Well, here we are–mere hours away from 2013. So, to honor the passing year, I decided to do a little accountability check to see how well I did with this year’s resolutions. If you want to check the original post, you can find it here. Or you cou can read how I was doing near …
Book #23: Looking for Alaska
Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green # of Pages: 256 Genre: Young Adult Realistic Fiction I actually finished this book awhile ago, but between all the Christmas parties and traveling, I haven’t had much time for posting. I bought this book when our local Borders was going out of business, and if …
Announcement: The 50 Weeks to Organized Project
Happy New Year, everyone! Well, almost. With 2013 just hours away, my biggest New Year’s resolution ever is looming over my head: The goal to become organized. Last year, my goal was to run my first marathon. Even though that was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done up to this point, I’m pretty sure …
New Christmas Tradition – Friend Party
You know that group of friends that you’ve had forever: the ones you can go months–even years– without seeing, and still have lots to talk about? That group that you know you’ll be friends with forever, even when life throws you curve balls and takes you separate ways? Well, my friend group like that is …
Accidental Christmas Traditions
I don’t know how other newlyweds handle their first couple of Christmases, but I’ll tell you how we did: we meticulously planned out every tiny little detail of how we would spend our Christmases together so that we could start many fabulous traditions that we would enjoy for years and years to come. NOT. What …
Twas The Day After Christmas
Twas the day after Christmas and all through the house,Not a Torrie was stirring, not even her spouse.The presents, unwrapped, were strewn all around,The laundry and garbage were all in a mound.And Torrie, all wiped from a long Christmas day,Rejoiced in her innards as she heard an elf say,“I’ve come here to grant you some wishes–say three–Like ‘mopping the …
Christmas Card
Between all the parties we’ll be attending, the hot cocoa we’ll be sipping, and the naps we’ll [hopefully] be taking, there won’t be too much time for the blog until after Christmas. But, to send you off on a happy holiday note, here is the Christmas card we would have sent, had I actually taken the time to print it out. …
Book #22: Life of Pi
Title: Life of PiAuthor: Yann Martel# of Pages: 336Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Survival Okay, so the fact that this book has recently been made into a movie may have been a large part of the reason why I decided that now was the perfect time to finally read it. I’m telling ya, I think I have a …