Getting It Done: DIY on your Lunch Break
Work-life balance has never been one of my strengths. I like to work. Hard. And for most of my adult life that has translated into sixty-hour work weeks, and a (read more...)
Sunday Love
Over the last year or so MysteryMan and I have been learning how we work together as a team. We've found what works best is when he's on one end (read more...)
Determination To The Point of Stupidity
Alternative titles for this post: "Watch me beat the hell out of a piece of drywall", "Things I should not post on the internet", "When proving your point goes very, (read more...)
Where I Got It
Note: I'd just like to thank all the regulars who've dropped me bits of encouragement over the last couple of posts. I really am down-to-the-bones exhausted, and hey! I've got (read more...)
Wherein “Someone” has a Heart Attack. Literally.
Let me ask you a question. Which of the people in this picture look like they are about to have a heart attack: Hmmm... The last time he came over to "work" (read more...)
Starting off Right: A Message to All DIYers
The only redeeming quality of a day whose temperature-high was in the negative numbers, is that it forced me to stay inside where it's slightly less frigid and work on (read more...)
Do I lose my DIY membership card for this?
Some time ago after I had finished my MBA, and MysteryMan was in the midst of studying for his Professional Engineer's licensing exam, I was feeling a bit forlorn about (read more...)
DIY Stress: When mirrors become the enemy.
I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror at work today. It was the afternoon, so I'd been there nearly all day, and six hours later I stood in (read more...)
We don’t use the “C” word in this house.
Yesterday MysteryMan and I were working out the logistics of having a bigass piece of replacement glass delivered to the Memorial House. Apparently glass delivery isn't like FedEx delivery. You (read more...)
What can I say? I love this drill. Along with every other tool in my 
