#16 – Dear My Computer

Dear My Computer, Now is not the time to do the thing you like do where your clock, out of nowhere, starts running very, very, very slowly (for example, as I type this is it 1:11 p.m. and my computer says it is 12:57, depsite the fact that I *just* told it to sync up […] →Read more

#15 – Where I Am Right Now

So I just saw a tweet from @Blogathon.org saying that if you post a pic of the place you are blogging before 1 p.m. on their Flickr, you will have a chance to win a $5 sponsorship for your charity from them. And seeing as I haven’t got a single donation pledge since the start […] →Read more

#14 – A List of My Go-To Meals

Well, it looks like I’m on a roll with the food topics!  Here’s a list of my go-to meals – those meals I make all the time and can make pretty much with my eyes closed1: Egg McMaster whole wheat pasta with homemade tomato sauce vegetarian chili – which is basically just my homemade tomato […] →Read more

#13 – ZOMG, Sarah, we HAVE to try this!

So, I was searching Flickr for a photo to go with my last posting and when I typed in “101 in 1001” under the Creative Commons-licensed photo search, this was the first hit: A friggin’ Dark & Stormy cupcake!! Apparently Lauren, a.k.a. cuttlefish, had on her 101 in 1001 days list: invent a bitchin’ cupcake […] →Read more

#12 – 101 in 1001 update!

OK, I’m diverging from the book topic for a bit now.  Don’t worry, all you book-ophiles, I’ll talk more about books later.  Right now it’s time to do an update on my 101 in 1001 days list! Remember how I’m trying to do 101 things in 1001 days?  Well it’s been 195 days and I’ve […] →Read more

#11 – Stuff Cookbooks Have Taught Me

So thinking of Stuff Books Have Taught Me, cookbooks actually come to mind.   I *love* cooking!  I suppose it was actually my mom who taught me much of the stuff I know about cooking (she used to cook & bake with me and my sister all the time when we were little), but the recipes […] →Read more

#10 – Book Pre-review: The Power Of Now

The last book that I have on my list of books to read for my performance plan at work is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.  There’s a section of our performance plans dedicated to personal growth (or something like that) and I’ve been wanting to read the PoN since forever, so I figured […] →Read more

#9 – Book Review: Eat That Frog

Hot off the heels of listening to my first audiobook in the car on the way to and from work, I decided to see if the library had the next book on my list to read: Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy.  This is the one I found on in e-format! Eat That Frog is […] →Read more

#8 – Book Review: Getting To Yes

And speaking of books I’ve gotten out from the library, now I think I’ll review of a couple of them! At my new job, everyone  has to put together performance plans to plan and track their performance.  The majority of the plan revolves around planning the projects you are working on, but there is also […] →Read more

#7 – e-audiobooks at the library!w00t!

Did you know that you can get free audiobooks at the LIBRARY?  As in audiobooks that you can put on your iPod?  As in free? I discovered this totally by accident just the other day. I had just finished listening to one audiobook on CD1 and went to the VPL catalogue online to look up […] →Read more