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Our Marriage As a Venn Diagram: What Overlaps… and What Doesn’t!

Thankfully, on all the big things, John and I see eye to eye. But there are plenty of small things where we absolutely do not agree.

TEN AREAS WE AGREE TO DISAGREE

The best chocolate mint…

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  • Habits, Marriage, Personality Insights
  • Nov, 24, 2025
  • 52 Comments

Lather, Rinse, Repeat: Shower Habits

A random question for the interwebs.

When do you shower?

John recently came across a BBC article about the best time of day to shower. (According to experts, the “healthier” time appears to be the morning.)…

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  • Habits, Personality Insights, Random
  • Nov, 17, 2025
  • 65 Comments

Cool Bloggers Walking Club: Week 1 Recap

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to fellow Canadians and anyone else celebrating today. Before I head to the airport to drop off SHU and Kae (*sob* — their visit was waaaaaaay too short), it’s time to…

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  • Blogging, Cool Bloggers Walking Club, Exercise, Friendship, Habits
  • Oct, 13, 2025
  • 39 Comments

Oops + So, Another Corn Question

So…there were NOT supposed to be two posts yesterday. My final recap of Birchie’s trip to Nova Scotia was scheduled for today. Well, I *thought* it was scheduled for today. Clearly I got my…

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  • Food, Habits, Personality Insights, Random
  • Sep, 30, 2025
  • 36 Comments

How Do You Eat Your Corn? Curious Minds Want to Know!

A few weeks ago, John and I sat down to a lunch of farm-fresh corn. It was the sweetest, crispest corn I’ve ever tasted.

Somewhere between my (literal) sighs of delight, John looked at me…

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  • Food, Habits, Random
  • Sep, 29, 2025
  • 30 Comments

Phone Numbers…or, Yet Another Thing My Brain Has Outsourced to My Phone

When I was a kid, my parents had an old-fashioned rotary phone in their bedroom (I genuinely miss that thing!), and a looooong corded phone in the kitchen. It hung on the wall but…

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  • Habits, Organization, Personality Insights, Random
  • Sep, 25, 2025
  • 44 Comments

The Great Bed-Making Debate

Everyone has a stance on bed-making. Whether you’re the “crisp corners by 7:00 am” type or the “it’s just going to get messy again” type, your answer says something about you as a person….

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  • Habits, Home, Minimalism, Personality Insights
  • Aug, 31, 2025
  • 60 Comments
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