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Empower and Energy, Project 44 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. Octobers’s main theme was Travel. And I…
Today is Election Day and National Sandwich Day. The girls had the day off from school, so the morning was a little bit more relaxed. I took care of things, cleaned, cleaned the turtle’s cage, walked the dog, and worked. The girls had friends over later in the morning; I read a bit and then…
Been a while since my last book update. My trip to France put everything else on hold, and I’m now slowly getting back into the rhythm of ordering books from the library and reading them …. This week I finished one book, The Rocks by Peter Nichols. Really enjoyed it. On Sunday, Camille and I…
Today is National Deviled Egg Day and Cookie Monster Day. Up early to clean, take care of things, walk Phelix, and work. After work, I went to the library and the gym. When I got home, I took care of various things. Chloe and Chloe came home, and I started making pad thai for dinner….
We celebrated a number of week 44 holidays, including Coming up this week: 2: National Deviled Egg Day and Cookie Monster Day 3: Election Day and National Sandwich Day 4: National Candy Day 5: Guy Fawkes Day and National Men Make Dinner Day 6: National Nachos Day 7: Learn to Homebrew Day and Bittersweet Chocolate…
Today is Learn to Homebrew Day and National Vinegar Day and Dia de los Muertos and National Deep Fried Clams Day. Up early-ish (thanks fall back!) to tackle my to-do list. After breakfast, we sat down to a marathon familly meeting to nail down a lot of open questions and plans. We also picked up…
Today is Halloween and National Caramel Apple Day. Rob left early to go kayaking. Camille and I had a slow morning, getting things done at a nice pace. I also spent time finishing a book. Chloe came home and read and got ready to go trick-or-treating. Rob got home, and I went out to volunteering…
Today is National Candy Corn Day and Checklist Day and Frankenstein Friday. Up early to take care of things. Done with work early, so I went to the gym and had the trainer walk me through my arms workout after my warmup walk. My arms felt like jelly afterwards! And then 32 minutes on the…
When the kids were younger, we always made a point of seeking out great parks while on our travels. We looked for fun and different playgrounds, places for them to explore, and open spaces to balance out being in the confines of cars, museums, hotel rooms. Now that they are a bit older, we don’t…
Today is National Cat Day and National Oatmeal Day. Up early to take care of the usual things. Work was complex because of some server upgrades. I headed out to the gym for my personal training session. I was nervous, but it went well. I walked on the treadmill, then headed home to work more….
Today is Wild Foods Day and Global Champagne Day and National Chocolate Day and International Animation Day. Up early for the usual morning routine: get the girls up, walk Phelix, clean, work. Mid-morning, I headed out to the gym and talked to the trainer about formulating a plan and routine; he was quite helpful! I…
Today is American Beer Day. Rob left early for the airport to fly to Florida. I worked in the morning (Very frustrating as every tool server was not working properly), then went to the Red Cross to volunteer. In the afternoon, I took care of various chores and errands, then started playing with online college…
Been a while since my last book update. My trip to France put everything else on hold, and I’m now slowly getting back into the rhythm of ordering books from the library and reading them …. In the past couple of weeks, I finished two books. One I bought in the airport in Paris to…
Today is National Pumpkin Day. Up early to do all the things. After working for 5 hours (mostly fighting with administrative details), I headed out to run all the errands. Police Department, library, Redbox, bank, LA Fitness, Target. After I got home, unpacked everything, and showered, I read for a little while. When Chloe got…
We celebrated few week 43 holidays, but did have some Good & Plentys. Coming up this week: 26: National Pumpkin Day 27: American Beer Day 28: Wild Foods Day and Global Champagne Day and National Chocolate Day and International Animation Day 29: National Cat Day and National Oatmmeal Day 30: National Candy Corn Day and…
Today is Mother-In-Law Day and National Greasy Foods Day. Phelix and I went for an early morning hike at Arabia. When we got home, we had an extended family meeting to deal with a variety of upcoming things. In the afternoon, I volunteered with Police CAPS at the Halloween Parade; so many irate people! Chloe…
Today is National Bologna Day and Good and Plenty Day and Make a Difference Day. Woke with an awful headache. By 2pm, I realized that I have this same awful headache every year on the Halloween Parade weekend. Clearly I’m allergic to something in the air here. No idea what it might be. had planned…
While I’m not a huge fan of Good and Plenty — I don’t like licorice very much — I do love the iconic status of this pretty candy …. And this video is cool too….
Today is National Boston Cream Pie Day and Diwali. Up early to get the girls going, clean, take care of things, walk Phelix, and work. I took the car over to Pure for a car wash, met Stacy for brunch, worked, picked up the car, went to the gym, worked and then finally relaxed. Camille…
While in Dublin, we let Camille choose something she wanted to do … she chose the Decorative Arts & History Museum. My mom, Camille and I walked over there and spend a couple of hours exploring. We let Camille go off on her own after a bit, and Camille enjoyed her time there.