Rabbit rabbit! If you don’t read Stress and Stars you should, because Katie has a beautiful way with words and a cute baby to boot. She’s started a project called “Find Joy in November” where every day, she wants to…
Archives for 2015
The Martian book review
The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was in the house because it was WM’s school’s “one book one school” choice for last summer.Since the movie is out and doing well, I thought I’d grab…
Throwback Thursday: September 1985
September 1985. The bad hair choices begin… Isn’t this the hair every girl wants on their thirteenth birthday? Items of note: We are both wearing San Diego tee shirts, although we never visited there as kids. My grandfather lived there…
Throwback Thursday: July 1983
In this picture, I’m 10 years old and still torturing my family by making them watch me do magic. I was a HORRRRRRRRIIIIIIBLLLLLE magician. My hands were always too small for the tricks. Even the kid sized tricks like what…
Mistakes I Made at Work book review
Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong by Jessica Bacal My rating: 3 of 5 stars I popped this book on my list after watching the author speak on…
Zumba, week 2
This was my second week back. It got a little easier, because I was slightly more familiar with the moves. I’m better with the cha cha cha routines than the mambo routines. You’d think all the nights I spent watching…
Throwback Thursday: Winter, 1999
No date on the back of this photo, but I bought this sweatshirt while I was working at the Disney store. I started there in fall of 1998. The cut and color of my hair makes me think this was…
The Macaroni and Cheese button is REAL!
After years of chasing packages that were “lost” by the post office and/or the maintenance office at the Dee-luxe Apartment in the sky, it is a joy and a pleasure to order from the internet and have the boxes on…
Modern Romance book review
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari My rating: 4 of 5 stars Why is it so hard to meet The One? In this book Aziz Ansari looks at the modern dating world in a way that only a stand-up comic who…
Drink and cry
Every now and then WM and I travel separately. Sometimes he goes to visit his family solo. Sometimes I travel for work. It’s how it goes and while we’re never apart for long, sometimes we are apart.I don’t know what…
Friday 5 on Saturday: Up and Autumn
Happy Saturday! The last 2 nights I’ve been passing out on the sofa between 9 and 10pm, so I welcome this weekend with open arms. And then this morning, I woke up with what seems to be a cold, so…
Throwback Thursday: December 1973
Rabbit rabbit! I’m glad it’s October because September well and truly sucked. Yuck. No date on the back of this one, but I’m positive it’s Christmas 1973. This is an actual Polaroid picture. For the younger readers, this is what…