Recently, Greg read In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, which seemed to really impact his life. Suddenly, he would come home, see me eating a granola bar in the kitchen and sigh heavily, roll his eyes and say, “Ugh! That just disgusts me!”

I read the book later on with … [ more ]

Every Mother’s Day, the Robleto family has a tradition of putting in a day’s worth of manual labor on whatever project mom wants. This year’s project was the garage. Here’s a photo of work in progress:

Imagine my excitement when I found that Greg had a huge pile stashed in his … [ more ]

Selena and I (with Tanya, Jason and Rebecca) went to see “Flight of the Concords” on Friday night. The New Zealand duo was a lot of fun, playing all their biggest hits from their first HBO special and from the show: Jenny, Business Time, Albie the Racist Dragon, If You … [ more ]

While the Gossip Girl contingent grows at my work, so do the number of links that get passed back and forth about my new favorite show. Last week, a co-worker sent me a link to Chuck Bass quotes. When I thanked her for the link later on, she yelled, “Best … [ more ]

As we sit in our home today with our pockets drained and a few lbs. heavier, I wondered what happened this week? I realized we have had quite an eventful week and caught at least three shows. Here are my reviews.

Monday
Helen Hayes: similar show portion as every year, pretty much, … [ more ]

On Monday, Greg and I were dressed to the nines for the Helen Hayes awards (it’s like a local DC version of the Tony Awards, except with more inside jokes. And cheesier.) and decided we should eat someplace she-she as well. We went to TenPenh* and started off with some … [ more ]

I recently put up a post about our living room in disarray, acting as storage for all of Selena’s boxes. My brother, Jeff, noted that we hadn’t actually addressed on the blog all the work we’ve been doing to fix up our living room in the past six weeks, … [ more ]