One of the perks to living near Music City, USA, is the constant barrage of concerts downtown. It’s tough to find a restaurant that doesn’t have live music on a Friday and Saturday night around here. Everyone has open mic night or local artist night or theme music night… heck, even Dippin’ Dots is having […]

I have become a totally selfish “cheater” of a blogger. I realize it’s been quite some time since I’ve popped anything up on my blog. In my own defense, I’ve started posting some things on www.helium.com, since that site might actually make me some money (up to 2 pennies so far, baby!) whereas this…. not […]

Finally, the kitchen renovation is complete!! Over the past month and a half, we’ve been bringing our kitchen to the 21st century. This meant, first of all, restaining our way outdated cabinets. The cabinets were a blah beige that we’ve hated since the day we moved in. Since replacing all of them was a little […]

Cringe with me – Brandon and I attempted another home improvement project this weekend. We have a long list of things that we want to improve around the house, and we’re getting to them all bit by bit. This weekend we finally moved down the list to installing new faucets in our master bathroom. All […]

This marathon was a spiritual event for me. I certainly could not have completed this of my own power, and without God, could not have done what I did. I had been murmuring prayers about this marathon for months leading up to it – for all of our safety on race day, for a safe […]

So, I’ve had a really tough time with turning a quarter of a century old this year. I keep noticing things that I never would have thought twice about before… like wrinkles under my eyes that never used to be there. Or what I used to think was a freckle is now freaking me out […]

So I’ve taken another extended leave of absence from my own blog. Between our long runs on the weekends, lots and lots of late nights at work, and all of my online time going to Christmas shopping, I haven’t hit my blog in a while. The runs are varying week to week – last weekend’s […]

We’ve begun construction on the deck; say a quick prayer. Â As of right now, the railing is officially gone… steps will be going up soon. I’ll have photos up when we’re done (as long as all goes according to plan).

I’ve been MIA from my own blog for quite a while now due to a slew of home improvement projects, increased mileage in the marathon training plan, and a crazy work schedule. We managed to successfully (somewhat) tile the bathroom floors a few weeks ago. Not our best results ever with a home improvement project, […]

There’s something so terribly, terribly wrong about shopping for swimsuits while it’s snowing outside. And yet, that’s what I was doing this afternoon…. freezing my bum off in a horribly-flourescent-lit fitting room while trying to find suitable swimwear for our cruise. Any girl out there knows that swimsuit shopping is generally an excruciating self-loathing process. […]