Oreck Magnesium Giveaway!! ($600 value)
Right before Thanksgiving, I remember thinking, "I wish someone was hosting a vacuum cleaner giveaway or blogging campaign or SOMETHING" because my extended family was coming to spend a few nights, there was LOTS of cleaning to do, and my years' old...
FREE Starbucks!
Love Starbucks because their Jedi Mind Tricks have worked and you think it's the best coffee in the world? Hate Starbucks because of their marketing prowess in convincing you it's WORTH $5 for a 1.5-ounce shot of espresso in your favorite coffee drink?...
Picturesque & poetic: an Ode to Dunkin Donuts
My intention was singular: I needed a Bavarian Cream doughnut for Clue #2. O.n.e. Bavarian Cream doughnut (or "Krapfen" as my imaginary German friend Herr Höferle informed me). But, good gravy…when I walked through the...
Cure for hiccups
My youngest has sworn by this cure for months, but I've been skeptical. Until tonight. I didn't just have the hiccups, I had the hiccup-burps; much more annoying and completely unladylike. So I figured I had nothing to lose and protein to gain....
Around/About ~ The “5 wonderful links NOT to miss” edition
A collection of links I love, sites I like, interesting reads or cool happenings nearby. I cannot find the source for the photograph above, but everything about it is breathes fire! I can at least hattip where I found it, at Esther Maria Swaty's...
Roar’s whisper
Ten…twenty years ago I was a lion. Loud, proud, a conqueror. I knew things. I was sure and strong and bold and confident. I'd invite you in but I controlled the distance; you just didn't realize that. Something about my...
I’ve got some explainin’ to do…!
Even my husband questioned some of my clues, so here's the 4-1-1 on their significance: Clue #1 ~ Pachelbel's canon in D Major: German composer Clue #2 ~ A Bavarian cream-filled doughnut Clue #3 ~ Levi's jeans, invented by Levi Strauss, born in...
The Year of Living Dangerously
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~ Helen Keller She’s looking me dead in the eyes when she speaks, a gaze so deeply penetrating its intensity makes me want to look away…but I can’t. “God is getting ready to do a work in you not possible when you’re...