I am a super lucky gal. I have great friends who are coming in from out of town to spend my birthday weekend day with me!  People are coming in from Austin and Houston and the local areas. We’re going to go to a local winery here in San Marcos and drink cheap wine, then…

I have to wonder if the author of this article and my dad were friends… As I stumble through the daily parenting of my own 3 children I often think about the stuff my Dad taught me. Most of it was great and, well, some of it was questionable. Anyway, I thought it might be…

Carissa sent this to me today and totally had me rolling… The MAN CODE This is a collection of rules that every man should live by. It originated in an article written by Maxim, but with some help from the valet boys (Vaida & Dodds) and now the guys at Mifflin, they have become law….

I love giving blood. I love that it gives me a reason to be/stay healthy in between donations.  I love that if I’m a regular donor with South Central Texas Blood Center, if my family needs blood then they’ll get priority.  I giggle like Peggy Hill trying to beat Min to the “Gallon Donor” mug…

4.5 million Americans will a need blood transfusion each year. 43,000 pints: amount of donated blood used each day in the U.S. and Canada. Someone needs blood every two seconds. Only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood – less than 10 percent do annually.** About 1 in 7 people entering a…

Abbey: *Sneeze* Mary: “Bless you!” Abbey: “Thanks!” Mary: “You’re not supposed to say thank you, you hate baby Jesus.” Abbey: “It’s true…” Mary: “It’s going to be really messed up if 2011 rolls around and I don’t get into heaven, but you do, because you went to Catholic school.” Abbey: “You can’t eat those muffins….

Another fear I’ve conquered recently.  For years and years I’ve feared the tiny paintbrush that seems to spell a similar doom to BP Oil Spills in the gulf.  Only those skilled with the tactful hands of a bomb technician would be the sole users of liquid eyeliner – like some crazy secret, thinned out and…

I want to write, but I’m lacking the words. Today I felt like tap dancing, doing cartwheels, doing a happy dance all over the office. It feels so good to be back at work after a two-week break for the holidays. It feels even better to crack mistakes I couldn’t figure out in November before…

1. I got my first ever Deep Tissue Massage when things were getting really stressful.  I felt like throwing up afterward.  Intense. 2.  I took the day off for my birthday.  Best idea ever.  Slept late, daytime tv, champagne, and a massage. 3. New job, nuff said. 4. Donated blood again. 5. Took the GRE…

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Managing The Seemingly Inevitable Holiday Season Stress Holiday Stress Relief is On The Way! – By Elizabeth Scott, M.S., About.com Guide Updated December 10, 2010 What Causes Holiday Stress? Doing Too Much All things in moderation, as the saying goes. The problem with the holiday season is that we often experience too much of a…

But it’s done. I am now fully-functioning in San Marcos. Leeta and I are renting a house in a (well, if there was a suburb in San Marcos, this would be it) residential neighborhood that almost feels like we’re in the country. The house is great, and the only thing crazier than the obnoxious paint…

Can’t lie. I caught myself slightly headbanging to this.

Anyone else remember how finals make you feel? Remember studying for a long period of time over stuff you think you already know, to learn just a little bit more so that your last day of finals (always the last day OF finals) isn’t a complete anxiety meltdown? Luckily, I’m pretty secure in my grade,…

Description from ThinkGeek: Butterfly in a jar – you can’t fly so far.    When we were kids, we like putting butterflies in jars so we could keep them forever and ever. But sometimes they always died. It was sad – extra sad because butterflies (in our opinion) are like rainbows and unicorns: unadulterated creations…

Whoa, hold on, 2011 is almost here?  You’re kidding, right? I say this, having gotten this summer mixed up with summer 2009 in conversation recently.  Things are just so different than they were a year ago.  A year ago I was really feeling the holiday pressure, absolutely stressed out by the holidays. I threw a…

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Turkey Farm Humor: “ (YouTube link)Many people compared this reaction to a television laugh track. My children, who obviously haven’t watched enough BBC TV, asked why anyone would eat Brussells sprouts and Christmas crackers for a holiday meal. -via Boing Boing