I really need your positive thoughts and happy karma on this one because I wouldn’t have much luck with small business opportunities.
Actually, I’m almost afraid to mention it because I don’t want any jinxes, but then again, writing about it here makes it a little more official, I guess.
The school where I received my Bachelor’s […]

We’ve been having some incredibly nice weather around here for the past week or so, and it’s beginning to affect people.
On my way to church this morning,  I passed I don’t know how many yard sales, and there was a lot of nice stuff!  I saw clothes, glassware, two big bookcases, a couple of exercise […]

My neighbor Marisa is the best thing since sliced bread. No, really, she is!
I spend almost as much time in her kitchen drinking coffee in my jammies as I do in my own. Belle the pit bull doesn’t even bark when she hears me walking around to the back door anymore. She […]

My butt’s asleep, so why not the rest of me?
It’s just after 4:30 in the morning. I’ve had this laptop on my legs for six hours now. I have to meet with half of my students for individual conferences in nine hours to offer them reasonably coherent comments about their performance to this […]

The things you see when you’re driving up the road without enough death insurance!
First, the construction crews are out in force around here. Flaggers alert us to people who are filling potholes, trimming tree branches away from power lines, digging ditches to clear the storm drains, and fixing utilities. The thing is, though, […]

Hi. My name is Tammie, and I’m an addict.
I’m not talking about caffeine or nicotine, the two chemical dependencies I hold onto tightly with both hands. No, this is a different type of addiction. I’m hooked on “America’s Next Top Model.”
Have you seen it? “ANTM” is the CW’s top-rated show, so […]

Yeah, I hear you — there she goes, stating the obvious again — but I just can’t help myself. Sometimes the things people do just confuse and amaze me.
Case in point: Why is it that kids, when walking up the middle of the road in a group, will without fail split up and […]

It’s time to stop whining about the weather and get outside to play a little bit.
This afternoon, BJ and I went out to work on getting the garden ready to plant.  We have a small raised bed that’s separated from the yard with three or four courses of stacked bricks.  We took it all apart, […]

If you’re a fan of diamond jewelry, you’re going to love this one!
The folks at jewelelegance.com have teamed up with my buddies over at PayU2Blog for an awesome treasure hunt!
There will be four different online contests, and the prize for winning Week One is a $240 14k Gold Anklet.  How cool is that?
Tony says we […]

Have you ever noticed how events occur in groups of threes?
At least that’s the way it’s always been in my family. Births and deaths are the big ones, of course, but everything seems to come as a set of triplets. This time, it’s repairs we need to take care of around the […]