Please, please play with me!

Ah, home creature comforts: You have a nice sofa to sit on, a film to watch and a takeaway in hand. Meanwhile your dog is curled up in his basket in the land of nod.

Who wants to venture outside to tackle a 5k run in . . . → Read More: Getting Fit with Your Dog

You may remember my foray into trying to make dishsoap. It was a complete failure. It didn’t cut grease, it didn’t have any suds (I wouldn’t have minded no suds but the grease ring in my sink was just GROSS) and it just plain didn’t work. All the recipes had vinegar or lemon juice . . . → Read More: Are All the Dirty Hippies Using Dishwashers? (also, I’m totally a half-assed hippie)

I love movies and books about casinos. From documentaries to feature-films, I can’t get enough.

The thing is, I was always nervous about the lights and the noise and everything else that comes with the experience of a casino. Maybe it’s the way I process noise and sound, or maybe it’s my anxiety, but . . . → Read More: That One Time We Went to the Boats

So I was accosted by a tiny vagina yesterday. It was unexpected and in movie form. It was just the front but it still made me feel ucky.

Yes, I think that is THE most important thing to know about this movie. The second most important thing to know is that the . . . → Read More: Let the Right One In (Movie Review)

Just because I am not making any weight-related New Year’s Resolutions, it certainly doesn’t mean that I’m not thinking about the best ways to feed my family!

This post is sponsored (I get a free eMeals subscription for a year) but I’ve been hearing about eMeals on the Dave Ramsey Show for years.

Yes, . . . → Read More: New Year – New Habits – eMeals Blogger Network #GetThrifty

It seems inevitable that keeping fit will be on a lot of people’s minds at the moment. Not only is Christmas just around the corner, guaranteeing a certain amount of indulgence, but the new year and those annual resolutions are starting to loiter in the backs of minds too. New Year’s resolutions are a . . . → Read More: Keep fit resolutions for 2013 – and how to make them stick

Congratulations to the winner of this giveaway:

I’ll be emailing shortly and if the winner doesn’t respond in three days, then I’ll email a new winner using the …And the Winner Is plugin.

Thank you to everyone for participating!

Jen

As an amazing follow-up to my pizza making adventure (Get Ready for . . . → Read More: Ended: Flatout and a Walmart $50 Gift Card Giveaway!

Seriously.

I’ve been in two writing groups so far (one and a half, really, because I bailed on someone yesterday) and the quality and help and feedback have been absolutely invaluable.

If you don’t know, I’m a writer. I’ve been writing for money for a long time, probably over ten years now, but I . . . → Read More: So I’m Kind of in Love with this Writing Site for Writers (Bigger Picture Blogs)

Getting ready for the holidays is a lot of work in our house.

Among all the things we do perhaps the most important is our family brainstorming meeting – we have to decide what to put in the family grab bag gift pile. Everyone wants to have the best gift. The gift the . . . → Read More: Get Ready for the Holidays with Flatout Bread

So we finally did it. The husband and I decided that paying half the price for cell phone service was a no-brainer and we had to stop clinging to the idea that lower-priced cell phone service would somehow make us uncool old people who were shouting, “Can you hear me now?” into our phones . . . → Read More: Old iPhone Dogs Learning New Android Tricks