Is anyone else sad that the Olympics are over? I found myself watching more sports over the past few weeks than normal, like most people, I think.
I think my new favorite sport is the winter biathlon. Cross country skiing combined with rifle shooting? Awesome. Ski really hard, then stop and shoot at a target. Miss, [...]
The office is a bit slow today, so my coworkers got into a big conversation about marriage (I think it may have started with Tiger Woods). That morphed into a conversation about family finances, and it was very eye opening.
One coworker thinks that when a couple gets married, each person should put a percentage of [...]
My uncle, a musician, wants to buy me a guitar for Christmas. I’m really excited about this – I really really would love to have a guitar. And when he asked me what I liked, I gave him some general ideas, but stressed that while I wanted something that would sound good, I’m a relative [...]
I admit it. I’m all about the sentimental value. So I was really excited when my sister arrived this weekend with a gift from my mom that she told me about a few months back.
A couple of years ago, my mom decided to get a new wedding set. She took it in for a cleaning [...]
As I’m writing this entry, it’s still Friday, and the weekend is getting closer and closer. I usually use the weekend to write and get ahead on posts, but this weekend, my sister is coming to visit, and I don’t want to have to take time to blog when I could be spending that time [...]