have some compassion…

at the risk of sounding like one of those commercials you’ve seen hundreds of times about children in third world countries who need your sponsorship, hey, there are millions of children out there who could really use your sponsorship.
i have sponsored a child through compassion, Christian child advocacy ministry, for a few years now and [...]

so what it’s a fake…

in the spirit of wanting to save a buck or two this Christmas, we opted not to buy a real Christmas tree as we usually do. sure, it’s a little sad, but we’re over it. we get over things pretty quickly in our household.
anyway, in the past, some of our trees have looked quite lovely, [...]

gotta make the donuts…

saturday morning, 7:30 am-ish and i woke up to one dreary morning.

it’s not that i wanted to wake up that early, but i had plans for an ultra-exciting day…work. of course i’m being facetious. there’s nothing exciting about going to work on a freakin’ saturday, people.
nothing.
and it’s not like i volunteered to come in because [...]

show a soldier some love…

go ahead and make a soldier’s day by going to the let’s say thanks website.
this site was created by xerox and it’s as easy as pie to get your message to a soldier during the Christmas season!
all you do is choose a postcard (and there are a bunch of choices), personalize it by entering your own [...]

i won!! i won!!

i mentioned recently that i didn’t think i’d win a prize for nablopomo, and i was right. i didn’t win a darn thing for blogging every day during the month of november. and trust me, you would’ve known by now if i’d won something because i’d be blabbing about it. but it’s all good because [...]

the nephew…

last weekend my sis-in-law went out of town to celebrate her big 23rd birthday and instead of living la vida loca and joining the party train, we were penciled in to babysit our nephew kody. i think this whole plan was my husband’s suggestion and for some odd reason he really, really seemed excited about [...]

reckless…

going 20 miles over the speed limit in the state of virginia can land your butt in jail.
did you know that?
yes indeedy. say you’re going 75 on 495 (aka the beltway) and the speed limit is 55, you face a class one misdemeanor criminal charge which is punishable by up to 12 months in jail, [...]

23 days till Christmas…

and i have not bought one lick of a gift. haven’t even thought of one thing to buy. i don’t have a really large family, but it’s big enough to set me back a bit if i was really interested in going into major credit debt. which i’m not. so i’ll probably get the ol’ [...]

i have been tagged (again)!!

yep, it’s meme time again in the city. i’ve been tagged by the luvly author of new york portraits. thanks dahling, for now i have something to blog about.
this is one i haven’t seen before. not that i’m master of all blog things. i’ve only been doing this for a short period of [...]

hey nablopomo!! did i win??

 i have completed the race…
i have crossed the finish line…
i rocked this funky joint…
yes, i have blogged for 30 straight days and baby, i did not miss a freakin’ beat.
ya hear that?
not a beat.
so will i win anything? probably not.
i never win anything. and no, i’m not going for pity when i say that.
actually, that’s [...]