After a summer of living lean as a result of being a one income house, I’ve been trying to keep the spirit of minimalism going now that I’m back to being gainfully employed. So here are a few things that have made me very happy lately, for very little money, that you might like to [...]
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I think that sometime after reading one too many “and then I did this, and then I did this…” posts sometime in the spring I made a subconscious decision to move away from writing a running narrative on my life, and to move towards telling stories in bits and pieces. But after reading some very [...]
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When we went on our road trip to Minneapolis last month, we took the puppies. It was our first road trip with them and, while it was fun, it was a lot like traveling with exceedingly hairy, foreign language babbling toddlers- it’s something you can push through, but not something you’d really enjoy. So when [...]
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Friday is for…
…beautiful, amazing friends getting engaged – congrats Em!!!
…watching Franz Ferdinand play their hearts out, climb the sound cables up to a balcony in the theatre, and have my ears still ringing 24+ hours after the show.
…bottoming out & bucking up.
…kenneling the dogs for the first time.
…daydreaming of State Fairs, college football, kettle corn, [...]

So the last mix tape I made was a fiasco. It wouldn’t stream, wouldn’t download, wouldn’t do anything (that’s now fixed, you can listen!) but please cross your fingers for me that this one works and be kind if it doesn’t!
I’m breaking up with summer this week. I’m the opposite of all the Texan/Cali bloggers [...]
