Yesterday I was checking my site analytics for 2011 for a future blog post. My traffic is pretty steady, so any abnormalities definitely stand out. Back last November I noticed a huge spike, and when I looked into it I saw it came from an extremely popular horse message board. Back when I worked at a major equine retailer in MA, I had to make banner advertisments to go on this message board for our company, and I think the…
Here’s a story about Lauren in college: I went to a large land grant university where being an English major was not the desired department of cool kids. There were the Greek life students in the business school, the nerds in Computer Science & Engineering, and the farmer boys in Agriculture Science. Small aside – my husband, brother, and sister in law are in each of those three categories. I’ll let you guess which. Back to the main story –…
Tim is in Chicago all weekend, which meant I created a list of ambitious plans to do in his absence. This list included (in no particular order) finish painting the doors and decks of our house, take down all the Christmas decorations, clean the house from top to bottom, re-organize the guest room and take the dogs on several long outings to tire them out so they won’t annoy me anymore. What actually happened is more like this… I woke…
Still getting the blog back and looking decent (right now it looks like a canned template, because that’s exactly what it is). It’s been cold and gross here – so here are some pictures from my honeymoon… a much warmer time!
Contrary to what I’ve been writing about lately, it’s not all about horses over here. Tonight Tim and I went downtown to our favorite dive bar for dinner, and then to a show to see his favorite band – Lucero. Now Lucero is something I’m proud of, because I was the one who introduced Tim to this Memphis, TN alt country band. I have many great talents and qualities, but being an “in” person in the music scene is not…
I finished Kitchen Confidential earlier this month, and although my love for Anthony Bourdain runs deeply… my fondness for that book did not. I do like his writing style, which I figured I would since I enjoy his narration of the TV show. I like to write non-fiction type essays, and even when I write fiction I have this conversational tone that rambles on in different directions but (hopefully) keeps it engaging and flavorful. He has a very similar style. …