Wife Like Me

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Does anyone but me struggle with knowing what the names on cuts of meat mean?  I bought a roast on sale the other day labeled “USDA Choice Chuck Beef English Roast.”  What in the world….?  I learned a while […]

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I like all the seasons, but I usually seem to like the one I’m in best until the very end of the season.  Right now I like Spring.
It rains in the Spring.  I like rain because it smells good.  It makes everything feel clean and new.  It gives variety to my life.  I even like […]

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I think our microwave is dead.  That song from Oklahoma, “Poor Jud is Dead,” keeps playing in my head, which may or may not be an indicator of deadness.  The occasional arc has bothered us on and off for about a year now, but this week it decided not to work for more than a […]

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This morning marked 10 days in a row of exercising 30 minutes or more every day.  As I hopped into the shower afterward, I thought to myself that taking a shower is so much nicer when I have to do it for a reason other than having been smeared with something by one my kids.  […]

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Here’s a new, fun, productive thing to participate in: The Ponytail Challenge. I saw a posting about it on someone else’s blog and was a little skeptical at first. The blog offers humor and small self-improvement oriented challenges to those women who may be in the category of having let themselves go. […]

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I love incentive charts! I’ve got a huge one like this on my wall tracking my progress on my goals that I got at the store for less than $2.

Yes, I have a couple of mini-charts for the kids (it’s helping Degen with his potty-training), but I primarily use incentive charts for me! […]

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My favorite site of the day is nutritiondata.com. As you know, I’m counting carbohydrates right now with my current health goals, and sometimes that gets complicated. For example, I’m planning to make myself a burrito for lunch. There are a bunch of ingredients in a burrito, and some of them don’t have […]

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Thhis is Colin.  I’m writing because it’s Sunday morning my eyes are a bit fuzzy and I’m realizing looking at the computer how easy it is to accomplish a stereogram effect with the icons on the screen.  I’m actually typing wihtout looking at the screen and at a weird angle so forgive the unpolished tone…  […]

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http://gmapsmania.googlepages.com/100thingstodowithgooglemapsmashups is a link to a cool list of bunch of things you can do with maps.  I love maps!

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I got an email from my cousin recommending this blog called Letters to a Parent and I really like it!  The link over there goes to the specific letter she recommended, but I think a lot of them are certainly worth reading.  The blog has letters and transcribed talks given by parents to parents about “the […]

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