Dear Readers, My sweet and clever friend Carina wrote this interesting essay about ditching the traditional shampoo/conditioner method of hair washing on a cool fitness blog she is running. I knew immediately after reading it that it was something I wanted to share… Continue Reading
Can you imagine a world where avocados just grew on trees? Where you could walk out to your yard and pick a lemon for your Aviator cocktail. Or, grab a lime to squeeze over your watermelon. It’s a shame places… Continue Reading
Life is full of compromises. Unless you are super, well-off one of the compromises you make when you live in a big city is that space is at a premium. I am super jealous of Coralie’s ability to decorate her… Continue Reading
Whether you are decorating, Black Friday shopping, or recovering from a food coma, let this holiday mix get you in the spirit for whatever your day brings. We both chose a lot of these songs, so look for… Continue Reading
You know when you don’t feel good you search out the warm and fuzzy? Hot cups of tea, curling up under blankets, even the warm and fuzzy feeling of Nyquil qualifies for this list. When you don’t feel good, you… Continue Reading
Forgive me if you don’t enjoy funny things and this feature doesn’t interest you. You do know that you are on a site titled, “FUN Things To Do While You’re Waiting”, right?! Since it is Friday and we could all… Continue Reading
I always love to hear what other people are listening to, watching, or reading. I love it because it exposes me to new things and tells me a little bit about them and their habits. It is Fall, which means… Continue Reading
I am a super-feminist. Women can do anything and everything they set their minds to– and don’t even try to stop them. We can run countries/businesses, create life, and go to space. Ladies have come so far– although a lot of… Continue Reading
This summer flew by! Coralie and I made several playlists over the summer but never had the time to put pen to “paper” to give them a playlist explanation. Some of these songs are blatant summer songs, but now that… Continue Reading
In todays age of social media, people can vent their opinions everywhere– whether you like it, or not. You can pan the book you read on Goodreads. You can complain about the inferior quality of the headphones you ordered from Amazon.… Continue Reading
Sometimes you just gotta let loose. There are millions of ways to let loose and however you choose to do so, is fine with me. Well, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody or yourself and as long as it’s… Continue Reading
Soap. Water. Elbow grease. These are all the things you need to do dishes, right? Not in my book! As I mentioned on Tuesday, I h-a-t-e hate doing dishes. But, do you know what I hate more? Dishes that are… Continue Reading
I’ve talked before about my complex relationship with doing dishes. It is one of those chores, like doing laundry, that is never ending; even if you clean all of them, there will still be more tomorrow. To lessen my “begrudge-ness,”… Continue Reading
OoooooOOOOOOOOoooooo. Friday the 13th! Whatever that means for you, I hope you aren’t afraid of more fun photos! This installment of photos is broken up into four sections: fun photos taken at the grocery store, ‘my neighborhood is awesome’ fun… Continue Reading
Coralie and I are constantly working on ways to make FTTDWYW harder. better. faster. stronger. From the beginning of FTTDWYW, Coralie and I have wanted certain things for the blog- mainly for the blog to be instinctive, intuitive… for you… Continue Reading
Coralie is super awesome at taking meaningful, well-composed photos… ones that commemorate a moment and are capturers of memories… when going through my photos, especially now with camera phones, I find that 90% of them are joke photos; things that… Continue Reading
Fun Things To Do While You’re Waiting has been going strong for a little almost four and a half months now! Say WHAAA??? That’s a third of a year?! We’ve published 153 (154 including this one) posts and are STILL going strong. As… Continue Reading
Our Chicago apartment was on the 14th floor. All my dreams of freshly-grown herbs were always dashed as wind chimes and window boxes are things that just cannot exist successfully on a 14th- floor Chicago balcony. Now that we are… Continue Reading
With most of my shoes in storage, I’ve relied heavily on a select few pair of shoes this summer. One of which have been my fluorescent-pink Old Navy flip-flops that matched my favorite toenail polish of the summer. I’ve flopped… Continue Reading
I loved Coralie’s great article about Top 10 Thing’s To Know When Dining Out yesterday! Didn’t you? It answered my #1 question of, “if y’all are so full, why are there empty tables?!” I love when people do exposes of an… Continue Reading