Posted in daily-life, family, life, life-in-general on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
…which you’d think would have been obvious before.
1. If you live on a dirt road in a particularly windy geographical area, you will be dusting much more often. Much, much more often. Particularly in warm weather, when the windows are open.
2. Goats are great for eating weeds. But they don’t know the [...]
Posted in daily-life, life on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I woke to a misty sky and snow-covered ground, though it was in the 60s just yesterday.
Once the sun had made its way through the haze, brightening the trees and tinting our dirt road yellow, the snow began to melt and disappear.
Before it had gone completely, more snow was falling.
The sun eventually turned the snow [...]
Posted in daily-life, fun, love, marriage on December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have this horrible paradox in my personality: I love surprises and hate it when they’re blown. But I also compulsively try to figure things out, even when I have next to no information to work with.
Many times over our almost sixteen years together (that counts dating), Pete has said seemingly benign things about gifts [...]
Posted in daily-life, family, fun, life, love, marriage, sports on October 30, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I grew up in a football-loving household. And I’m not just talking about the men. My mother whooped and hollered right along with my dad–even louder. It was the perfect training ground for my future role as wife to a Cheese-headed Packer Backer.
I have often heard women complain about their husbands’ fascinations with [...]
Posted in daily-life, life on October 16, 2007 | 18 Comments »
I am a horrible procrastinator. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who isn’t, so at least there’s comfort in that. But one of my little tricks to get around my procrastination and actually get things done is to procrastinate in reverse.
When you get right down to it, procrastination is my self-centered wish [...]
Posted in daily-life, life, life-in-general, tagged dieting, exercise, fitness on October 15, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I realize that cutting back on calories and getting up early to exercise makes me more irritable than usual. Perhaps that’s why it’s been relatively simple for me to make the following list of fitness-specific irritants.
1. Perky people on exercise videos. I’ve only been able to handle my Tae-Bo video one time, and it’s not [...]
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