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Find the Fun?

Find the Fun?

It’s Tuesday morning and I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Our weekends have been JAM-PACKED since the end of August, and I’m just now starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel! We only have one commitment this weekend and I’m so glad for that. Since we went away on a whirlwind vacation...
Sometimes, there are no words

Sometimes, there are no words

The other day Mike and I stepped out of the house to take Gabriel for a little walk around the block. When we returned, this was on our answering machine… The first time we heard it, we were speechless… We listened to it about 10 times before deleting it. And as far as I can...

Card Bashing

Once upon a time, in my teenage years, I would spend ages scanning the Hallmark store for the “perfect” card that conveyed just the right sentiment. Especially when it came to my friends. The ideal card was one that had some long and drawn out joke on the front and a side-splitting punch line on...

Because I'm So Original

I saw Kris’s recent post and thought I would copy her because, like my work-in-progress portfolio, I find myself dry of good/original ideas right now. :) According to Typealyzer, my blogging persona is: ESFP – The Performers The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their...

Me Dot Com

Occasionally, I check up on vanessa.com and see what atrocious site graces the domain name. The roster of past sites is pretty much all over the board: it’s been a porn site, an obscure musician’s webpage, on sale for some ungodly amount, and now it’s a pathetic portal of nothingness. Grr. So I’m considering registering...

Unfortunately…

I know that this has been done before and it’s nothing new. I just thougt I got some funny results. The rules? Go to Google and type in “unfortunately (insert your name here)” and see what comes up. These were my favorites: Unfortunately, Vanessa’s can’t satisfy late night urges, they close at 10PM. Unfortunately Vanessa...

Copy Cat

I saw that Kris posted her 25 things on her blog, and I felt compelled to do the same… Sorry for being unoriginal. I am a Jersey Girl: born and raised. Sometimes I miss living there for the shopping, no tax on clothes, and of course the fact that my parents still live there… but...

The frames: I found them

I did a little more sleuthing and found a picture of the exact frames I’m getting, so I’m pretty psyched! Now that I have the knowledge that my close-range vision is screwed up, I’m definitely taking notice of the problem more. This morning I had trouble seeing my eyes well enough to put on makeup....

Four Eyes

Last Saturday my right eye started twitching like crazy and it didn’t really subside until Thursday when I started getting headaches. On Thursday my work had a health fair and they were giving free vision screenings. The twitching could have been caused by eye strain or simply the sinus cold I felt was coming on....

Ucoordinated

Mike purchased Rockband 2 sometime before the New Year, and we formed a band called Linoleum Knife (Aqua Teen Hunger Force reference). Usually, I sing and Mike plays drums. But sometimes Mike wants to sing, so I have to play drums, because I’m terrible on the guitar. Then we got to a point in the...

Streamlining

If you’re anything like me, you’ve collected, gathered and stashed a lot of stuff in your life. I’ve mentioned it before on this site, but since I started trying to purge some of the miscellaneous junk from my office in preparation for moving to a smaller room, I’m more painfully obvious of the problem. The...

Vend-a-Rage

The gentleman who loads the work vending machine with m&m’s needs a serious lesson on the proper way to load the vending coil. Three times I have purchased chocolatey m&m morsels, and three times I have watched in horror as the bag fails to drop. Once I had to buy another bag just to get...