Conversion Complete

Sorry I’ve been MIA. I’ve been packing. WE CLOSE IN ONE WEEK! Ahhhhhhhh!!!! Also, Husband has been putting the finishing touches on the new site. FIrst: If you follow me via Bloglovin or GFC you’ll soon be losing updates.  My blog is now a .com so you’ll have to follow me on Bloglovin via this…

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Anomalies of the North

Fish house colonies form on the lakes as soon as the ice is thick enough.  They remain for months.  Or at least until the annual ice fishing competition in February. Blue Moon is served in mason jars. It snows… And snows…   and snows some more.  And never melts.   And flannel is the uniform…

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No Longer a New Yorker

We made it to Minnesota in one piece. We moved out of our teeny Upper West Side apartment on Friday. I cried. A lot. When I walked through our empty apartment to shut off all the lights, I completely lost it. I walked out the front door of our building and a homeless man going…

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A Great Gatsby Halloween

Hubs and I went out last night with some of our friends for Halloween. This is what we wore.  These are cell pics so please excuse everything We went as Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. My hat kept hitting people in the face who were trying to order at the bar. Oh and I wore…

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Happy Hurricane… errm… Halloween!

Hurricane Sandy came and went. We are all alive and well here in our teeny apartment. My brother and his girlfriend also got stranded here.  Poor kids. Anyway, we didn’t lose any power/internet/cable.  We hardly had any rain.  All is good in the hood.  In honor of Halloween, Hubs wrote a fun post for you…

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Live with Kelly and Michael

Hubs and I got tickets to Live! with Kelly and Michael last week. I was super jazzed. Except that we had to wake up at the break of dawn to get in line. The studio isn’t far from our place so I had time to grab myself a large and in charge cup of coffee.…

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Hipster for a Day

Last week, over whiskey, a friend of ours came up with an awesome idea. Host a hipster party. Genius. It all went down last Friday and it was as epic as it sounds.   The decorations were awesome.   Our friend Joe and Husband posing with a picture of a hipster that strongly resembles one…

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Only In NYC

Only in NYC does a phone take a ride in a taxi. And only Husband would have his phone fall out of his pocket. Husband was running late to his Sunday soccer game.  The subway was 20 minutes away so we hopped in a cab. 3 minutes later we were at the field. Then Hubs…

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Insta Friday!

fo realz this time peeps! Instagram finally got their shiz together and made an app for the android market. **insert biggest happy dance eva** (follow me: MarriagebyDesign) I can’t resist a picture of baby Shiner’s snaggle tooth. Daffodils are blooming everywhere in Riverside park.  The tulips are starting to bloom too. While walking through Rockafeller…

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200 Trivia and a Giveaway

This is my 200th post. That may sound like a lot, but most bloggers do 200 (or more) per year. I’ve been blogging for 4. I got a little lazy between 2008 and 2010. So in honor of my 200th, here’s some random facts about the blog: Pageviews to date: 29,510 Most popular post to…

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