Krystal Daubenspeck

I forgot to clean my cats’ litter box for a few days. Typically, I clean it in the mornings when I feed them. My routine; wake up, start the Nespresso machine, feed the cats, clean their box, journal and start the day. However, I’ve been going to bed later, waking later and Hubs has been feeding them. The litter box is upstairs in the back corner where I have no reason to go, except to clean the box. So it didn’t get done. Yesterday afternoon I went ‘ahh fuck’, ran up there around eight pm...

I think I skipped a spring update, so there’s much to talk about. The biggest news to share is that Ben and I eloped to NOLA! If you missed this post, we snuck off the first weekend of spring and got hitched.It’s been a very rainy spring and summer, so staying caught up on mowing, weeding, and general yard work has been an adventure in itself. I bought a small battery-powered lawn mower a few years back when I purchased the house, and she’s put up a good fight, but we finally retired her. My...

Like most people, I enjoy chocolate. One of my favorite college snacks was those chocolate chip Atkins bars. Minimal aftertaste. Maximum flavor. I tried to google the ones I used to get, but it looks like they may have phased them out in favor of a HIGH-PROTEIN VERSION (shocking, I know). Regardless, in the early 2000s almost everyone seemed to have tried the Atkins Diet or knew someone who did. It is estimated that in the US, 1 in 11 people were on the Atkins Diet or some other version of a...