popular posts on FTTDWYW is a post I did pintesting a pin from Pinterest about removing paint from plastic containers. Coralie and I are always amazed at what posts resonate with the world, and this one struck a chord. In… Continue Reading
Creature Comforts
Now that things are making their way out of boxes and back into our lives, I am in awe of two things. The first is the amount of things that I had completely forgotten about… the things that when they are… Continue Reading
A Natural Home Remedy from Our Fully Furnished Home
The movers came and went on Thursday. They delivered *most of* our stuff. We won’t be able to assess the full spectrum of the event until everything is unpacked which will take a while… because not only did they deliver… Continue Reading
Goings On… Updates and NJL Announcement
Coralie and I are constantly working on ways to make FTTDWYW harder. better. faster. stronger. From the beginning of FTTDWYW, Coralie and I have wanted certain things for the blog- mainly for the blog to be instinctive, intuitive… for you… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Part 4
I’m sure y’all are about as tired of hearing about my apartment painting as I am of painting… but Jojo and I finished the master bedroom and guest room/hobby hacienda this weekend and I had to share the most awesome… Continue Reading
Funny Foto Friday
Coralie is super awesome at taking meaningful, well-composed photos… ones that commemorate a moment and are capturers of memories… when going through my photos, especially now with camera phones, I find that 90% of them are joke photos; things that… Continue Reading
Twelve Wall Painting Tips “They” Won’t Tell You on the Internet*
As I mentioned Monday (and several posts before that), I’ve recently begun painting our apartment room-by-room in preparation for the movers arriving with our stuff. I researched and scoured the internet for tips to make painting easier. But, let’s face… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Part 3
If you are playing along at home, you’ll know that we’ve been planning on painting our apartment before our furniture gets here. Well, as you read this (hopefully) all of stuff is FINALLY being loaded onto a truck. It should… Continue Reading
Crunch Time!
I’ve been making excuses the past month and a half about all the reasons why I’m too stressed to workout/take care of myself… when, in fact, those stressors are all the reasons why I SHOULD be working out. My whole life… Continue Reading
Top 10 Signs You’re Getting Older
I’ve always been “mature for my age”… which was all fine and good, until I actually started getting older. I don’t want to sound like Andy Rooney (will the kidz even GET that reference), because I believe growing older is a… Continue Reading