I came home yesterday to find this: What is this white stuff everywhere?  Is it snowing in June?!?!? No it's not snow.  My neighbor's cotton tree is fluffing and sending all this white cotton-y fluff into our yard.  It happens every year and it always reminds me of snow.  I like to think of it as… Continue reading Snow?

Attention anyone living in southern KC on the Kansas side!  Tomorrow, April 17th, the Overland Park farmers' market is officially open.  I am going and I'm super excited! Even though I have my own garden, I like to frequent farmers' markets to fill in the gaps.  Shopping at farmers' markets is beneficial in so many ways. … Continue reading Farmers’ Markets

 I have some very exciting news!  Two months from today I am going on vacation.  I'll let this picture be a clue.... HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO excited.  Benzo and I have been planning this trip for awhile now, but it always felt a little like a pipe dream until recently.  We booked our plane tickets… Continue reading Leaving on a Jet Plane

The warmth and sunshine on Tuesday put me in a great mood, but unfortunately that mood did not carry over into Wednesday.  Yesterday I had an okay morning.  I woke up and met a friend for a run before work and before it started raining.  On my way into work it really started raining and… Continue reading Losing Something of Value

This is how Kansas welcomed the first day of Spring yesterday: With a freaking blizzard!  It was the strangest thing.  We had 60 degree weather last Thurday and Friday.  Over lunch on Friday I was driving around with my windows down.  Then the temperatures started dropping Friday evening.  And by the time we woke up… Continue reading Um….Spring?

When I woke up this morning the outside temperature was 4 degrees F, with a wind chill that makes it feel like -8 degrees F. On top of that I also forgot to turn my alarm off last night so it woke me up at 5:45am on a Saturday! I tried to go back to… Continue reading So. Much. Snow.

Hello blogosphere! I'm back to blogging again! First I would like to apologize to all the people who left me nice comments the past year. I just moderated them all last night. About half my comments are spam so I have to moderate them. That's why they don't show up right away on the blog.So… Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions

Term of the day:GLAMASAURUS REXInferred meaning: to be completely and totally glamourous as in so glamourous that you feel like a million bucks and have extreme confidence.Discovery of term: "I was in my Glamasaurus rex outfit earlier and I got changed out of it and I'm a little bit more comfy" as said by Anne… Continue reading Glamasaurus Rex

I'm messing up my posting routine now! My mom and I were at my grandparents' house a couple of weeks ago and we got to talking about how my mom LOVES blackberries. I said that we should find a place where we can go pick them ourselves because I think that would be fun. She… Continue reading Afternoon Links: Pick Your Own