Book #13: Drop Dead Healthy

Title: Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily PerfectionAuthor: A.J. Jacobs# of Pages: 375Genre: Autobiographical Journalism (I may or may not have just made that up) After all my “serious” reading this year, I decided I needed a break. Actually, that’s a lie. What really happened was that I didn’t know I needed …

Tuesday Tell-All

 *So I was upstairs this morning, trying to show Matt a move from my Pilates class (and trying to prove to him that it was impossible to prevent the small of my back from coming up off the floor), when all of a sudden, my marathon-toenail (which I’ve been obsessively painting over with dark colors so …

International Kissing Day Date

In honor of International Kissing Day (July 6th), Matt and I decided to take a spontaneous date to the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake City and share a smoochie in Vietnam (theoretically). For any of you in the Salt Lake Area who haven’t been to these gardens, they are definitely worth a drive out. …

Naomi Chase Lane

With all the spare time I have on my hands this summer, I’ve started to delve a little bit into family history work. Now, when I was younger, I always thought that family history work was meant for grandmas/empty-nesters who needed some way to spend all of their free time (that is, when they weren’t …

Holidays

July 4th Festivities

Matt and I just got back after a long, fun-and-family-filled Fourth of July week, where we: Joined up with my family at Bountiful’s annual Eaglewood celebration, Had us some homemade strawberry ice cream, Enjoyed the sunset, Watched some fireworks, Went to a parade (and got LOTS of saltwater taffy), Cheered on my brother in the …

Book #12: The Count of Monte Cristo

Title: The Count of Monte CristoAuthor: Alexandre Dumas# of Pages: 1462Genre: Classic Romantic Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi once said, “After an enjoyable event we know that we have changed, that our self has grown: in some respect, we have become more complex as a result of it.” He goes on to say that to enjoy such …