Entries Tagged as ‘Tips + Tricks’

July 1, 2010

Etymology Day, Part Nine

Oh sports. There are so many different slang terms for each sport, I don’t know if I will ever understand them all. But watching the World Cup, I have found a fascinating new phrase that I want to work into my own vernacular: to be at sixes and sevens. Unfortunately the only way I could work it [...]

May 31, 2010

On the Go Kit: First Aid

Being outside and being active during the summer leaves you open to a lot more scrapes and scratches, which is why I like to make a little first aid kit for summer. It includes super fun stuff. What? You want me to paint you a picture? Fine: product info here Picture painted. You can fit [...]

May 28, 2010

Take Five Friday: 100 Degrees and Feelin Fine

photo credit I think I’ve used this picture before, but I love the idea of drinking in kiddie pools so much. Well it has finally hit that spot of the year. For some amazing reason, here in the Phoenix area we have managed to have an extreeeeemely mild spring – an actual spring of several months! [...]

May 10, 2010

Fake It ‘Til You Make It

A lot of my friends ask me how I manage to stay happy all the time.   (Big secret: It isn’t all the time.)   The times I don’t feel up to snuff to face the day, I stay in bed/under my headphones/quiet in general, until it passes which, thankfully, comes swiftly. I suppose it’s the ‘swiftly’ part [...]

April 28, 2010

Weight Loss, Swimsuit Season and All Manner of Frightening Things

photo credit Looking for lady MMA fans on twitter (who weren’t just ring girl wannabes), I found an amazing girl named Jenn Marie. I started following her and she mentioned she wanted to lose weight and asked if anyone else was looking to do the same. I figured I was game, so I joined up. [...]

April 13, 2010

An Outift Made For a King

My friend Alex always comments on how cute my Album and Outfit posts are, so I thought I’d dig in my brain a little and make a set just for him. He’s a video game nerd with a penchant for Japanese food and…well, the ridiculous. So that made the ideas pretty easy. In doing this [...]