satisfaction

after upgrading my wordpress platform today (and having a minor panic attack when it looked like i’d screwed up and lost everything) and after struggling *forever* to get the stupid sideblog plugin working, i finally succeeded on both. there is such a feeling of satisfaction from figuring out something that has stumped you. now if [...]

cops and surprises

there is never a dull day here at casa de schulman. we woke this morning after a night of little sleep and discovered the dog that had kept us up most of the night with its howling was in our neighbor’s backyard. the only problem with that was that we hadn’t seen our neighbors in [...]

pictures on canvas

i love canvas paintings. that’s probably because my parents always had a big canvas painting of a woods scene with a light attached hanging in our living room. since we got married, i’ve wanted to get one of our wedding pictures put onto a canvas to hang in our living room. i just haven’t gotten [...]

sd cards

if you’re looking for an sd card, this site has a pretty good deal. the card has 1 gb of space and is selling for $12.95. plus, as an additional bonus, you get 25 free 4×6 prints from shutterfly. i might take advantage of this deal myself. we only have one sd card right now, [...]

flea marketing

you know how every once in a while someone will find something rare, like a picasso painting, at a flea market? well, that happened to us last sunday. we hit a couple of flea markets before the braves game for a story joe is writing, and at the second one joe decided to browse through [...]

house projects

our deck is almost done! this has been a long, painful process. it took us several months to finally get it stained (and by us, i mean the royal us, which is joe). every time joe went outside and opened the can of stain, it would start raining. and i do mean every.single.time. it became [...]

i’m the new first lady!

last night, joe was installed as president of our kiwanis club. that makes me the first lady.
the meeting was great. my parents and joe’s dad came, and i was given an award for my work on the recent kiddie day parade.

i was so proud of my husband. he will make a fantastic president. [...]