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We celebrated a few week 49 holidays including Coming up this week: 8: National Brownie Day Cocoa Brownies 9: National Pastry Day French Napoleons 10: National Dewey Decimal System Day and Human Rights Day and National Lager Day “Do We” Really Know Dewey? Human Rights Day 11: International Mountain Day and National Noodle-Ring Day International…
Simplify and Prepare, Project 43 and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. November’s main theme was Files & Finances….
We celebrated a few week 48 holidays including National Cake Day and Thanksgiving. Coming up this week: 1: Eat a Red Apple Day 2: National Fritters Day and National Mutt Day and Giving Tuesday Zucchini & Corn Fritters National Mutt Day 3: National Roof Over Your Head Day 4: National Cookie Day and National Dice…
We celebrated a few week 47 holidays including Coming up this week: 24: Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day 25: National Parfait Day Breakfast buffet: National parfait day Pumpkin Mousse Parfaits 26: National Cake Day 27: Thanksgiving 28: National French Toast Day and Buy Nothing Day Buy Nothing Day 29: National Lemon Cream Pie Day 30:…
We celebrated a few week 47 holidays including National Vanilla Cupcake Day. Coming up this week: 17: Homemade Bread Day 18: National Vichyssoise Day 19: World Toilet Day and Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day World Toilet Day World Toilet Organisation Ten outstanding loos for World Toilet Day 9 Eye-Popping Photos From Taiwan’s “Modern Toilet” Restaurant…
We celebrated a few week 45 holidays including National Sandwich Day. Coming up this week: 10: National Vanilla Cupcake Day 11: National Sundae Day 12: National Pizza With Everything (Except Anchovies) Day 13: Sadie Hawkins Day and National Indian Pudding Day and World Kindness Day 14: National Pickle Day and National Spicy Guacamole Day 15:…
Simplify and Prepare, Project 43 and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. Octobber’s main theme was Travels. While our…
We celebrated a bunch of week 44 holidays including National Candy Corn Day. Coming up this week: 3: National Sandwich Day 4: Election Day and National Candy Day 5: Guy Fawkes Day 6: National Nachos Day abd National Men Make Dinner Day 7: Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day 8: National Cappuccino Day 9: National Scrapple…
We celebrated a few week 43 holidays including Coming up this week: 27: American Beer Day 28: Wild Foods Day 29: National Cat Day and National Oatmeal Day 30: National Candy Corn Day 31: Halloween November: 1: Learn to Homebrew Day and Dia de Los Muertos and National Vinegar Day 2: National Deviled Egg Day…
Slowly, slowly, I have been working to outift and decorate our condo. Alas, even as I “finish” each room, I see things that I want to change. But I’m limiting myself to a room every couple of months in order to not overwhelm myself nor our budget. Overall, I’m quite happy with how far it…
We didn’t manage to celebrate any week 42 holidays… Coming up this week: 20: National Brandied Fruit Day 21: National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day 22: National Nut Day and International Caps Lock Day 23: National Boston Cream Pie Day and Diwali 24: National Bologna Day and Good and Plenty Day 25: Make a Difference Day and…
We celebrated a few week 41 holidays including Noodle Day, Frappe Day and more! Coming up this week: 13: National Yorkshire Pudding Day 14: National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day 15: National Chicken Cacciatore Day 16: National Boss’s Day and National Liqueur Day 17: National Pasta Day 18: National Chocolate Cupcake Day 19: National Seafood Bisque Day…
For me, at least. Yes, I love connecting with my neighbors. Volunteering locally. Being a pedestrian. Buying locally. But I get lost when I am local. Backwards right? I don’t get lost in a physical sense; I’ve lived in the county for 16 years. I generally have a good sense of where I’m headed —…
We did not manage to celebrate any week 40 holidays other than National Coffee Day…I’ll do better this week!! Coming up this week: 6: Mad Hatter Day and National Noodle Day 7: National Frappe Day 8: National Fluffernutter Day 9: Leif Erikson Day and National Moldy Cheese Day 10: National Cake Decorating Day and World…
Despite having lived in Decatur three blocks from the stadium for three years now, I hadn’t been to a high school football game. Despite having a student at the high school, I haven’t been. But now I have a band student — and so now I’ve been to a game. I was surprised, actually. Surpised…
Simplify and Prepare, Project 43 and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. September’s main theme was Learn. Over the…
Each and every year, it is always “It’s so hard to believe how old she is!” But sixteen seems to be a special milestone. “Sweet Sixteen” is one of those special ages. I’m a bit self-centered about her aging. Instead of remarking on her growth, I worry about myself. Not about how old I’m getting,…
We celebrated a few week 39 holidays, including Camille’s birthday and the autumn equinox. Coming up this week: 29: National Coffee Day and Confucius Day 30: National Hot Mulled Cider Day October: 1: Balloons Around the World Day and World Vegetarian Day and Homemade Cookies Day 2: National Fried Scallops Day 3: National Caramel Custard…
If you’ve been following along with my Happiness Project, which I restarted again almost a year ago, the main focus for this year (though it wasn’t at first) is to SIMPLIFY and PREPARE. As I’ve discussed before, I have had a decade or more of feeling as though “I don’t have time for this!” whatever…
We celebrated a few week 38 holidays, including National Cheeseburger Day. Coming up this week: 22: National White Chocolate Day and Elephant Appreciation Day and Ice Cream Cone Day and Family Day 23: Checkers Day and Fall Equinox 24: National Cherries Jubilee Day and National Punctuation Day 25: National Comic Book Day 26: Love Note…