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A Home
Whenever I sit down to type up an ad I always have two versions of it in my head. The correct version that is on the sheet in front of me, and the edited version in my head. If I ever slipped up and typed in the other version, I hope it would sound like this: Beautiful 4 bed, 2 bath house in desirable neighborhood. Open floor plan, kitchen flows into the dining room, the dining room flows into the living room. Big airy windows in the bedrooms, with deep window sills for plants or lazy cats. The roof has been repaired in the last decade so it stands a fairly good…
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Book Review- The Tethered World
Ah this book made me smile. The story telling is seeped in my favorite things. Narnia references throughout, nuanced characters, an exciting new world to explore, The Tethered World took me a while to get through because I was enjoying myself and didn’t want to rush. Sadie Larcen is one of five siblings, the oldest in a homeschooling family. Her family is the best representation I have ever seen in fiction of a homeschooling family. They take care of each other, they squabble, and the older ones find out they have to rescue their parents from Big Foot. “What if Myths are Real” is only my favorite writing topics ever. I appreciated…
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A Picture Summary
The last few months of last year I was pretty much in survival mode. Here are the highlights of that time: Near the end of September, my grammy went to to be with the Lord. She was 90 years old, and I will forever be grateful that her decline, while it was a hell week, was only a week. This picture was taken just a couple weeks prior. I don’t think I’ll ever come to a stage where I don’t miss her. For my 30th birthday weekend the Courtneys came out, and we conquered corn mazes and it was a great time with friends. …And my big ‘finale’ to 30 before…
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A bit late, but hello 2016
Hello 2016, You’re now 11 days old, somehow. So far you’ve started with a bang and (hopefully) the last bit of the Snowpocalypse . 2015 saw my family saying good bye to three family members as they left this life. 2016 you are not starting off on a good foot by us also saying good bye to another uncle. You’re the first year I won’t have my grammy around. I know some day that will become real, but it still has not. It barely had become real that grandpa was gone. Irrevocable change has happened, and there will be more to come. I am just hoping it will be of…
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2015 Reading List
Two Renegade Realms by Donita K Paul The Selection by Kiera Cass The Elite by Kiera Cass The One by Kiera Cass Seven Kinds of Hell by Dana Cameron Mind Monsters by Kevin Gerald Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey Through the Door by Jodi McIsaac Red by Kate Serine Grimm Consequences by Kate Serine Ruby Slippers by Jonalyn Grace Fincher Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Dangerous Books for Girls by Maya Rodale Paper Towns by John Green In the Company of Others by Julie E Czerneda The Taking by Dean Koontz Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan Ravenswolde by Charity Bishop Sir Addam the Insomniac by Naomi Partridge Looking for Alaska by John Green The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst The Merlin Conspiracy by Dianna Wynne Jones The Crown of Ptolemy by Rick Riordan Magnus Chase The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cramer A Lady of Resources by Shelly Adina Lucent Sylph by RJ Conte The 12th Girl in Heaven by RJ Conte The Hotline Girl by RJ Conte Farseer by Griffin Asher As years go, 2015 I did fairly well in having a few nonfiction books peppered in. I also started The Hope Quotient, but did not finish it. 2015 was another good one for books, as there are very few on this list which I found forgettable. Most in fact were very good.
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Words of Wisdom
Words of wisdom from your local office printer.
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30 before 30 – #30 Turduchen
This one’s Amber’s fault. Trying a turduchen was on my original version of the 30 before 30 list. Amber makes her own, but I know my cooking skills…that wasn’t going to happen. I bumped this off the list because I could not find a local place that one sell one. Last week I was out with mom and looking for garlic bread and stumbled across it! I was more than a little excited. Mom and I ended up throwing an impromptu dinner party around having the turduchen…and this thing has 12 servings, we needed more people. Fancy dinner= time to use the blue willow dishes. Unless it’s holiday specific, because then my mother has…
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30 before 30 – #29 Fantastic Mr. Fox
I remember hearing about Fantastic Mr. Fox, I even remember hearing that it was something worth checking out? But I couldn’t think of anyone who had actually seen it and I didn’t know what it was. Until I sat down to watch. I did not know George Clooney was in this movie until I was watching it. Speaking of George Clooney, how is it that even as a fox, a puppet fox at that, it is still so clear that that is George Clooney? If you like unique story telling, make a point to see this one. It was fascinating and enjoyable and I wish I hadn’t waited so long to see…
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30 before 30 – #28 Spotify
I buy cds. And have them come in the mail. And then I rip them onto my computer and add them to one of my 4 playlists. This is an area that I find something I like and stick to it…which is why I’ve never explored a music streaming service. And this is what sold me on Spotify: it pulled over my iTunes playlists no drama. So you mean I don’t have to create new playlists and I only have to use iTunes when I’m updating my itouch? Count me in.
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30 before 30- #27 The Nightmare Before Christmas
I cannot believe I did not think to put The Nightmare Before Christmas on my first version of the 30 before 30 list! As I near the end of the project I have a growing list titled ‘new things’ to try after I’ve finished the official 30 before 30. And to think, I was having trouble thinking of 30 things when I started. I’ve been on The Nightmare Before Christmas version of the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland, and that was where most of what I knew about the story came from. The music was my favorite part, and I’m always in awe at stop motion, the sheer time and work that has to go…