Monthly Archives: December 2009

Ghosts of New Years Past: A Retrospective

New Years Eve 2001: I receive my first kiss on the mean streets of Vail, Colorado. {Me and Petey NYE 2007…we have spent every New Years since we met together, all together now…Aww} New Years Eve 2005: After pining away for Pete all semester he finally professes his love for me. Highly intoxicated I turn [...]

A tip of the hat to The Bowery Hotel

Have you ever heard of The Bowery Hotel in New York? I hadn’t until Gwyneth Goop’d about it, and since despite the fact that Gwynnie seems to live with her head  implanted into her hindparts lately, she hasn’t Goop’d me astray so far, and so I decided to go ahead and give it a try. [...]

Rollin’ With The Homies

Hi Loves! I am in Florida for a little fun in the sun, so posting might be a little slow this week although I am still going to try my best. If you haven’t already, PLEASE head over to Apartment Therapy to vote for Peppermint Bliss to win a 2009 Homies Award. It only takes [...]

Deck the Halls with Disco Balls

I shit you not. This is a real life Christmas Card my mom received this year, from a real life human being. Wishing you and the crazies in your life a very Merry Christmas!

Jingle Bella

I am traveling today back to the sunnier skies of Houston, but I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I love you all and consider each and every one of you to be a blessing in my life. And I hope you enjoy your Christmas gifts more than Bella did.

Real Weddings: Snippet and Ink

First, a little shameless self promotion. I was nominated for a 2009 Homies Award over at Apartment Therapy and it would mean EVER so much to me if you lovelies would head over there and vote for Peppermint Bliss! It will really help me find some new gorgeous readers like yourselves and keep Peppermint Bliss [...]

All the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men…

…Started to put Clifford, The Big Red House, back together again! The demo phase is finally over people! Now, slowly but surely, our truly wonderful contractor will start putting Clifford back together, starting first with the floor! It occurred to me that many of you may be unfamiliar with the saga of Clifford, The Big [...]

Addicted to Cute

I was an American Studies Major in college, did you know that? Do you even know what that means? Because I didn’t before college, and most people I tell now look at me like I have a star shaped head. I would say basically it is a cultural study of American History, anyway, I read [...]

Wastey Wednesday…

Pete is finally finished with finals and we have been celebrating his freedom/birthday all week. On Wednesday we had so much fun that I forgot to go to work on Thursday (whoopsie daisies!) What, you might ask, can one do on a Wednesday night that would be THAT much fun!? Well I will tell you. [...]

Happy Friday!

In honor of The Jersey Shore officially becoming The Situation, I bring you: Vintage, The Jersey Shore [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eqCBCUawKY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] xoxo BPow (Which I was informed by Melanie is my official “Jersey Shore” name)

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