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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…
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Start where you are
These days, I feel like I can’t do anything unless I first Google it. “hiking in South Carolina” “making magic brownies” {oh, that was research for a friend} “choosing a web host for my new WordPress site” “ranking players for 2012 fantasy football” {that didn’t work out so well, shoulda just gone with my gut} So I Googled “making my first blog post” and the only link that caught my eye was from tinyhousefamily.com, where the writer was celebrating a year of posts. She shared that her very first post was inspired by the thought to “start where you are” rather than try to tell the past and future of…