On the left side of the sanity bell curve
Have you ever had a friend ask you to read their book and get maybe just a twinge of dread? No? Just me? Liar. It’s not that I necessarily expect the book to suck. My writer friends are pretty awesome writers so I expect what they send me to be at least decent. Maybe even awesome. But that dread?… Continue reading Aloha Also Means Goodbye Book Review
Facebook is everywhere now and just about everyone I know “in real life” has taken the plunge and signed up–including my mom and father in law [Hi, guys!]. Though it’s become this integral part of most of our lives, there’s always more to learn. Things I bet you didn’t even know you wanted to know–like… Continue reading Facebook All-In-One for Dummies Review
One of the things we’ve struggled with when it comes to Cara is her idea that money is “free”…as in it comes from the money gods in the sky or something. A way we’ve been trying to teach her the finite quality of money is by having Cara put her money in her piggy bank.… Continue reading Modern Version of the Ole Piggy Bank: Virtual Piggy
[.] My hair hates Alabama. We have hard water and my hair has pretty much given up looking shiny like it did when we lived in Arkansas. Every now and then I’ll get lucky and my hair won’t look like a Brillo pad but that doesn’t happen very often. I cut the build up by… Continue reading Fekkai’s Essential Shea Ultra Rich Mask To Repair Hair Abuse
When I first started thinking about having a garden at our new house, I imagined fertile, black soil. I imagined cool breezes with just enough sun to warm your skin. What I never got around to imagining was hard, red clay and days straight with no sun and potting soil stuffed so far up under… Continue reading Fields & Lane Forester Gardening Glove Review and Giveaway!
When my doctor told me to take 60mg of iron, I searched five different stores before I was finally able to find what I needed. At each store, I asked either a store associate or someone behind the pharmacy counter for help. About half the time the person was able to at least find where… Continue reading Nutrition Possible and Win a $25 AMEX Gift Card
Thanks to Duncan Hines for sponsoring my writing. There’s no limit to the baking possibilities, so grab your favorite Duncan Hines mix and Comstock or Wilderness fruit fillings and Bake On! www.duncanhines.com. When it comes to the holidays, deserts and drinks seem to be in abundance. Figuring out what to serve together isn’t rocket science… Continue reading Holiday Dessert and Drink Pairings: Not As Hard As You Think
Thanks to L’Oreal for sponsoring my post about my favorite beauty looks, tips and tricks! Check out Makeup.com for beauty advice from the experts. Moving is a great way to discover stuff you forgot you had. Clothes, money, socks…makeup. I’m not suggesting you should move just so you can find all the stuff you lost… Continue reading Gold Eyeshadow Or Using Makeup From Highschool Because You’re Chicken is Not Only Weird But Also Gross
Shutterfly contacted me this year and asked me to host a giveaway where three of you get codes for 25 free holiday cards. Also, if you’re a blogger, you get an extra chance to win 25 free cards–if you don’t mind, will you put that you heard about the promotion from my site cause that… Continue reading Enter To Win 25 Free Shutterfly Holiday Cards!
Thank you to Cube Dog for sponsoring this review. For more information about Cube Dog please visit the Facebook page or download it on iTunes. Tucker and I love to play video games–if you haven’t noticed–and we’ve passed the point where we can play whatever we want around Cara and Ollie. Either the game is… Continue reading Cara and Ollie Try Out the Cube Dog App
OK. Maybe YOU’RE not dirty but your house is. Your clothes are getting ratty. You don’t know the meaning of pinch or poach. And you didn’t realize any of these horrors until you read Heather Solos’s book, Home-Ec 101: Skills for Everyday Living–titled after her wildly popular website. Well now you think you shouldn’t read… Continue reading Buy Heather Solos’s Home-Ec 101 Because You’re Dirty
I must admit I’m not quite sure how to start out a post about me calling for a psychic reading because I got a DM on Twitter from Cecily. But I guess that pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? I went digging through the Hollywood Psychics site and you’d think some of those folks… Continue reading Ten Minutes of a Psychic Reading for Me
