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Celebrating My Birthday With Duran Duran

  It started this past April.  My high school friend “E” sent me a private message on Facebook telling me Duran Duran would be performing in Memphis on August 17, three days before my 38th birthday.  Did I want to make plans to meet up and View Post

This Is The Life

Clyde.  Clyde, Clyde, Clyde. Clyde that wakes me up at least twice a night to be fed, let out, etc.  Every night I am up and down with this cat.  Come mornings, at 4:30 A.M. to be precise, I stumble and bumble my way through my View Post

Cable & Internet Service- What Do You Pay?

Because we live in a small town, we’re pretty much at the mercy of one cable company and two cell phone companies to meet our communications needs. I’ve thought about switching our cable to satellite, but I don’t want to lose our local programming, View Post

Ungrateful

Yesterday, I had a pretty big bout of the "ungratefuls". I stomped around and huffed and puffed until I finally took a break and ran to the grocery store. The little "alone time" in doing that left me feeling pretty ridiculous by the time I had View Post

Saddle Up, Cowboy!

This past Saturday E.B. got to experience his first horse ride.  He went to a cowboy-themed birthday party at a real barn out in the country.  It was absolutely freezing, but that didn’t stop my little guy from thoroughly enjoying View Post

Word For The New Year

  As I sat at my computer on New Year's Eve, I had already planned out what my "word" for the new year would be. I had thought it out carefully and was pretty satisfied with what I had chosen and why. I can be somewhat of a procrastinator View Post

Addicted To Pinterest

Ok, raise your hand if you're currently fighting an addiction to Pinterest. Yeah, me too. I've been totally guilty of staying up way too late the past few nights just drooling over the amazing ideas I'm finding there for everything from home decor to View Post

Royal Wedding 2011 Recap

While the general public who could have cared less is probably glad the hoopla surrounding the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is finally winding down, I still can’t get enough of the spectacular display of pomp and circumstance View Post

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