Wife Like Me

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I'm expecting to have a little downtime during our Kauai trip this month, thanks to my baby-doting family who have graciously volunteered to take shifts with the kids while I play.  I hardly know what I'll do with myself, but I have [...]

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We watched a movie called Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan, which last name I never pronounce correctly because it's fun to say it wrong) this weekend and I rather liked it.  I was surprised, because I expected to hate it from the trailers I'd seen–it looked like a horror film, but it was [...]

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I helped one of my sisters the other day by editing one of her papers for school in which the word "nonsensical" was used quite frequently.  And I've recently watched the Keira Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice a couple of times and she uses the word "nonsensical" in reference to her Elizabeth Bennet character.  Because I like the word, [...]

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We had FHE today on keeping journals.  We have FHE on Monday mornings now that Colin is working in the evenings, so it's a little different.  It was an impromptu lesson given by Colin, where he talked about how it's a good idea to write helpful and interesting things in your journal for your posterity [...]

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BYU's David M. Kennedy Center (where my International Studies major was housed) puts out a neat magazine called Bridges.  The current issue is focused on culture, with articles on everthing from culture shock to the cultural side of human traficking.  The article I was most interested in is by Jan R. Van Orman, BYU's assistant [...]

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The Lake House is a movie we saw this week with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.  It's another Jane Austen adaptation, this time on the book Persuasion.  It's about two people who correspond with each other, but who are living two years apart (i.e. she is writing him from two years in the future).  I [...]

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I made a new category for "Holidays" today and did a quick Google search to find a list of holidays out there.  Here is what I found that I liked:
http://www.earthcalendar.net//index.php  A calendar of all holidays around the globe.  Searchable by date, country, religion, etc.  Includes things like Receptionist Day and Towel Day.
http://www.lightdev.com/holcal/ current month's holidays
http://shagtown.com/days/usa.htmla good [...]

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Happy May Day everyone!  I hope you've all had a wonderful day.  The weather here was mostly warm and sunny, turning to overcast in the evening and ready to rain.  I love rain and I love sunny, so it was perfect. 
For some reason I've always been interested in May Day traditions, but I've never [...]

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Here's a list of things I'd really like to have in my next house.  When we bought this house, we really had very little idea of what we wanted and now I'm much better acquainted with taking care of my own home and what I like and some things I don't like.  This isn't really [...]

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