Take 7 (9)

18Dec09

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I went crazy this week.  Like, back-in-time/save the world/extremem-homemaker crazy. I made my own laundry soap. Is that crazy? I’ve wanted to do it for a while.  And this past weekend when I saw that our current laundry detergent was almost gone I jumped at the chance to make my own! And I did.  [...]

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Quirky Music

14Dec09

I rediscovered my CD’s in my car this morning.  I admit I have weird agglomeration of music, since I usually don’t look for it myself but go off almost entirely by recommendations, usually from my little brother and friends (like Zhar!).  It fits me though, since my music is quirky much like myself. I found [...]

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Take 7 (8)

11Dec09

1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I ate my salad with a spoon yesterday.  I ran out of forks.  Our other trick is to use 2 knives as chopsticks.  I still opted for the spoon. 222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 I just discovered that my hometown has Google maps street-view now!!!  I’ve been trying to check-in on the old house that I grew up [...]

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Maybe I’ll get it tattooed

09Dec09

Some days  I just want to take a sharpie and write this on a post-it and carry it around with me all day.  Or maybe write it on my forehead.  Just so I actually remember it and apply it. It just needs to be drilled it into my brain and heart somehow, because while I [...]

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Two sides to every coin

08Dec09

I’m always amazed when I read an issue that’s marketed and reported completely differently from two sources.  Its quite incredible how the same story can be portrayed in an entirely different light depending on what direction the author wanted to go. And this is why you should always. check. your. sources. Maybe I’m particularly sentimental [...]

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Secular Scientific Review of NFP and FAM

04Dec09

I recently found this review article in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine entitled “Fertility awareness-based methods: another option for family planning,” written by two family medicine doctors.  Since the question of scientific effectiveness inevitably comes up during the first NFP class of each session, I will likely include this to hand [...]

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Lasting Impressions

03Dec09

Last week, I surprised my husband in his office on the day before Thanksgiving by bringing him bubble tea! “Wow, that was a great story!” Wait! It gets better I promise! I brought him bubble tea since 4 years before on that very day (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving) we went out on what I believe [...]

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Downside to Blogging

02Dec09

Few people may know this, but when I first had the idea to start a blog my husband was pretty against it.  He was under the impression that if I started a blog in which I shared some of my innermost thoughts then I would have no reason to talk to him anymore (I also [...]

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