Montrose Weekend

Wedding Dress Recycle, v.1

I've been designing a dress that will re-use the fabric from my wedding dress.  One possible outcome looks like this:

Life on the Monorail

I read the following passage of an Augusten Burroughs book the same week that I told my husband that I thought it was funny that we always choose to live in the city right where the action is, even though we generally cook at home more than we eat out and rarely participate in most of what said city offers.

I've never read Augusten Burroughs before, but when I saw his new book, "This is How", on the library shelf, and I took a moment to leaf through it.  I immediately happened upon a page that raises the very topic of habitually small-radius behavior.

"The reason I live in Manhattan is not because I 'enjoy taking advantage of everything the city has to offer'  like a dubious personal ad; it's because I'm both wasteful and a glutton.  I like knowing that everything is right there beside me so I can let it all spoil in the refrigerator next to the broccoli...
...For example, if you take a subway or walk to work each day, do you alter your course?  Do you ever get on the wrong train, on purpose?...
...Do you seek out fresh neighborhoods in parts of town you've never seen so you can discover a brand-new dentist every time you need your teeth cleaned?
...When you run out of saltines, are you going to go to the nearest store, or spice it up and head over the supermarket on the other side of town?..."

Pros and Cons

Summer Uniform: Pt. II

Cheap and Easy

When friends and family ask me how Houston is, I tell them that Houston is cheap and easy.  You can park your car everywhere, most city homes have garages, there are a half-dozen grocery stores in my immediate radius which are chock-full of cheap food, and every product anyone ever thought of is available here.  The economy is good and people are shopping.  They are always shopping.  Restaurants multiply like mushrooms, and they always seem over-staffed.  Customer service is generally friendly and top-notch, and business is booming.

And yet when my husband and I picture our future, we do not picture ourselves here.  This isn't surprising in the sense that we never intended to be here, but our transition coming here was so smooth that we did briefly imagine ourselves staying longer than planned.