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...

I hate cooking dinner. I hate it more than cleaning house and doing laundry. I hate going to the grocery store because it is related to cooking dinner. But lately I haven’t minded so much. Why? Pinterest! I’ve tried to figure out why Pinterest has helped to temper my hatred of cooking dinner when an abundance of cookbooks or websites have not. I think it...

Let me just start by saying I’m extremely frugal. I rarely pay for anything I can live without. (Of course there are times I say “cost be hanged” and get what I want, but that is very rare!) Anyway, suffice it to say, this trait extends to the app store for my phone. I usually don’t even look at the paid apps! But at the recommendation of two people I...