December 2010
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2010 in Review: Resolution Report, Recap, Pics
So, above you’ll find a slideshow of the key pictures from this year, at least from what I found in my Flickr calendar. :) If you can’t see the slideshow, click here for the album on Flickr. Resolution results for 2010: Get DPOA paperwork and a Living Will in place (created documents but didn’t get them notarized/signed: FAIL) Continue to strive to be a healthy...
20 Questions to Review 2010
Here are 20 questions to help you review the year.
1. Who do you know better than you did at the beginning of the year?
This one is SO easy. I developed a really special friendship with someone who had previously just been an online friend that I wished lived nearby. After her visit to my new house in January for the housewarming, Laura and I started recording voice memos on our phones to each...
Vid: December 30th
Today is my Friday! I wore lots of green.
Year Stats in Goodreads
Really interesting: did you know that you can view your stats in Goodreads? I’ve read a lot more this year than last year, and even more than the year before. Interesting. I think reading the Outlander series with Laura makes up a huge chunk of the page increase. Love that Goodreads provides stats like these!
Throwback: A MeToday!
I’m feeling nostalgic for video blogging, so I’m going to start doing it again. :)
Using my iPad in traffic (in a good way!)
Last night, my husband was driving us home from a delicious holiday dinner in the Akron area, when Jim happened to notice a car in the lane next to us with its front hood flapping up and down slightly. He mentioned to me that the person’s hood wasn’t closed, and I immediately remembered a horrible experience I had in high school, when the hood of the Celica I was driving wasn’t...
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Autumn Tree Root
(Photo taken in back yard, September 2010) “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” - E.B. White
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Milestone: Size Downgrade!
Today I decided to do another side-by-side comparison of the person I am this month physically and the person I was in January, two weeks before starting my weight loss journey. Observe:
The person on the left was wearing plus size 16 Lane Bryant pants, of which she had three identical pairs, because they were the only pants she was willing to leave the house in due to being at an all-time high...
I am crossposting recent things to Tumblr as I prepare to move there permanently. I’m ready. It’s time. I find myself not posting to my blog because it’s all more Tumblr-esque stuff. Let’s move!
Things Little Brothers Say
Yesterday, Max (7) and Ben (6) explained the following things to me: Ben: “I want to learn to drive a car so that I can drive to the store and get [insert name of favorite candy here] any time I want.” Max: “I don’t want a girlfriend, because when I drive a car, she will just sit in the seat next to me and bother me all the time.” Also, when we were leaving Winking...
Vampire critics do not combat beer car...
Brandice: “I can’t stand that beer commercial with the car that’s a grill and a keg and pops popcorn! Blatantly impossible, because how did they get that stupid car to the stadium?”
Jim: “Steered it while pushing, or a tow truck.”
Brandice: “No way. There’s no tow truck shown and the steering column is replaced by the grill. It’s completely unrealistic!”
Jim: “Wait… you’re complaining about implausible commercials, and you watch shows about vampires?”
Brandice: “That’s TOTALLY plausible.”