Over Christmas, Chris and I finally tried our 19 year aged cheddar that my parents got us in late November when we visited Wisconsin. We waited so long because we had been on a diet over Advent. Being on a…
Hot Springs Grandee Hot Tub Trial in Desert Hot Tubs in Tolleson
Like many people in the Phoenix area, we are planning on having a pool and hot tub put into the backyard of our new home. You can’t really test out a built-in pool before you buy it as they are…
The First Ten Weeks: Wild Things and Tech Fun
The last few months have been a blur. Chandler and living in the Stone Oaks apartments feels like a million years ago with how action packed the last 10 weeks have been. We have finally fully unpacked. About half of…
I Hate Distressed Furniture
In the last couple of months, Chris and I have done an awful lot of furniture shopping to fill our new house. I expected this to be at least a touch more fun than it has been. The problem is…
Here’s Hoping It’ll Be a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood for the 13th Doctor
In the last 24 hours, Chris and I watched two very different programs. Yesterday we saw the conclusion to Broadchurch season one for the first time after having people recommend it to us for years. We also went to see…
Our Second Year in Arizona: Bureaucracy, Convenience and Kittens
Our second full year in Arizona was a bit less intense than the first one, but I still feel we had a lot to learn. Chris started off contracting and was upgraded to being a full time employee, so that…
A Year of Memrise: Guarani, Hungarian and Romanian
I made a new year’s resolution to do 5 minutes a day of three different courses on Memrise, a mostly free language learning site where you can create your own courses or take other people’s. Long time readers may already…
Worst HBO Ever: The Leftovers
This article will contain spoilers for all three seasons of The Leftovers. The Leftovers is an HBO show that recently finished and got great reviews. Chris and I have liked many HBO series over the years and thought this would…
Heat Special Part 2
So last year, we did a blog post on the heat, as it’s what Arizona is known for. The hottest day of the year so far happened to coincide with the first day of summer in Arizona, which for time…
The TARDIS and the 3 Kinds of Hobbies
Recently, I felt like I was lacking in hobbies that didn’t involve reading or writing, so if I felt too tired to read, I didn’t have a lot to do. Chris and I talked about this and I believe we…