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Just Give Me the Smiley Face: A Pet Peeve

A quick reminder that today is Day #1 for the Cool Bloggers Walking Club: October Edition (you do not need to be a blogger to participate). There’s even a printable if you’re inclined to…

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  • Personality Insights, Pet Peeves, Random
  • Oct, 01, 2024
  • 44 Comments

Are You Clean, Neat, Both, or Neither?

I’m not obsessive about neatness or cleanliness, but I definitely would tend toward neatness. I like everything to have a place and everything to be IN that place. But when it comes to cleaning,…

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  • Habits, Home, Minimalism, Organization, Personality Insights, Random
  • Sep, 23, 2024
  • 42 Comments

Where Do You Keep That? (Part One)

I am shamelessly using Engie’s post prompt that she got from Stephany who got it from a recent episode of the Girl Next Door podcast when the hosts discussed where they keep various standard…

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  • Habits, Home, Life, Organization, Personality Insights, Random
  • Sep, 16, 2024
  • 45 Comments

Other (Random) Things + Summer Reflections

There were events in August that did not involve a trip to Portugal and, for posterity, I want to bullet-point them on the blog.

Nate Bargatze. Our favourite comedian! Back in January – when we…

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  • Life, Random, Summer Celebrations
  • Sep, 02, 2024
  • 31 Comments

Memory Triggers

The littlest things can be memory triggers.

A few months ago John and I were walking on a local trail and happened upon a building renovation. The contractors were sawing through raw lumber and the…

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  • Home, Life, Personality Insights, Random
  • Jul, 22, 2024
  • 32 Comments

(Baby You Can) Drive My Car*

*I cycled through various song titles to use for this post and most of them seem to come laden with issues. I was going to use Shania Twain’s In My Car (I’ll Be the…

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  • Habits, Personality Insights, Random
  • Jun, 25, 2024
  • 35 Comments

And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon

One of my blogging superpowers is giving readers emotional whiplash. Share a vulnerable mental health post one day, and show up the next with some ridiculously trivial questions.

Here we go.

Recently, while emptying the…

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  • Habits, Random
  • Jun, 22, 2024
  • 43 Comments
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