Product Management, Productivity and Personal musings
1. Nick bought me these lilies for my birthday last year and then planted them in our garden. They bloomed this week just in time for my birthday this weekend. How cool is that? 2. I've had these jeans for a year and a half and I finally got them hemmed this week. It took …
{N's dad's wedding band from when N's parents were married which I wear everyday.} Sometimes it's nice to look around and remember how lucky I am. I really like my little life in Vancouver and I love looking around our apartment to be reminded of people, places and events in my life. I once heard …
{Well organized and edited bookshelves.} I mentioned before that I had boundless energy for my apartment earlier this week. What I didn't have was boundless energy to post about it, apparently! Call it spring fever or blame it on the guests we're excited to receive in June but I tackled some of those annoying little …
I thought that Tuesday's post from Reading My Tea Leaves was lovely so I was especially pleased to find these beauties on my desk when I arrived at work, the very same day. They come from a few East Van chickens that belong to my friend Norm's daughter-in-law. We had fried eggs with toast and avocado this morning and …
I believe I have mentioned before that I love avocados. Love probably isn't a strong enough word. I actually didn't know how much I loved them until I tried guacamole made by my friend Laura, two years ago. (The sunny weather on the back balcony and the cool beer didn't hurt, either.) After professing my …
It has been a long week, friends. Mostly due to frustrating construction in our bathroom and wrapping up one of our bigger books at work. After some congratulatory wine (for finishing the book) at The Whip, with work mates and Nick, we headed home early. I think because of our crazy week, we were both …
I've really been feeling the need to get out the vacuum, scrub brushes and cloths the last few weeks. I'm a border-line clean freak (some people I know would remove the border-line part) but something about the tradition of spring cleaning that really gets me going. This spring I haven't had quite as much motivation …
Kate Moore Hermes 