Hello my dear blog friends! I want to apologize for my absence lately. To be honest, I’ve spent the past month in a frenzy and a funk. Yes, those two things might seem incongruous, but both are completely accurate descriptions lately! The good news is that as of this week, I feel like I’m back to me again, ready to take control of my schedule and to move...

Last year I was on the hunt for a new “to do” app. What I had was simple and free but wasn’t really working for me. I had an unwieldy to do list. I couldn’t seem to get both work and life tasks done. I knew I needed a more powerful organizational system, but didn’t know what to do. After some searches on the internet, I learned about the...

I am generally a creature of habit, especially when I find a product that works for me. In fact, once I find a product that fits my lifestyle or thought processes, my biggest frustration is having to replace it and not being able to do so with the exact same thing! So when I opened my Google Reader–where I keep all the blog feeds I browse through every...

Until my computer died in early December, I’d been using a nifty little browser add on to help limit my roaming the internet when I was supposed to be working. When I got the new computer set up, it was the holidays, things were a little looser. So as I slowly built back up all my programs and bookmarks and such on my computer, I let that one go. It...

I wasn’t quick to jump on the iphone bandwagon. In fact, my husband finally had to insist. Now I love my iphone. When the ipad came out, I thought very cool but that didn’t translate into a willingness to spend the money. I wasn’t sure it would be worth it in the sense of productive things I could do with it. I had my phone and my laptop, what...

So we decided this week to move our “library” (a set of floor-ceiling bookshelves crammed with books) from what had been the formal dining room into our actual living room. We like being surrounded by our books, and with our love seat now gone to reside in our daughter’s first off campus apartment, we had room. So we (read: I) unloaded all the books...