2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]

Kicking the Habit

Hi, my name is Heather and I’m a Facebook addict. What’s that saying? The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem? Telling people you have a Facebook addiction doesn’t quite get the same reaction as saying you’re battling an alcohol or drug addiction. It’s not like anyone’s ever died from Facebooking too […]

Major Life Influence #2: Moving to Vermont at 16

This is the second of a five-post series of major life influences. See here for where it all began, and here for the first major influence. The second major life influence was when my family left the Philadelphia area and moved to rural Vermont the summer I turned 16. We had only discovered Vermont a year […]

How We Do Black Friday

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, those of you in the U.S. Ours went well, even though I joked the other day about being stressed out about the prep work. Cooking is really not my favorite activity. I like eating, but planning a menu, obtaining all the proper ingredients and assembling them into tasty […]

Happy (Almost) Thanksgiving!

Hello! Thanksgiving is two days away and Dave and I are hosting this year. Tomorrow is going to consist of me freaking out, panicking and most likely crying at some point as I prepare the house and the food. But I’m looking forward to it! Looking forward to Thursday, that is. It is my favorite […]

Austin Trip, Day 3 / Gonzales Day Trip

I must confess, Texas is growing on me. Being from the north, I have just sort of vaguely perceived Texas as that stereotypical gun-totin’, bible-thumpin’, George Bush-lovin’ redneck-filled, secession-desiring wild land. Maybe it is, but it’s still got a lot of wide open space and that’s alright by me. (Just kidding- I know a lot […]

Austin Trip, Day 2

What is with this bed? I just sat down to bang out this quick blog post and I want to just lay down and sleep immediately. There’s not a whole lot to write about today. We were in a conference room most of the day, but it was rainy anyway so I don’t feel so […]

Leaving on a Jet Plane (Again)

A quick update! I made it back from Vegas without any issues. I’ve been busy with work and with life at home since then. Meaning to post and then getting discouraged for some reason or another. Right now I’m taking a quick break from housework and cooking before I start packing my suitcase once again. […]

Vegas, Shmegas

Vegas. What can I say. It seems you can wear anything (or close to nothing at all) and it’s okay. Anything goes. If you’ve got it, flaunt it. Hell, everyone here is flaunting it, but most of it you’d rather not see. Everywhere you walk there are homeless people. I’ve seen them begging, sleeping, or […]

Vegas Trip… Part 2

Whee… It’s 2 am and for many people here, that means the night is still young. I’m kind of impressed with myself that I made it this far. If I was at home right now, my alarm would be going off to wake me up for work. Weird. Ok, so this evening we had to […]