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Merry Christmas to me, from me. I know, cardinal rule of the Christmas season… Don’t Buy Gifts for Yourself. However, it was on sale, and it’s above a gifting price range anyway! :) So I bought the Canon PowerShot SD800 IS 7.1MP Digital Elph Camera with 3.8x Wide Angle Image-Stabilized Optical Zoom And it was [...]

Why was Spiderman 3 one of the top 100 grossing films of all time? I don’t get it. Anyway, I checked this one out at the library, I’m glad I didn’t have to pay to rent it. It was a typical Spider-man, just like the first one.  I don’t think this movie belongs on the [...]

Are you convinced? So this goal isn’t actually on the list, it’s part of the alternates, and the whole idea of “alternates” is kind of silly, but I figured I should have a few extra goals to fall back on if for instance I forget to: a) go to Vegas, b) buy a house, or [...]

Who goes on a kayak trip without knowing how to kayak? Me! Well, kayaking isn’t really that tough, you just get in and paddle. It was fun, but I’d rather spend time in the water than kayaking. I like the option of being able to kayak, but ended up spending the majority of my [...]

I totally had help with this one! My mom gave me a gorgeous pot full of shade plants and flowers. So no planting required - I just wheeled it out to the balcony. Then, I was given a tree chute, or whatever real gardeners call them. So, I went to Home Depot and bought a [...]

I hadn’t even planned to go rafting this year, maybe it was a subconscious task. Anyway, I went rafting last week. Even more fun than I expected. It was a little scary, but quite an adventure. I probably wouldn’t have liked it as much in cold water though. The rapids were class II-IV, with [...]

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia just didn’t do it for me. The title is probably the best thing about the book, but I guess that’s why you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s title (or featured destinations). I really tried to be interested in this book, but [...]

The Glass Castle is an emotional, but exceptional book. Yes, many families have their own Rex Walls, and the accuracy of the author’s childhood memories could be questioned, but that really wasn’t the point of the book for me. This memoir is about family and acceptance. While I can’t claim to have had such [...]

The purpose of writing in a work “journal” was to be able to look back and see how much I collectively accomplished in one month. Did it work? Yes and no. At first, I documented too much. :) Surprise, surprise, but it ended up being a good thing. Towards the end, I just noted what [...]

Summer is officially over. Last week’s list of “10 things that make me happy” was really fun and good for the happiness quotient. Maybe I’ll make this a weekly list. In no particular order, here are 10 things that make me happy {about fall}…

rainboots
As the rains set in, colorful rainboots make me smile. No [...]