Long Hollow

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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Me and Him

  • Good Mondays (and long, long Tuesdays)

    Monday was a good day. Despite being out of coffee (remembering as soon as I stepped into the kitchen that it was the main reason I planned to go to the grocery store after shopping with TG the night before) the lightning, thunder and expletives a morning without fresh hot coffee would normally trigger stayed…

  • Friday Favorite Photo (Friday Already?)

    I'm packing my days so tight these days that if this week was a suitcase, I'd be sitting on it right now trying to zip it up! So Tom shouldn't have been surprised that I neglected my half of dinner-duty today. Yes, it's true. I forgot to take something out to thaw. That's okay, though,…

  • What a weekend! Where do I start?

    I think I'll start with today, a Monday which has redeemed all prior Mondays in my eyes (even though it's not technically part of the weekend) and move backwards for a change.  No, I didn't win the lottery or anything. We're still as broke as ever.. monetarily, anyway. And no, I didn't get another Monday…

  • Sun(day), Wind and Water

    "You and Tom want to go out on the boat tomorrow after Mass?" "Sure!" To-do list? What to-do list? Faces of Procrastination… Well, there's always Monday… or Tuesday… or Wednesday…  

  • Meet the Walburg Boys (and a Saturday To-Do List)

    Tom and I hit the highway last night to experience a Central Texas gem we had no idea even existed until now – the Walburg Restaurant and Biergarten. I was kicking myself (in between dances) that we'd never been before. Tom danced with me, but while those fast polkas start my toes tapping, he became…

  • No Time-Squandering here, Ben

    Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. ~Benjamin Franklin I don't think I'm guilty of time-squandering. Even with my tennis shoes on, Time is outrunning me these days. Another weekend has snuck up on me and I haven't really mentioned the last one. Maybe I just…

  • Tom’s Back Therapy

    It's only been two weeks since Tom hurt his back bowling. It had gotten better, but I'm pretty sure he stretched Dr. Oz's advice a bit far Saturday… A few hours later, he was back in bed, lying on a heating pad. (can you hear me sighing?) I only have time for a quick post…

  • Love (and luck) on a Friday the 13th

    Twenty-eight years ago today, Tom and I dismissed superstition by getting married on a Friday the 13th. We were so sure of our decision, so confident of our love and our future together, that we challenged those centuries-old superstitions to a duel. Well, of course they just turned tail and ran, because they could see…

  • Marriage Tip #5 (thank you, Dr. Oz)

    Since I'm a good wife and mother, I subscribe to Men's Health Today emails. That way I can forward them to Tom and my boys, nagging virtually when I can't do it in person. Sometimes I read the articles, but often I don't have time, and that's what happened today. But the title and blurb…

  • Drew Womack, friends, a hill above the lake = a perfect Texas night

    By the time slow-poke Friday knocks on our door, Tom and I are usually worn out from entertaining the other demanding, high-maintenance days of the week; we can muster enough energy to snuggle downstairs watching a movie, but that's about it. We don't have enough brain left to make plans (besides, we're procrastinators, remember?) Thank…