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27
Mar

Saturday 6

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1) I have been listening to the "Lungs" album by Florence + the Machine for hours on end. I love it. 2) Today we went to our local garden center/hardware store and bought cilantro, rosemary, parsley, sage, basil, dill, chives, and lavender, plus a little strawberry plant. We–okay, Steve–affixed some planters to the wrought-iron railing of our back porch, and we planted them! I have for serious never planted anything before. I am notorious for killing plants by forgetting to water them. We have a bamboo plant that we received as a housewarming gift in September, which Steve has managed to keep alive and actually thriving, and it is a source of great astonishment and glee. But there’s something about spring now that I have my own yard. It was really fun, and: 3) I’m looking forward to more planting. Besides some general weeding & mulching around our five rosebushes,...
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25
Mar

Question Friday: Indulgences Edition

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Thank you so much to everyone who’s already commented on my library-loving challenge. If you haven’t, please leave a comment on the post below this one! How do you spoil yourself when you need to unwind? Massage OR mani/pedi? Retail therapy: books OR shoes? Dark chocolate OR a glass of wine? Bubble bath OR a nap? More retail therapy: New music from iTunes OR new earrings? Bonus: movie OR a nice dinner out? Do you have a favorite method I’m missing?
22
Mar

Library-loving Challenge

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I love libraries. I grew up in a little town. There were more cows and apple trees than people. Friday night football games and Farm Show were a big deal. There was one high school with grades seven through twelve; a lot of the teachers taught my parents too. There was one pizza & sub shop, one 7-11, one grocery store, one video store, one hardware store. That was it. No bookstore. The nearest thing was a Waldenbooks forty minutes away, and you would not believe how over-the-moon excited my sisters and I were about monthly trips there. During the summers, though, my stepdad drove us to the library in the next town over. My sisters and I had our own library cards, and we checked out stacks of books that stretched to our chins. I gobbled up Sunfire romances and Victoria Holt mysteries and Alexandra Ripley’s historical romances. I’ve been...
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19
Mar

Question Friday: Ice Cream Treats

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  It’s SPRING! Yay! According to the Washington Post, yesterday’s forecast was “delightful with sunshine,” and the entire weekend promises sunshine and temperature in the 70s. The caf was giving away free ice cream treats the other day. In this spirit of frozen deliciousness: 1.       Ice cream sandwich OR nutty buddy cone? 2.       Strawberry shortcake ice cream bar OR chocolate éclair ice cream bar? 3.       Orange cream bars or vanilla crunch bars? 4.       Fudge pop or old school popsicle? 5.       Popsicles: strawberry, orange, or grape? (The grape ones always languished in my house.) Bonus: What’s your favorite ice cream treat? I’d have to go with the ice cream sandwich myself, although the strawberry shortcake bars are also made of nom.
18
Mar

On To-Do Lists & Guilt

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I love making to-do lists. Lists of goals that I will accomplish by such-and-such a time. Lists of dreams for my career and my life. Ideally, these lists motivate me to get things done. They keep me from reading the internets all day and remind me of what it is I value. Then they provide me with a sense of accomplishment. I *love* crossing things off my lists. I have been known to write down things I’ve just done, for the joy of slashing through the words with my little purple pencil. But lately I’ve noticed that these goals feel less like inspiration and motivation, and more like a seething source of guilt. I have not scrubbed our three bathrooms, though it has been on my house to-do list since…I’m not telling when. There are cat-hair tumbleweeds in the corners of the stairs; "vacuum stairs" has been right beneath "scrub...
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