The town of Cape May is very victorian — tons of ornate, old homes converted into B&B’s.  A victorian house is my dream home (besides an earth-sheltered one), and same with my mom, so I think we were both completely envious of all of the people who get to live in Cape May.
The pricing of houses [...]

We watched the sunset every night we were in New Jersey, except for the night that we arrived (We never did get to see a sunrise… I think my parents did, but Funnel and I were never able to get up early enough.)
The beach where most people go to watch the sunset is called “Sunset [...]

I am going to try to post all of our Cape May photos in the next week. 
Funnel and I had major problems with our digital SLR on the trip (a camera malfunctioning on a trip is horrible for someone really into photography, so I was really bummed) and basically, we probably need to buy a whole [...]

A timid child, I obeyed my parents’ rule not to enter the woods that bordered on our property, but sometimes I stood at the edge and looked in.
One evening I walked about ten feet into the woods and stopped. I saw the fading sun filtered though the overgrowth, striking the ground in shafts of [...]

In less than a month, we will be vacationing for a week in the little victorian fishing village that is Cape May, with my parents and my Grandma June.

We’re going to bring bicycles, books to read on the beach (I need to catch up on my McSweeneys subscription!) and movies to watch in the evenings. [...]

I hate when I mess up really simple things at work. Everyone thinks I am incompetent and dumb when really I just get weary of doing the same things over and over and I make a stupid mistake now and then.  Man, it totally sucks.
I feel like a lost person, as far as my career [...]