Spicing Up My Life!
I wish this post were as exciting as the title… but, to me, it is. One of the fun things about moving to a new place is figuring out where everything should go and how to make it the most… Continue Reading
Everything Else
An ULTRA Guest Post- By: Whitney Richman
Y’all… my friend Whitney is amazing. I say that about most of friends, but Whitney actually does something that (to me) is uh-mazing; that’s several steps above amazing. For not only is Whitney a runner, but she is what they… Continue Reading
Fall Y’all!
I have always been partial to the last the last third of the year! The first 8 months of the year certainly have their merit- but, I love the last four months especially! I look forward to the changing of each season.… Continue Reading
Creature Comforts
Now that things are making their way out of boxes and back into our lives, I am in awe of two things. The first is the amount of things that I had completely forgotten about… the things that when they are… Continue Reading
A Natural Home Remedy from Our Fully Furnished Home
The movers came and went on Thursday. They delivered *most of* our stuff. We won’t be able to assess the full spectrum of the event until everything is unpacked which will take a while… because not only did they deliver… Continue Reading
Jean Season is Just Around the Corner!
Let me tell you. I love jeans. I love dressy jeans. I love yard jeans. I love jeans with holes in the knees. I love fat jeans. I love designer jeans. I love trouser jeans. I just love jeans. I… Continue Reading
Make the Best of What You’ve Got-
Here on the Alabama Gulf Coast, we have had a rainy summer season! I mean, it has rained a bunch! Our yard, our poor yard is a lake! Not once but twice we have had house guest be surprised at… Continue Reading
Kitchen Cabinets, Batter Up!
I made it clear, I have got to tackle the clutter in my house. Although Bub and I will never live in a clutter free house, one day we will live in a house that is way less cluttered than… Continue Reading
Funny Foto Friday
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
Don’t Mess with Texas!
As I alluded to in the introduction on the book report I posted last night, Bub and I spent a 4 day weekend in Dallas this past weekend. We went for Success School but added an extra day to our… Continue Reading
Colour My World: Part 3
If you are playing along at home, you’ll know that we’ve been planning on painting our apartment before our furniture gets here. Well, as you read this (hopefully) all of stuff is FINALLY being loaded onto a truck. It should… Continue Reading
Garden Gnome- Five Points or Less
Under no circumstance am I an advanced gardener! It is only in the last six or seven years that I have even discovered that I like plants. For a majority of my life it was all I could do to… Continue Reading
Top 10 Signs You’re Getting Older
I’ve always been “mature for my age”… which was all fine and good, until I actually started getting older. I don’t want to sound like Andy Rooney (will the kidz even GET that reference), because I believe growing older is a… Continue Reading
Some Say Hoarder, I Prefer Memory Keeper
I come from a long line of hoarders, ahem, memory keepers. I attach sentimental value to everything. Yes, it gets tiresome and yes, it gets old. I wouldn’t say I am ready to apply for the TLC show Hoarders, Buried… Continue Reading
Hollywood Nights
The thing about Los Angeles, like New York, is that anything can happen. There is just something in the air that is different; everything is on an elevated wavelength. “Famous” people live all over the world, but there is just a higher… Continue Reading
Truth Be Told, Throw Back Thursday; Take 3
I just keep chugging along with these Throw Back Thursdays. It started with part one- Darlington, which was so much fun, it led me to part two- Millsaps. Now, I am onto Jackson, life after Millsaps. Although I lived in… Continue Reading
Way Back Wednesday, Kind Of…
Since Coralie has been taking strolls down memory lane, it inspired me to go through my digital collection. I found some great ones… but one, in particular, made me laugh out loud. So, here is my throw-back and my truth… Continue Reading
Fun Things To Do While You’re Waiting: by the Numbers
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
iPhone Pics- ‘member!
The development and widespread acceptance of cell phones TOTALLY blows my mind! They are no longer just a device for making phone calls on the go, they are on-ramps for the information super highway AND they are a camera that… Continue Reading
Plant-It Hollywood**
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