Life
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Working on a plan or will with my husband, Raymond, ended up being the hardest goal to accomplish. I think that the idea was sound, wanting to give myself some peace of mind should anything happen to him that renders him unable to work, whether temporarily or permanently. However, the actual execution was difficult because…
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Over the past eight years, we have had numerous packages crammed into our mailbox that weren’t meant to be bent, or that were difficult to get out of the mailbox because there was no wiggle room left. I also think that our cookie-cutter mailbox is ugly, but since it’s one of the cheapest models available…
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I didn’t understand why my husband kept saying, “Good luck with that,” whenever I listed our at-home spa day as one of the remaining forty goals I had yet to do. I had successfully had such days before, and I didn’t see how it could be that difficult to acquire some face masks and the…
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~These donuts from Mochinut were oh, so good. (June 1, 2024)~ Two years ago, I got to try some mochi donuts from Mochinut while on a date with Raymond. They were delicious but driving about an hour, through often heavy traffic, to get more, didn’t sound too appealing. So, I looked up a recipe and…
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Getting professional photos done of our family was something I included on my Thirty Before Thirty list. While I did mark it as accomplished on a technicality, it wasn’t really what I had envisioned. We got our family photo taken with Jeremy Renner at a ComicCon in San Jose, and went home with a nice…
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There is an awkwardly shaped wall in our living room, sandwiched between two open entries into said room. Part of this wall is cut on a diagonal on one side because our staircase is on the other side. I am sitting here on my front porch struggling to describe this wall. Regardless of my lack…
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The kids and I attempted a backyard picnic last summer. I made my son and I chicken salad on croissants, and my chicken-salad-hating daughter made her own pizza croissant. On the side I gave each of us apple slices and some blueberry pie flavoured Oreos to try. Each of us had a different drink that…
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The Hard Way (ie: How I Learned Everything) is the title, and subheading, I gave to the book I wrote for my kids. This endeavor was something I actually started writing for my kids as my project for NaNoWriMo in 2024. I met the word goal at the end of that November but still had…
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Admittedly, my motivation to finish the Forty Before Forty challenge I set for myself has been dying a slow death. I have tried to remain optimistic about completing the remaining items, despite my husband’s unemployment woes and the dwindling savings we have been living off of. However, our family has reached the point where we…
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I tried a new-to-me fruit on January 25, 2025. Why has it taken me so long to write about it? Well, as I mentioned in my post about hanging a pegboard in my art room, at the time I didn’t think the result of my attempt was good enough. The fruit wasn’t exotic enough, it…