My first interaction with Kina was through blogging. She would often comment and then would start sending me emails with unsolicited advice on wedding planning, life, places to eat. Then we met in real life and became fast friends. Before she and her husband moved to Baker City to follow their dream to open a restaurant, we had [...] [...more]
After work last night, I collapsed on the couch watching Thomas the Train (for the millionth time) with my son. I knew I had to get a 5 miles walk in as part of my training for a 10k program. My mind was saying “go for it.” My body “forget about it.” When my husband got home [...] [...more]
It has now been 11 days since I had my LASIK surgery and I’m happy to report that I A) survived and B) I have 20/15 vision. WOO HOO. I was a whole lotta nervous for nothing. I took two .5 mg of Valium and they sat me down under this machine (obviously the laser) [...] [...more]
… you come down with a stomach virus. Lil B awoke me at 3 a.m. crying with a weird cough. As I rolled out of bed and walked into him room there was this stench of grossness. Poor little guy couldn’t keep anything down. After a few hours, he just sorta snapped out of it and [...] [...more]
You read that right. After two weeks of thinking about even mentioning it on my blog, I’ve decided to let my friend Ethan’s words speak for me. Though I can not take credit for getting Ethan into Wilco, I can take credit for persuading him into seeing them live this summer when we went to Jacksonville. I [...] [...more]
As I rule, I generally don’t talk about my job but I got to be part of a really cool social media campaign we launched today encouraging Central Oregon to wear red and raise awareness of heart disease in women. I spent all day Friday shooting a video of our employees wearing red and dancing [...] [...more]
Last spring, I participated in IgniteBend. I was scared, excited and thought I was downright nuts for signing up and presenting about my hopes of being a natural mother and completely failing. My goal was to be funny and make people laugh. I worked really really hard on my presentation and over practiced it. My [...] [...more]
Recently, a friend was intrigued by all this talk of a certain band and she asked “can you make me a CD of their songs?” Since this is my blog and I can talk about whatever, whomever I want I thought this would be a great time to try to figure out what songs I might [...] [...more]
Photos courtesy of grtaylor2 I have tried to sit down and write this post a number of times, only to scrap it all and start over. I’m not a music critic and well, I’m intimidated by what I’m reading out there. I’m just a fan. A fan that FLEW over 1300 miles to see one [...] [...more]
It’s a new year. I think I’ve gained 10 lbs in the past week with all the out of control eating. I ate my final linzer cookie until next Christmas season. I’ve had an alcoholic beverage everyday since Christmas and I have not exercised. My husband and I were talking about goals last night for [...] [...more]
