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I Need Your Suggestions for Keeping Warm!

Today’s post is going to be (relatively) short because I’m hoping you will do most of the work for me.

My number one problem with winter is being cold. After I read How to Winter…

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  • Random, Personality Insights
  • Sep, 29, 2026
  • 91 Comments

Things I Know by Heart, Things I Don’t (And Things I Really Should) + Guest Post!!

A quick note: You can also find me over at The Frugal Girl today, where I’m talking about how intentional spending habits allowed our family to spend extended time (110 days, to be exact)…

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  • Random, Personality Insights
  • Sep, 23, 2026
  • 57 Comments

I’m Back + What’s “Saving My Life”

Hi! *Waves*

I’m back!

Things feel… a lot better this week! I was in a rough spot when I last posted (all the ongoing things in life, a leaky roof, AND I was smack dab in…

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  • Life, Favourite Things, Random
  • Sep, 14, 2026
  • 48 Comments

Saturday Naps + One Month Ago in Cardiff + A Keeper

There are several dozen things I could be doing right now, but I’m basking in the delight of watching France get thrashed in the first half of the France-England match.

Harumph. It took me…

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  • Random, Euro Adventure, Travel
  • Jul, 18, 2026
  • 29 Comments

Some More Random Tidbits About Finland

In my first post with interesting facts about Finland (see here), a few people were a bit horrified by the fact that Finnish police have access to everyone’s tax records. Well, hold on to…

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  • Travel, Euro Adventure, Helsinki, Random
  • Jun, 07, 2026
  • 11 Comments

Giveaway + Random Monday Thoughts

First thing’s first: we have a winner for the Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance book giveaway.

Huge congratulations to Emily!!!!

I hope you get those 20 minutes of reading time!

RANDOM THOUGHTS

It’s 1:23 pm…

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  • MayBloPoMo, Giveaway!, Random
  • May, 18, 2026
  • 24 Comments

More Things I’ve Done

I find it much easier to think of things I haven’t done, but here are a few more things I have done that might fall outside the typical realm:

Taken a CPR/First Aid course. (Though…

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  • Personality Insights, Never Have I Ever, Random
  • Apr, 28, 2026
  • 33 Comments
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