The Woodlands Biotch

there’s something to be said for working in a place where you are truly appreciated. this past week i really felt like i should be doing more, contributing more. i mean, i know i’m still a newbie – this week was only my third and concluded on what was essentially only 12 actual days of [...]

if you’ve walked around much at all, you’ve surely noticed there are two or three street corners you want to avoid at all costs. not because they’re dangerous (i’m still of the opinion there are very few places in the woodlands that are dangerous in the least) or because they’re unpopular. but because to wander [...]

is it just me, or don’t most oktoberfest events actually happen in october? i don’t want to get off on a rant, here, but come on… it’s bad enough that the woodlands rotary didn’t give us much notice in the first place, so why not have the thing in october?
i mean, isn’t that the point, [...]

i’m sure i’ve mentioned on several  occasions now that we eat out a lot. so let me get right down to it.
sometimes, the places you avoid eating at really do turn out to be hidden gems. take for example two of our latest discoveries:
capri, in what used to be victor’s ox tail (a restaurant i had [...]

spending the weekend in a flyspeck of a town up in the mid-west, but just thought i’d throw this out there: who’s got the cuter hand? my four-week old baby nephew, or me when I was two?        
 
 
 
 
 
 
granted i was an adorable baby (which had no bearing on my plain-jane-ness i suffered through in [...]

to live in the woodlands, texas puts one in the unique position of being surrounded by a wealth of mexican restaurants. if you want to check this out for yourself, here’s a wonderful listing of them. as an independently not-wealthy woman, i like to eat out a lot. that, and i used to have to cook [...]

i know i’ve dropped again from the radar (why am i always apologizing for that, anyway? no one ever actually complains…) but i’ve got good reason.
i left my old job and took a new one and i’m swirling and drudging my way through the hell and nervousness that is starting over. so bear with me. [...]