First, a “Non-disclosure Disclosure”: I am not being compensated in any way by the brands mentioned in this post (I WISH). The mention of their names is important to the flow of my story. Thanks for your time and attention. J and I stopped at the grocery store last night on the way home from a post-lacrosse game dinner out with Jim, who drove separately. We were walking through the health and beauty section when J disappeared into the next aisle over. Eventually I made my way over to him, just in time to see him place a hand on a bottle of Flintstone’s Sour Gummies vitamins. “What do you…
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Live Blogging The Royal Wedding: It’s A Dirty Job, But Somebody’s Gotta Do It.
That’s right, I’m doing it. When the engagement was announced, I giddily recorded a video exposing my terrible “secret” and excitedly spoke about how I would make “big plans” for the wedding. I had intended to have some friends come and spend the night, or get a hotel suite in the city (seriously). Unfortunately but also very fortunately, my life’s bigger plans got in the way of making those big plans, and now here it is, less than twelve hours before Catherine becomes the newest Royal, and I’ve got nada. I had to plan SOMETHING. So I did. Due to the fact that I have a feeling Twitter is going…
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From “Never Say Never” To “Better Late Than Never”
I had big plans to post about the Justin Bieber movie (“Never Say Never”) first thing this morning, but things got busy, and then I had to leave the house, and you know the rest. I still want to get it in under the wire before midnight, since I said I’d do it TODAY, and so I’m in a “better late than never” situation. I’m sure most of you have been on the edge of your seats all day, just waiting for me to click “publish”. Right? So without further ado, let me share with you my Bieb-sperience. I tried to get Jim and/or J to go to the movie…
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To Bieb Or Not To Bieb, That Is The Question.
Last Thanksgiving weekend, my family was part of an audience in a local movie theater that had tremendous problems with sound quality for the first few minutes. On our way out, management handed everyone a complimentary ticket for another visit (classy: I love that they did that proactively, before some of the crankier audience members took it upon themselves to mutiny). The tickets have been magnetized to our refrigerator since that day, and I just noticed last week that they will expire this Wednesday. Jim and I used two of the tickets for “The King’s Speech” yesterday*. In trying to decide what other movie to use the tickets for, I…
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On Having A Brain That Won’t Turn Off
I’m a thinker. I can’t help it. I’m also a worrier. Can’t help that, either.I have to add “Control Freak” to that list, too, while I’m at it. This combination is a deadly trifecta for anyone who enjoys, well, sleeping. Or relaxing. Normally I don’t sleep much anyway; harboring extreme jealousy of those who claim to get their eight hours every night, I usually hover around the six-hour mark when it comes to the actual amount of time I’m in bed. Sleeping time runs anywhere from four to five hours. When many of you are enjoying your zzzz’s, I’m solving important problems, like “what happens if something that is totally…
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Double Dog Dare…Done.
I am very comfortable behind a camera. Though I still (Yes, STILL. Sigh.) use an old point and shoot camera whose left side is held together by hot pink duct tape, I take lots and lots of pictures. When I tell people that I went away for three days and took five hundred pictures, they are shocked, but that’s how it is: I’ve always tried to capture just about everything when I have my camera with me. Though I do hand the camera over to someone else so I can appear with my family in front of it (wouldn’t want the kids to think their mom was never around!), I’m…
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Here’s Another Lame Post About 2011 Goals
Jumping on the bandwagon, that’s me. I try not to make resolutions, because I like goals better. What? They’re basically the same thing? Oh. Well anyway, I have a couple of goals for this year; I actually listed them back in November, on my birthday, and I’ve got a running start on that last one. I learned some big lessons about time management when I was busy organizing closets and such, in December. Remember how I told you that I put my Productivity Project tasks on my calendar, to hold myself accountable? Well, guess what? I used to do that, years ago, for my workouts. It was a strategy that…
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When Good Stalking Leads To A Great Marriage
Once a month, our temple’s Friday night services include Birthday and Anniversary blessings. It’s a really great tradition, and there’s something about having the rabbi and cantor give a blessing for the upcoming year (being witnessed by the congregation, of course!) that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Jim and I do our best to, as he says, “Go get our blessing” every year, and we did just that two weeks ago. At this part of the service, the rabbi calls all couples who are celebrating a wedding anniversary up to the bimah. As you can imagine, December is not one of the more popular months for weddings, and…
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Analyze This: The Doors and Windows Question
One of the things I’ve learned over the past six weeks in regards to myself as a “photographer” (I have to put that in quotes; I’m not sure why.) is that I really, really enjoy taking photographs of doors and windows. Open or closed, it doesn’t matter. Plain or decorated, it doesn’t matter. What does that say about me as a person? I’m certain that there is some special meaning hidden somewhere; it probably tells something about my personality. Hey Holger, what are you doing there? An “expert” might say that I like to look for other ways of doing things. Or that I am the type of person who…
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Worrywart
I was on the phone with Michelle on Monday night, chatting about this and that when somehow we got around to how crazed we can get, worrying about all kinds of things from the large to the miniscule. I was telling her about all the things I have going on, and how I feel like I need to get certain things finished in order to have peace of mind. As we continued our conversation, we discussed how most of the pressure we have on our shoulders was placed there by none other than…ourselves. To me, that’s a more difficult pressure to work with than if it had been placed on…