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Monday, January 25th, 2010
How to get up in the morning: Second idea
OK.. This is cool. Heard about it just last week from a college student I know. Bacon-cooking alarm clock by Matty Sallin. Read the post at Make: Online where they have all sorts of cool stuff you probably never thought of.. but now that somebody has… you want to make one, too, doncha? If you [...]
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Reusing grocery bags
I have learned that if you that if you take your own bags to the grocery store, even if you only pack their bags into them when you get to your car, it takes A LOT fewer trips to get all that crap (er, food) into the house. AND the worst part about grocery shopping, [...]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Delay is preferable to error
Ian King posted on his FaceBook page this morning this quote by Thomas Jefferson: Delay is preferable to error. Ian says it’s like being able to “press the ‘pause button.’” And that makes for a much “different life.” His friend, Nancy Robinson, worried, in her comment to Ian, that delay might let her forget entirely. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Deciding: Why is it so hard? by Kerch
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Making a plan and sticking to it
Once upon a time, long long ago, my husband and I had a party. Actually, we’ve had pretty many since then. But I digress. At the time of that particular party, we were in the middle of doing planning a lot of projects around the house. We had the list of all those projects posted on [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Deciding: Why is it so hard?,General,Priorities by Kerch
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
How to get up in the morning Redux
Funny how one of the most viewed posts on my blog is one called “How to get up in the morning.” I thought it a bit of an odd fluke til I read over at MakeUseOf.com that THEY also noticed it’s something people search on a lot. So they reviewed an online alarm clock that [...]