On Thursday we had carpeting installed in our three bedrooms and since all the furniture from those three rooms were stacked in my living room and dining room I was confined to my kitchen from about 10:30am to 2:30pm. In this time I unwrapped 72 candy canes and made about 80 ounces of peppermint bark for my husband and I’s coworkers, hostess gifts for holiday parties and Christmas Day. I also made 2 dozen cookies for good measure. With about an hour left before I […]
Not sure if I should laugh or cry
You’re all probably familiar with Sarah Andersen, even if you don’t realize it. Her adorable cartoons pop up all over the internet — I see them on Facebook all the time. They feature a slightly bedraggled young woman (college-age, would be my guess based on the cartoons) who’s usually struggling with one aspect of life or another. Andersen has collected her cartoons in this cute little book (the text on the cover is fuzzy!). They’re all laid out with no text or commentary from the […]
Adulthood for beginners
I haven’t read a true comic book since Calvin and Hobbes in grade school but I am in love with Sarah Andersen’s cartoons, which I discovered through Instagram, and impulsively bought her new book (out today!) with part of a birthday gift card. While it took all of fifteen minutes to read it was an enjoyable fifteen minutes- also, the cover page has felt letters so that’s a plus! I wished Andersen had taken a page out of Allie Brosh’s book and inserted some personal […]