Month: August 2007

10 Tips to Make your First Year of Marriage Easier

10 Tips to Make your First Year of Marriage Easier

While I am not married, I can certainly agree that a wedding lasts for 1 day and marriage lasts for a lifetime. So many people get caught up in the wedding planning they forget. Here’s a great quote on the first year of marriage and a link to some tips on making your first year […]

Read More
Important Numbers to program into your Cell Phone TODAY! Numbers like poison control and others you may not have thought of.

Important Numbers for your Cell Phone

In the event of an emergency aside from 911, do you have important emergency contact numbers where you can easily get to them? Numbers like Poison Control, your local hospital, a locksmith are generally not things you have on hand until you need them.

Read More
What do you know in your 30s that you didn’t know in your 20s?

What do you know in your 30s that you didn’t know in your 20s?

It’s Friday night and for the first time in months I had a whole evening to myself. I chose to spend it catching up on Oprah that had been recorded over the past few weeks. The episode I just finished watching was about women in their thirties – Thirty Something in America. At first I […]

Read More
Money CAN buy happiness

Money CAN Buy you Happiness

According to Gretchen of The Happiness Project there are 8 reasons that money CAN buy happiness. If you have never checked out The Happiness Project I highly recommend it. She provides daily tips, theories and ideas about the art of being happy. To give you a place to start, here are some of the top […]

Read More
Build your own crazy face at Monoface

Monday Madness

This is what my day was like … Make your own crazy/silly/scary/odd face at monoface. It will give you something to laugh about on your drive home.

Read More
Budgeting tip: Freeze your spending addiction... literally

Freeze your spending addiction

Do you often find yourself impulse shopping? I have come across several solutions to keep you from making a purchase too quickly most of which say take time to think about your purchase. Today I ran across a truly unique idea. {photo cred: paalia on flickr} The Discount Diva says to literally freeze your credit […]

Read More
The W List: 100+ Outstanding Women Bloggers (sorted by category)

The W List: Outstanding Women Bloggers

I found a great post today through sk*rt of The Magical List of Outstanding Women Bloggers. I am always excited to find new blogs to feed my addiction (and my reader), especially women bloggers.

There are over 150 women bloggers listed. One issue I had with this thorough list – it’s not categorized and there is no way to know what each blog is without visiting each one individually. I guess that’s two issues. So …

Here is the continuance of the outstanding women bloggers list, with blog descriptions. I look forward to making my way through these new blogs.

Read More
Do you know the difference between yeah, yay, yah, ya and yea?

Yeah, yay, yah & ya

I certainly would not consider myself the spelling expert but I often see “yeah” and “yay” misused frequently so I thought I’d have a little education session: Yeah – pronounced ye-uh as in yes “Hey Jen, are you going to with us to the mall?”- girl a; “Yeah, I’ll go”- girl b Yay – rhymes […]

Read More
amazing spiral photography

Tuesdays can be fun too

Yay, it’s 5 o’clock! I’ve had some pretty funny discoveries today on my down times. I wonder why my professors in college never told me that design is really a degree of “hurry up and wait”? Anyways, I did some browsing throughout the day while I was waiting on hold, or waiting for a returned […]

Read More
Is there anything better than spontaneous ice cream at work?

Ice Cream, Brownies and Client Approvals could this day get any better

I have decided that this day is beginning to turn around. This morning I thought this day was going to turn out pretty blah but I came back from lunch and the whole world has changed. *did I mention I exaggerate a bit!* The first email in my inbox read something like this … “Hello […]

Read More