Not a bad way to begin my close out of 2023! 

Nope. No surprise here whatsoever…

So there’s a new service called Instafest that can link to either your Spotify or Last.fm account and create a pseudo festival poster based on the artists you listen to the most.

Not that Nate doesn’t always enjoy going to C2E2, but something tells me he’s really gonna be jazzed about this one…

That snow that was predicted for which Nathan would need new coat, snow pants, and boots? It actually happened!!

I’ve been accepting book recommendations lately from a variety of people. I was interested in something new and needed gift ideas for my upcoming birthday and Christmas.

The best thing about Black Friday? It’s pretty much the one day of the year when EVERY SINGLE website or e-commerce retailer you’ve ever subscribed to willingly (or been subscribed to unwillingly) contacts you.

Listening to Matthew Perry’s memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing makes me so happy I’ve never personally had to deal with the sort of addiction Perry faced.

Yeah, this little gem – the KitchenAid peeler/slicer – made quick work of prepping apple pies this year.

While perusing Max – the streaming service, not some random dude – last night, I saw a featured title that piqued my curiosity… David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived.

The Great White Mouse Hunter is back! After a couple nights trying, I finally caught a mouse on one of the traps I had set throughout the house.

In 2011, I got back into comic books for about the bajillionth time in my life but this was the one that stuck. I’ve stayed fairly consistent for 12.5 years now.

As an update to yesterday’s post, the traps caught nothing. They weren’t even tripped and the peanut butter wasn’t touched. So either Katie was mistaken or, as she calls it, she was going crazy.

I had to do something tonight that I haven’t done in about three or four years… set mouse traps in the house.

We discovered recently that Nathan needs all new winter gear… coat, snow pants, and boots. The whole enchilada. Everything he has is too small.

Poor Nathan. He can’t sit at the cool kids table.

60 books up. 60 books down! 1.5 months left to go!

Perhaps it’s time to dispose of the pumpkins.

It’s been a while since I checked in on this front, but I am still soda free since the end of May. 5.5 months.

This is the Target-exclusive Jamie Tartt Funko POP statue from the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso.

Nothing like a flat tire on your new car to start off the day.

Is my new hat totally me or what?

Over the years since Nate got his first Nintendo Switch console, he’s collected a bunch of games to play on it.

While perusing Instagram, I discovered an online service that allows you to customize a Peanuts-inspired Christmas ornament.

After losing last week and killing my perfect record and putting me in a tie for first place based on record (I have more points overall, so I was in true first), my fantasy football team at work came back in a pretty big way and won this week.

For the second year in a row, Nathan opted to have his friends birthday party celebrated at Urban Air, a local, indoor adventure and trampoline park.

Lately, Nathan and I have been toeing the waters of toy swaps. Literally, we’ve been taking some of the toys we don’t want anymore or maybe never cared about at all (obtained through contest wins or the like) and have been trying to set up trades with other toy collectors.

I’m watching Paranormal Activity 2, which is supposed to be thought of as a found-footage film about a family whose new house in ritzy Calabasas, CA, is haunted and we find out at pretty much the same time they do.

I thought I’d take a moment to throw some of our Halloween-related photos your way.

Dang, I spend so long looking forward to Halloween and then it just flies by like it’s nothing. Here’s November already.