I baked cookies today.
My husband took a bite and says, “Hmmm…these cookies sure have a lot of…texture.”
Interpretation: Too much oatmeal and other healthy ingredients in here. Where are the chocolate chips?
Year: 2008
I’ve been working on my Adventures In Parenting website and learning more about how to increase online traffic.
There is so much material out there for SEO training. The hardest part is to incorporate what everyone tells you to do. A type of coaching system for us noobs would be nice. Especially for the technologically challenged, having a computer person who can do EVERYTHING right next to me would be really nice!
I was thinking today whether I am living a “successful” life and whether our church is a “successful” church.
Success can be easily defined if we were doing well financially, or if our church has thousands in attendance. You look at that and automatically think, “They are a success.”
I dreaded the trip to the Social Security office to get a replacement Social Security card for Audrey.
I couldn’t navigate their phone system to get an appointment (“please press or say 1” ugghh!) so we decided to just go to the office and either get in line or get an appointment.
Two things impressed me:
When we had the daily newspaper delivered, they stack up in the corner unopened (except for the comics) until Friday when we had time to read them.
We cut down to the Sunday paper only and read that for a week (except for the comics and the Fry’s ad we read on that Sunday).
I finally made it to WinCo, and it was fun! The place is huge and there were many good buys.
Best buys:
Oatmeal – 51 cents a pound compared to 69 cents a pound at Costco
Cooked roast beef – $3.99 a pound
Cauliflower – 48 cents each (not per pound)
Brown onions – 10 cents a pound
The sickness bug has been rough on us this year.
Even Mike caught a cold and cough a few weeks ago, and he NEVER gets sick.
We’ve been using up several bottles of cold and cough meds.
I’ve saved money by buying generic and store brand medications. Name brands such as Tylenol, Robitussin, and Triaminic…
After over 30+ years of being a Christian, many aspects of prayer remains a mystery to me.
And here is something new I learned about prayer this week.
I notice I was feeling a lack of motivation in life. I wondered what I am living for. I was losing focus on projects that I was really excited about. I was irritable. I was feeling discontent. Is it PMS? Is it mid-life crisis?
For those who are mystery book fans like me:
Q: How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two, one to screw it almost all the way in and the other to give it a surprising twist at the end.:)Â Â Thanks for that one, Pete.Â
Warning: Spoiler ahead.
This is the weirdest rendition of Sherlock Holmes I’ve read. I thought Holmes having a female partner and then marrying her was off the wall. In this book, Exit Sherlock Holmes by Robert Lee Hall, everything about Holmes’ mysterious background is explained. Where did he acquire his many skills as an actor, violinist, fencer, scientist, and detective? What is his actual relationship with arch enemy Moriarty? How come he never talks about his family, but somehow a brother Mycroft is smarter than him?