Month: December 2009

  • Borrowed words

    On Wednesday night Andy and I flew down to Georgia/South Carolina to attend Andy’s brother’s graduation from boot camp. He is now a United States Marine. He looks great, sounds great, and seems happy. We are extremely proud of him. We are also extremely still in Georgia. We figured we came all the way down…

  • All shapes & sizes

    Continuing with the Best of 2009 Challenge… December 15 Best packaging. Did your headphones come in a sweet case? See a bottle of tea in another country that stood off the shelves? This prompt is especially relevant because I work at a graphic design firm. We specialize in branding and packaging, so I breathe this…

  • For the record, I rocked Alex’s bridal shower today. I say this only because I spent all week stressing about it, and hours prepping for it, and still on the way there today I was freaking out that I didn’t bring enough favors or my games would suck or whatever. But no, it went great,…

  • Okay, so I first started this post like two months ago, and at the time I was watching all of Sex and the City, so I thought it would be funny (or at least punny) to talk about hard work jeans instead of genes. Two months later, that doesn’t seem funny at all. Nor is…

  • Gems

    I’m actually doing 2 Best of 2009 Challenge prompts today… December 7 Blog find of the year. That gem of a blog you can’t believe you didn’t know about until this year. Actually there were several, but 2 is the theme of the day: Kiersten Writes – YA writer Kiersten White recently scored an agent…