• gym membership free online bodyweight fitness workouts
• yoga class free online restorative yoga session
• streaming music services Freegal music through the Broward County Library's digital card
• Audible OverDrive through the Broward County Library's digital card
• Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro Hitfilm Express

Aside from the soy milk maker, I also have access to a food processor at work which has been useful for shredding potatoes for latkes and, yesterday, for grinding almonds into almond meal for marzipan.

Except, it broke on a pretty obvious fault line. Something which could have been engineered to reinforce, but wasn't.


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Hot on the heels of me posting about what I do with an awkward amount of layover, I was asked to detail my airport bathroom facial. So, here goes!

NOTE This post may contain affiliate links because I'm just copying and pasting from my browser all willy nilly. It shouldn't affect your price.

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One of the fine folks over at Her Packing List's Facebook group asked us what we do with an awkward amount of layover. The idea of an "awkward amount of time" is one that I think is an elephant in the room; we've all experienced it and yet no one talks about it. Well, I'm talking about it! I'm stuck in an airport and don't have enough time to leave ( Read more... )

The following is reposted from a Life Pro Tips request on Reddit ( Read more... )

Many of you poor unlucky souls who have been reading my entries for a while will recall that I did a post on frugal sources of birthday cards and the benefits of having a stash on handIf you read all of my prose, you'll recall that I gave my opinion as not being someone who valued greeting cards and didn't understand why someone would ( Read more... )

I'm going to take a quick break from my regularly scheduled content {summer stuff of travel tips and book reviews} to make a quick detour. All the signs were there that this detour needs to be achieved. I will explain ( Read more... )

Conference season is upon us and so many of us going to conferences are connected with educational facilities, be they universities or school districts. The sad truth about the state of the economy is that if we are lucky, our conference expense budget is frozen at the level it was five years ago, but if we are unlucky, it has actually declined ( Read more... )

A recent blog post on evolution, intelligent design, and creationism, written by a woman whose blog I follow for her environmental tips, recently got me fired up enough to write a comment that FAR exceeded the character limit of Google's Blogger commenting system. As a result, I am having to post that comment here and link to it. I hope that before ( Read more... )