My dad is flying in to town today to visit. Well, really, he’s here on business, but hopefully his money-making won’t get in the way of us spending lots of time with him. We’re going downtown tonight to have dinner with him and I can’t wait. Every morning this week I’ve woken up and my first thought has been “I’m…
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Messing With Texas
It’s been a year since Bart moved to Texas. We really wanted to move somewhere, and Austin seemed like a great place to start real life on our own. It seems a bit funny in retrospect that Austin seemed so great to us, seeing as neither of had ever been to Texas at all, let alone Austin. Bart moved here…
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Saturday is a Special Day
Yesterday was a really fantastic day. I like Saturdays where we don’t really have any plans, but we do fun and productive things and yesterday was exactly that. I got up around nine and went to the gym to do my third workout of the week. I’m really pleased with my progress as far as running goes. This one was…
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Blog Reading
I love blogs. I love reading new posts, reading about the writers’ families, marriages, kids, jobs, hobbies, favorite books and movies, and funny life stories. Even though I haven’t met the people who write the blogs I read, I feel as if they are my friends. I know about their lives. I care what happens to them. I first started…
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
I love books like Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America for some reason. I like reading about the “behind the scenes” in American life. I read Fast Food Nation the summer after my freshman year in college and loved it. I like knowing all about big industries in our country and how they function. This title seemed…
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