Sturm Haus: friday finds

So, you think genre fiction is terrible/easy reading because it's predictable? Not so fast, buckaroo: Spoilers Don't Spoil Anything at Wired explains that we enjoy fiction more when we know how a book's going to end.

Friend Heather B. sent me this the other day - definitely worth watching and thinking about. The take-away? When you think you're right, you're not -- you're wrong and you just don't know it yet.

Friend Jen lives in Midland, MI, where they have numerous beautiful mid-century modern ranch homes. Midland was the home of Alden B. Dow, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright's, and he left his mark all over the city. Jen's always emailing me house listings for drool-worthy, vintage homes. She just emailed me her latest find -- gorgeous! Too bad we don't have a reason to move there ourselves! Of course we'd have to win the lottery, too. Ah well.

Speaking of lottery winnings: I picked up some office supplies tonight and am going to try organizing bills using this method with a binder. The filing drawer is a black hole for me -- things go in and never come out, and pretty soon I'm out of room. Not helpful! I suppose this also explains a few things about my office at work. Hm.

The heat wave here finally broke, and we've had beautiful windows-open sleeping weather the past few nights. So it'll be cool enough this weekend to work in the yard (we have some digging to do). And if I get to feeling really ambitious, I'm going to start reorganizing the laundry room. We desperately need a family landing strip with better organization for backpacks and ever-bigger winter boots, and somewhere to stack the empty laundry baskets when I'm all caught up with laundry (doesn't happen often, but it does happen!). It'd be nice to get that all done before school starts in a few weeks.

Today is our 16th wedding anniversary - yay! We'll do something fun tomorrow to celebrate -- it'll be my first full day off in 2 weeks, so just getting to spend the whole day with Jon and the kids will feel special. I think we'll go to DIYpsi and maybe find a piece of art for the house.

Happy weekend!

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So, you think genre fiction is terrible/easy reading because it's predictable? Not so fast, buckaroo: Spoilers Don't Spoil Anything at Wired explains that we enjoy fiction more when we know how a book's going to end.

Friend Heather B. sent me this the other day - definitely worth watching and thinking about. The take-away? When you think you're right, you're not -- you're wrong and you just don't know it yet.

Friend Jen lives in Midland, MI, where they have numerous beautiful mid-century modern ranch homes. Midland was the home of Alden B. Dow, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright's, and he left his mark all over the city. Jen's always emailing me house listings for drool-worthy, vintage homes. She just emailed me her latest find -- gorgeous! Too bad we don't have a reason to move there ourselves! Of course we'd have to win the lottery, too. Ah well.

Speaking of lottery winnings: I picked up some office supplies tonight and am going to try organizing bills using this method with a binder. The filing drawer is a black hole for me -- things go in and never come out, and pretty soon I'm out of room. Not helpful! I suppose this also explains a few things about my office at work. Hm.

The heat wave here finally broke, and we've had beautiful windows-open sleeping weather the past few nights. So it'll be cool enough this weekend to work in the yard (we have some digging to do). And if I get to feeling really ambitious, I'm going to start reorganizing the laundry room. We desperately need a family landing strip with better organization for backpacks and ever-bigger winter boots, and somewhere to stack the empty laundry baskets when I'm all caught up with laundry (doesn't happen often, but it does happen!). It'd be nice to get that all done before school starts in a few weeks.

Today is our 16th wedding anniversary - yay! We'll do something fun tomorrow to celebrate -- it'll be my first full day off in 2 weeks, so just getting to spend the whole day with Jon and the kids will feel special. I think we'll go to DIYpsi and maybe find a piece of art for the house.

Happy weekend!

Sturm Haus