In My Life
My Inner Mean Girl Loves to Make Comparisons
This week was much harder for me than last week. The idea of not comparing myself...
Cards Direct Giveaway!
I am so excited about this! You’re familiar with Cards Direct, right? They...
Gold’s Gym Dance Workout
So, part of the Mean Girl Cleanse Exercise this week talked about Being Impeccable...
Giving Up Gossip
Not familiar with the Inner Mean Girl Reform School? Check out this post! Week...
More Shenanigans...Food and Cooking
Puttanesca
One of my favorite sauces; a puttanesca is so easy and delicious. And I just love...
Peach Pineapple Pepper Salsa
A very lovely friend of mine came over on Friday and she brought me all kinds of...
Cooking Out of the Pantry Part IV
So today these are the things I got used from the pantry. Notice, there is prepared...
Cooking Out of the Pantry Part III
Hello Day Three… For day three I thought I would invent something that has...
More Food...Geek Girl
3 Tips on Blogging from the iPad
So I was recommending the iPad over a net book and someone made a comment about being worried about typing a 2000 word post on it when she’s on the road. She made a valid point, so I thought I’d try to write a post completely on the iPad; to see if it was really a viable option. Hint: I’m doing it right now, isn’t it exciting... [Read more...]
Gold’s Gym Dance Workout
So, part of the Mean Girl Cleanse Exercise this week talked about Being Impeccable With Your Word which really resonated for me because I have not been impeccable with my word to myself. One of the things I committed to at the beginning of the summer was moving my body more and while I certainly did improve in that area, I didn’t reach my goals... [Read more...]
SimpleMind Xpress
I’ve been talking a bit about my experience with the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge and I thought I’d share a little bit more about how I’m implementing some of the ideas. On day 11 we worked on coming up with 10 post ideas; basically taking previous posts and expanding upon them in future, planned posts. This is commonly referred... [Read more...]
Broken Link Checker
Recently I participated in the SITS version of Probloggers 31 Days to a Better Blog which was one of the best things I’ve ever done for my blog. One of the most eye opening exercises was Day 27 which was “Go on a Dead Link Hunt“, which I had never done because the idea of going through posts dating all the way back to 2002 was more... [Read more...]
More Geeky Stuff...Homeschool
Haley’s Gig
Can you stand another post where I go on and on and on about how lucky we are to live the life that we choose? No? I don’t blame you. But if you can and you’d like a real treat, stick around. A couple of weeks ago, I found out about a contest that was going to be happening close to where we live. It’s the Acoustic Rising Star competition... [Read more...]
How About Radical Tolerance
Ok, so if you’re a homeschooler (and maybe if you’re not) you know about the GMA piece and George Stephanopulous’s blatant bias at the beginning of the segment. In the time since that piece aired I have seen so many articles and posts and tweets about how bad everyone “else” is and how crazy “those other people”... [Read more...]
“Across the Universe” Science Project
Gather your materials. You’ll need some twine, a tape measure, planet cutouts, scissors, calculator, and a long hallway, driveway or yard. You also need to familiarize yourself and your student(s) with the term Astronomical Unit. Basically it’s a unit of measure equal to 92,955,807 miles, or the distance from the Earth to the Sun. From... [Read more...]
Netflix and Homeschooling
A couple of months ago, some friends of ours were talking about a terrific documentary they had seen. We were fascinated by what they were talking about and this was probably the third conversation we’d had with them regarding different documentaries. I asked the mom where she had seen these, was there a new documentary channel or a website? ... [Read more...]
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