Annuity

I was looking for my headphones today, and I found them in my purse having a dirty, dirty threesome with my lipstick and a pen.
I felt like I had walked in on something really wrong.

In other news, I am really excited about our new lawn mower!
Hashtag grown-up enthusiasm.

"But Allie, didn't you just buy a lawn mower less than a year ago when you got a house?"

Aye. But the "guaranteed to start" slogan is an egregious falsehood.
We replaced the spark plug.
We emptied the old gas and replaced with fresh gas.
We changed the oil.
And the thing still sputters like an old tired horse.

From reading online, it might be something with a carburetor and a dead battery and at this point any other time or effort spent on it is a sunk cost.

So we bought a push reel mower. One that doesn't require spark plugs or gas or oil or engineering know-how.
All you have to do is clean the blades and sharpen them every couple years or so.

I. AM. STOKED.

I think the best part about it is going to be lack of noise.
Es ist sehr ruhig.
We could mow at midnight if we wanted to.

Sure, it might be harder to push than a self-propelled machine, but it's about time I got some muscle-y arms. Michael already has muscle-y arms. He can do a WHOLE push-up.
I'm so peanut butter and jelly.

However, I did actually got a compliment on my calves the other day.
Baseball legs?
Yeah I don't think so.

In a pie chart of exciting things happening in my life, the lawn mower is about 10%. The wedding is about 40-50%. And the other 40-50% I cannot share with thee. I know I'm always doing to this to you guys. Blogging about "secrets" and whatnot. It's like, why does Allie even blog at all? She doesn't really tell us much anymore. She used to be such a whimsical scribbler, but now all she does is write about things she can't write about. It's like reading the blog of a secret service agent.

Chyeah, if the agent was about to get a cool lawn mower!

But do you want to know a different secret?
Red lentils are better than regular lentils.
They probably make better mosaics, too, if you're into legume art.

I said, "Yeah, okay, cool. That looks like it will work." to the dress,
TWS