Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

This doesn’t have much to do with food. I’m not one for resolutions; my attention span is far shorter than a year, and Back to School always feels more fresh-startish than January, to me. But I feel like I slipped into a bit of a funk as the year wrapped up, and I am at [...]

I must be some kind of masochist; this afternoon as the snow barely started to fall I thought to myself “Kate, go run 90 errands. It is less than a week before Christmas and they’re saying to stay off the roads, but clearly you must acquire more Pine Mountain logs (like duraflame, but better, and [...]

Now *this* was an exciting thing: Leah from More Ways to Waste Time asked me a while ago if I’d be willing to do one of her House Voyeur tours, and it went live earlier this week! So here you go–a fairly-complete look at our apartment (I didn’t include the guest room, a dull place [...]

Oh, for shame, Kate! I swore to myself that I would do some posting while I was home in Oregon (for a very, very lovely wedding, in which I was participating and at which I gave a toast–eep–and ate wonderful food and danced a lot and my feet hurt), but I was too too busy [...]

There are three things left to do in the kitchen: -Install a hood -Replace the lighting over the sink and in the middle of the room -Hang art I find the first two things totally overwhelming, but the third I can handle. Looking at the kitchen photos with the new shelf really made me aware [...]

Last time we checked in on the kitchen, I hadn’t bothered to post a photo with knobs up on the cabinets. We did actually take care of that back around Thanksgiving, but since then there has been little progress on the final few things to do in the kitchen. But sparked by I don’t know [...]

A quick survey: I have painted a large magnetic-paint board in my office, and am trying to decide whether to paint it over with black chalkboard paint, which would leave it looking roughly as it does now, but w/out messy painters tape, or with paint slightly different from the current shade of the office wall, [...]

There will be cooking this week. It’s just been a rough and busy few weeks with lots of late work for one or both of us/meals in the office/travel, etc. A few weekends ago when we had the three-day weekend all at home (bliss!), we knocked out lots of little tasks that needed doing around [...]

As I said in the last post, we spent a lot of time this weekend working around the apartment. While the kitchen didn’t get any new touches, we did talk and think a lot about what it needs to make it feel complete… I need to upload a more recent photo, since we have added [...]

Ben ordered the new stove, and we’re thinking about hoods; scary and exciting stuff. Here’s what we’re thinking: Hood: We need a recirculating hood because drilling through to the outside for ventilation will be a nightmare. Not sure what to do yet. Stove: I saw the white enamel Viking in Domino at least a year [...]