Spring Cleaning

March 28, 2012 Unplugged

I’ve got a horrid cold and I’m feeling miserable.  I got this cold about two seconds after spring officially started and I got all uppity congratulating myself that I hadn’t gotten sick all winter. Will I ever learn? This cold, like all others, doesn’t actually make me sick.  It just makes me SOUND horrid and [...]

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How to Help a North-Facing Room Feel Warm and Cozy

March 23, 2012 Home

I live in a 1960s era 2-story colonial-style tract house. It’s situated north and south which means most of the rooms are either flooded with southern light (back of the house) or receive cooler, indirect northern light (the front of the house.) In the past 15 years it’s safe to say our family only used [...]

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Love This Salad!

March 21, 2012 Food

It’s spooky, but Nancy and I seem to live parallel lives.  One of the reasons we started this blog was because over and over again we found ourselves looking for solutions to similar problems at the same time. Anyway, I was looking for a new salad recipe a while back and found one that looked [...]

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How to Iron a Shirt Like a Professional

March 16, 2012 Home

Into every woman (and man’s) life a little ironing must fall. In my younger, more energy-filled, pre-children days I used to launder and iron my husband’s shirts. Then came Julie, followed 18 months later by Jon and Megan. I never looked back to the ironing board and Alan made friends with our next-door-neighbor who owned [...]

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When Using Cash Makes Sense

March 12, 2012 Unplugged

Nancy and I were recently having a conversation about shopping locally, and she brought up a great point that I thought was worth sharing… Now all of you know that we’re big both fans of shopping locally.  We love our local gift shops like The Purple Poppy and Momentum.  We love our local coffee shops [...]

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How to Save Money on the Dr. Oz 48-Hour Cleanse Diet

March 4, 2012 Food

Last week I reported on my 2-day cleanse diet, created by Dr. Oz, and recently featured in Oprah magazine. Judging from all the comments, lots of people are trying it and many of the comments relate to the expense of the ingredients. As I mentioned in my first post, I used the shopping list from [...]

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2012 Trends in Bras

March 2, 2012 Looking Good

Interesting factoid: The average bra size in the U.S. is 36DD. Over the past few months I’ve come across some excellent articles about bras and trends in bras. It’s time to share! Since sewing is one of my hobbies I follow several sewing blogs. One of the fabulous things about accomplished sewists is they understand all [...]

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Fred and Friends Makes Me Smile

February 28, 2012 Gifts

Every once in a while, I need to buy a little something to make me smile.  Or make somebody else smile.  Just a little something. I’m not a big fan of retail therapy.  Usually shopping doesn’t make me feel better – most times I can’t find anything I like or nothing fits and then I [...]

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Dr. Oz’s 48 Hour Cleanse Diet: Final Report

February 24, 2012 Food

My husband, Alan, and I finished the Dr. Oz 48 hour cleanse diet. When I left you I was heading to sip my first pineapple-kale juice snack. I don’t have a juicer so this drink was made by running pineapple, kale, cucumbers, mint and water through a blender and straining out the juice. Very beautiful [...]

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A Drink for Your Beats

February 21, 2012 Interesting Sites

This week, I’m circling the wagons and concentrating on family. So while I’m doing other things, I thought I’d give YOU something to do.  My Very Good Friend Terry introduced me to Drinkify recently. Prepare to be entertained…. It works like this – type in who’s spinning on your turntable (or if you’re under 60, [...]

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