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Some of my favorite travel magazines and publications
When I shared our tentative travel plans for 2013, I said I’d share some of my planning process. Today I received some fun snail mail: the latest issue of Travel+Leisure and a travel planning package from the State of Texas. I love travel magazines! Right now I only subscribe to Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Travel+Leisure and Kansas! Magazine but I have at one time or another also subscribed to: Caribbean Travel & Life Condé Nast Traveler Florida Travel+Life International Living Islands National Geographic Traveler Probably others but that’s all I can remember for now. I also love reading the in-flight magazines when I fly. I get ideas on where I…
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I want to leave the dermatologist’s office feeling violated
I had my annual appointment at the dermatologist last week. In case you didn’t get the memo from the American Cancer Society, you should see a doctor for an annual skin check just like you should see your doctor for a check of your other bits. I don’t want to chance it since I’m whiter than the whitest white girl. I’ve been going annually to a dermatologist for maybe eight years and I always leave the appointment disappointed. I’m not sure how to say this without sounding really demented – I want to leave the dermatologist’s office feeling violated. I mean, just a little violated. Like, feet-in-the-stirrups-knees-fall-open violated, not waking-up-after-a-dental-procedure-with-my-shirt-unbuttoned…
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Apparently I’m an asshole of a gift giver
I love giving gifts, and usually I think I’m pretty good at it. I like to surprise people, I’m generous, I usually put a lot of thought into what I give. Well, friends, I failed miserably this Christmas with my husband. Apparently giving a book of fiction written in the voice of a dog to a guy who just had to put down his 15½-year-old dog isn’t a good choice. Seems obvious, you say? Well not to me, it didn’t. I’ve not read The Art of Racing in Rain by Garth Stein but I’d heard good things about it and the idea of a book written from a dog’s perspective…
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2013 Travel: Let the planning begin
View 2013 Trip Planning in a larger map Lee & I have made it a sort-of annual tradition to sit down on New Year’s Day and outline how we want to spend our vacation days and dollars for the coming year. Sometimes we have a trip already booked but this year it’s a pretty clean slate. Lots of ideas but nothing booked. We always leave room for spur-of-the-moment trips and weekend excursions, but we like to start planning some of the big trips. Here’s what’s on our list for the year: Texas I’ve been talking for years about wanting to see P!nk in concert. So when the new album came…
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Adam Corolla killed my Kindle Fire
My friend John has been telling me to listen to Adam Corolla’s podcast for years. YEARS. But I never got around to it, even though many of the stories John would share from the podcasts cracked me up. Last night I was searching the tunein app on my Kindle Fire for something to listen to as I fell asleep. That’s a habit I’ve had for about 10 years now: more often than not, I have to have something playing to fall asleep. I prefer talk radio because listening to a story settles my mind and allows me to fall asleep. The TV would work just as well but since Lee…