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… but I got chosen by Draw You Maybe! Chaz Hutton became one of my fave IG follows because of his great comics. And then he started drawing his followers, so I found great artists and travelers to brighten up my feed. So imagine my surprise to get this notification…. I rarely win anything, and
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Much like one of my favorite fictional heroines, Bridget Jones, I love a good mini-break. Hampton and I originally had plans to do a big French vacation for our 5th/my 40th… but then we bought a house. So we did three mini-breaks this spring and summer instead. And totally saved money, I’m sure. Since I’m
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As mentioned before, I don’t usually celebrate my birthday, and my friend Jenny has good ideas and a way with a camera. Besides excellent peer pressuring skills. What started as a joke turned into… something else altogether. If you only celebrate your birthday once a decade, make it count, yeah? So, now that things have calmed down
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I don’t usually celebrate my birthday – not because I hate the number, I hate the attention – but if I were ever going to acknowledge, it had to be this one. So I decided to give my Instagram followers a present – my favorite frugal beauty product recommendations. I know, I know, I shouldn’t
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April had cooking, and reading, and even a minibreak to Charlotte. But rather than highlight those things, I took the time to focus on another Susannah Conway Instagram meditation. Feel free to click here to explore the full photos – some of the prompts related to the day at hand perfectly, and some were a good
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The world is full of happy accidents. Somehow, in a way I can’t remember, at the end of 2017, I found Susannah Conway’s “Find Your Word” program. It was a great way to focus 2018. In another mysterious manner, I recently signed up for Sara Weinreb’s The M List. Her daily email tips are both
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Christmas looked a little different this year. As it was a Tuesday and Hampton works that retail life and my day job is open 24/7, we decided we would just stay home and have a day to the two of us. Of course, after I committed to an offertory on Christmas Sunday and two Christmas
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It was predicted that our area of central NC was going to get hit with a whopper of a storm. And for once, “they” were right. Sunday, we got approximately 14.5″. We usually average less than half of that in an entire year. My choir gig’s Christmas cantata was canceled (and our second show at
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I haven’t meant to go radio silent. #flat493 is gearing up for an unexpected life change — not a baby — so I will admit I have been a smidge preoccupied. The last few weeks have had lots of cooking and trying to keep up with all our stories on the teevee while snuggling the
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Before I came to my present day job, I was in an environment so not right for me, it drove me to therapy. While I am in a much better place now, physically and mentally, I am still trying to be conscious – or should I say “mindful” – of mindfulness; good mental health is in
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