Cherry blossoms

This year is the first time I’m getting to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom. Ryan and I were in DC last year at the tail end of them, but it’s quite a sight to see them coming out. This picture was taken last Friday on my walk over to the Mall on my [...]

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The new kid

There’s another newbie hanging out at Kristi’s house. Her name is Bella. Here she is:
  
She’s adorable and I totally love her. She came home with Kristi yesterday, and the first thing Bella did when I met her was lick my face and my heart totally melted. I really miss my cats, but I’m looking forward to [...]

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Spring?

While I was shoveling five inches of snow in Chicago this weekend, this happened to trees along my walk to work in DC:

I am SO ready for the lovely DC spring weather…if only it didn’t bring with it hordes of spring break tourists…

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Eastern thoughts

Just a mere week ago, I loaded up my car and headed east. While I wouldn’t recommend driving through Pennsylvania at night (at least on the curvy, hilly turnpike when you’re used to flat, straight driving in the midwest), the trip wasn’t too bad. I arrived about midnight, being the bad houseguest that shows up [...]

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Problem? What problem?

I might be a little obsessed with knitting. And yarn, but I’m guessing that goes hand in hand. Last night I did an organizing project with my yarn which included the task of taking pictures of my yarn to add it to this knitting website I’ve started using (yes, I am totally a yarn nerd). [...]

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