Flashback Friday ~ Lowtide at Tarague

With all this snow and cold, I’ve been flashing back to those wonderful days at the beach when we lived in Guam. I was tan, in-shape, warm and happy! The long weekend is coming up and Favorite Man wants to go to Canada to ski. All I can think of is flying somewhere warm ~ too [...]

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Could Someone Hit The Pause Button…

I wish there was a pause button for life (wasn’t that a recent movie?)! Time is whipping by and I’m not keeping up. My Favorite Girl turned 11 and she’s speeding toward the teen years. Her birthday celebration included a sleep-over with 4 of her bestest friends.  Pizza and cake at night with Dunkin Donuts [...]

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gods behaving badly

I won the book, gods behaving badly written by Marie Phillips, in a giveaway by Books on the Brain. What a treat. It arrived while I was reading the Twilight series so it got put to the side until I finished with those books.
Summary of the book: 12 Greek gods, with waning powers, living in modern day London, all cramped into [...]

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Loving the New Job

It’s been over a month since I started my new job and I’m loving it. I’m still having a time-management problem which is mainly because I try to do too much before work and during my lunch hour. My mom has been here about a month and we’ve all come to rely on her so [...]

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Feeling A Lot Less Guilty

Thanks to Books on the Brain, I’m feeling a lot less guilty about my all-consuming weekend of reading. Since I started reading Twilight and New Moon, I’ve been neglecting Favorite Man, Girl and Grandma Betty. Only the dogs were happy with my reading since they got to lay next to me and got petted occassionally.  Feeling guilty, I [...]

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Happy New Year!

For the second year in a row, we spent New Year’s eve just down the street with our friends and neighbors. It’s so nice to do something in the same location for a second year in a row. Some of our friends here laugh that we’re so excited to be settled for a few years. [...]

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