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Coming home from a mini-vacation always means having to find my way back into some semblance of a routine. Not that I’m ever great at following a proper routine, but getting back into it is such a pain. I had a wonderful time on my trip to see my family and my best friend. I spent time with both of my beautiful nieces and all of my immediate family (including a steak dinner from my parents!), and then got to spend a few days hanging out with T and her beautiful family. The best part of being home is being…

Yay! After Wednesday night’s performance finale, I rushed to my phone and dialed the number to vote for Jeanine at least 100 times. I think I must have gotten through at least 20 times! I was so happy when she was announced as Season 5’s winner of So You Think You Can Dance. She really deserved it! After the elimination of my personal favorites this season (Janette and Kupono), Jeanine was really the only dancer I got super excited about watching. To see both her and Brandon standing up there as the top 2 made me very happy. Both of…

Okay, I admit it. I am a material girl. And no, that doesn’t mean I woke up this morning thinking I turned into Madonna. I just mean that I like material things. I love having a thousand pens in every different color. Without my computer and my candles and my car and my books, I don’t know what I would do. Shopping for new things makes me happy, dammit! And I am not going to be ashamed about that. Sure, the church teaches us that we should be happy in the Lord and that material wealth is not important, etc…

Today is the first day for weeks that there is no rain in the forecast! Woohoo! I haven’t minded the cooler days, but the overcast skies and rainy afternoons have been a drag lately. Yesterday, we had a huge rain shower. It got so loud, I had to go downstairs to watch it and make sure we weren’t going to float away. For a minute there, I thought maybe there was some hail involved, but it turns out it wasn’t that bad. Today, the forecast says sunny skies and low nineties! It’s probably going to feel pretty hot compared to…

Recently, my doctor told me that I am deficient in vitamin D. She instructed me to take twice the daily recommended amount and to come back for further blood tests. I started out okay by taking a tablet with 1000 IU (whatever that is) of Vitamin D, which claims to be 250% of the daily rec. dose. But, as per usual with me and pills I’m supposed to take, I slowly forgot to take them and eventually stopped completely. Today, though, I got a newsletter that I subscribe to through email telling me that new research indicates women with PCOS…

More to Love. It’s basically the Bachelor with so called “real” people. Plus-sized is the P.C. term. Obese is probably the technical term for many of the people on the show. Yes, big girls need love too, we all know that. But something about the show comes off as too much of a gimmick to me. Also, I was expecting voluptuous women with confidence who ate what they wanted freely and without guilt and who loved themselves despite their weight. I don’t know what dream planet I was living on there for a minute, but apparently Fox couldn’t find 20…