I've never been into any kind of extreme sports (shock, huh?). My brother, the typical boy, loves them. He was pretty good at skateboarding, and he and his friends spent hours cleaning their boards, skating at the local indoor skate park, skating at schools, and shopping for/trading out different accessories. It went past being a phase for him, ( Read more... )

I tend to go back and forth on my opinion of credit cards. I do not think they are inherently evil or anything, but I do not like the idea behind them. It's basically "buy now, pay later", and I generally don't agree with that. Debt is sky-rocketing, teenagers are being taught that they can basically get whatever they want and worry about the ( Read more... )

We went a long time without a vacuum when we moved here. In our old place, we borrowed my mom's vacuum once a month or so (I know, kind of gross, but our place was 90% tile). Even here, it was a real pain because we couldn't afford a vacuum, but my mom lived too far away for it to be realistic to swap up very often. My grandparents gave us one ( Read more... )

In July of 2005, Elizabeth and I took a trip to New Orleans, LA. I had only been there either in passing, or on field trips when I was just a kid. We thought it would be fun, take a day trip down there to do some shopping, maybe stay the night (we decided against that ( Read more... )

I am definitely bookmarking this site for my Christmas shopping ( Read more... )

I am really excited about owning a home one day. Next to owning a home, our real dream is to actually build a custom home of our own. It may not be a castle, but it will be OUR home, that we design. I want everything as perfect as possible, down to the smallest details.
I can't wait to design our bathroom, from the showerhead, to the tile, the ( Read more... )

Teenage depression is extremely common, way more common than I ever really realized. Now there are many factors of course, but it never hurts to have a little help ( Read more... )

Today, I start back on the FlyLady program, back at the "Baby Steps". It worked so so well for me in the past, but I started to slack off a bit. Then when I started feeling sick, found out I was pregnant, etc, it really threw me off track. I really should have stuck with it, it probably would have helped everything stay a lot more manageable ( Read more... )

Those of you who have known me for a little bit probably know that in the past, I struggled very much with an eating disorder. It's been a few years since I've had a bad relapse, but throughout my teenage years, I really struggled. I had anorexia nervosa, or ED-NOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified). It went kind of back and forth between ( Read more... )

We use mapping sites and GPS units like they are going out of style. John has to for work, I have to because I have absolutely no sense of direction ( Read more... )