By RocketGirl75, on April 27th, 2009%
Yesterday RocketMan and I took a jaunt through the furniture stores in the Mission, and found two rockers that are near-perfect for our needs: small footprint, comfortable, and super-cool looking, to boot. Alas, one cost $1300, and the other, $450. We’re in the market to spend $300-ish at most, although I’d be willing to go higher . . . → Read More: Have you seen this rocker?
By RocketGirl75, on April 25th, 2009%

The hallway-cum-office-cum-library-cum-nursery
Some things about pregnancy, I’m finding, are awfully fun. Last week I popped—meaning the woman at Golden Gate Meat Company, the receptionist at my office, the co-owner of the market across the street, and a guy in my neighborhood all feel free to ask when I’m due and/or if I’m in the family way. . . . → Read More: Crib or Pack'n'Play? Pack'n'Play or Bassinet? Bassinet or Moses Basket?
By RocketGirl75, on April 9th, 2009%

If Autobots wage battle to destroy the evil forces in this chair, I’ll kick them back to Cybertron. Of all the goodies we found at the Alameda Flea Market last Sunday (among them a framed puzzle of naked women playing croquet), the Deceptachair cannot be topped. It was one of the on-the-way-out finds, and for a . . . → Read More: Meet the Deceptachair.
By RocketGirl75, on April 2nd, 2009%

As I’m home sick with a cold, and no hope of symptom relief from my usual OTC drugs, I figured I’d pick an easy topic: shelves. Shelves are the small-space inhabitant’s zinc. It’s her TheraFlu. Her warm bath followed by Vicks Vaporub. Shelves save precious floor space, are reasonably easy to install, and best of all, . . . → Read More: Did I mention we're into shelves?