Fireplace weather

Well, the very short Fall has ended here in RVA. We tend to have a short consistently-warm Fall, and quickly the temperatures plummet around November until Spring peeks back out several months later. What’s ‘late’ Fall in RVA like? Here in downtown and around Capitol Square we get wind. It comes up from the Bottom […]

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TGIT: Thank God It’s Thursday

Thank God it’s… Thursday? Yes. Tomorrow is Friday and the work day is already almost over (I leave at 6). Why am I annoyed? Because a coworker just made this inane comment to me, “I was telling ____ I like your dress. It’d be perfect to turn into a nice big quilt.“ So I gave […]

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Dress to flatter you

A lot of you who follow me on Twitter, Instagram, even IRL on Facebook, know that I have been documenting my weight loss and “whaa”-ing about outfits and clothes. Particularly pre-wedding and now as a gluten-free Celiac disease person (I would put sufferer, but I am not suffering anymore!). My weight has plummeted since Christmas […]

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It has been one of those days…

…When I am talking about a personal matter with my office door closed and someone clearly was eavesdropping and tries to give input when we are walking out of my office to go to lunch… …When I post something funny on my Facebook and then someone leaves a passive-aggressive comment that we could have done […]

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HIMYM: Robin Sparkles

Okay, so I recently decided that you all are going to need to embrace my occasional weirdness. The weirdness might be my fixation on certain TV shows – like “How I Met Your Mother” – or might be something that demonstrates my strange sense of humor, like Shasta Anne and my love for Narwhals. Just […]

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