From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Fashion Friday: Edition everything is $50 or less

April 30, 2010

I didn’t know what my intro for today’s Fashion Friday was going to be. But when I finished linking to all the items and uploading all the pictures and pulling out all my hair, I realized that there isn’t one item featured that costs more than $50. So, basically, it’s just like my closet. 1. [...]

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The worst is behind me

April 29, 2010

This is one of those times where I keep clicking over here in the hopes that some words have magically appeared on the page. But, alas, the cursor and all the white space continue to mock me. For some reason my tried and true writing method of checking Twitter six times, playing five rounds of [...]

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The trip afield

April 28, 2010

Wow. They aren’t kidding about that whole killer whale thing. Shamu – 1 Melanie – 0 That’s not a photo of the real Shamu leaping out of the perfectly landscaped flowers, by the way. I wish I had one to share with you but my iPhone doesn’t come with a telephoto lens and it wouldn’t [...]

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I apologize for the lameness contained herein

April 27, 2010

I know I said this was going to be a week of schmaltz and sentiment, not to be confused with a week of posts dedicated to rendered goose fat, but I may have overstated it. Or maybe I purged my soul of all sap and sentiment yesterday. Or maybe I’m just tired. And that is [...]

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Big things in small things

April 26, 2010

I’m just going to go ahead and prepare you that this week may be a week of schmaltz and sentiment. Maybe it’s because I’ve had a lot of emotional moments this past weekend or maybe it’s because I’m in the middle of a horrendous bout of PMS. Or maybe it’s because I had to go [...]

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