Monthly Archives: August 2010

Aug

2010

Date Your Mate #5: Sewing and Swearing

By jesser | Published: 10:55 am

I will not bore you with a “work date” this week. We worked so much together aside from our date that we didn't bother. But we did have a very nice “fun” date. I had two suggestions for our date, one of which I'll save for later and the other of which, Matt husband picked. [...]

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Aug

2010

Summer Slipping Away

By jesser | Published: 6:30 am

It was a nice weekend. We: • picked raspberries from our own garden (again!) • took a long walk • made lasagna cupcakes (no frosting involved, just lasagna in muffin tins) • went for a 10 mile (!) run in really hot weather • played Bunco (well just me) • had yummy brunch out • [...]

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Aug

2010

Bummed

By jesser | Published: 6:19 pm

About this time last year, we joined a new gym. The gym had been open for a few months (6, 8?) and it had received rave reviews from lots of our friends. We visited and not only was the facility amazing, but we LOVED the childcare facility. LOVED. So we joined. And we were all [...]

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Aug

2010

What’s Cooking: Volume 16 – Food Routines

By jesser | Published: 7:43 am

When I took history classes, I was always frustrated by the lack of detail. I dislike the “big picture” of dates and generals and battles. My interest in all things, history alike, is more detailed. I want to know how people spent their time, what they ate, how they relaxed, what they wore, what was [...]

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Aug

2010

Snip Snip!

By jesser | Published: 8:20 pm

Yesterday, an awful thing happened. This charming little guy, with these absolutely cherubic curls, got a haircut!!! Overall, he did pretty well, especially with the help of some lovely distracting bubbles. But mama DID NOT! Now the curls are all gone and he looks sooo grownup. *SOB!!!* Where did my little boy go? Didn’t [...]

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Aug

2010

Date Your Mate #4: 8th Anniversary

By jesser | Published: 8:24 am

Did I mention that last week was the crazy week to end all crazy weeks? Because it was. 1 night at home from Sunday to Saturday. That’s it. As a result, date nights were a bit goofy. See the rest of the dating fun at Simply Modern Mom’s 52 Dates project! Fun Date: Tuesday was [...]

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Aug

2010

More Fun with the Silhouette!!

By jesser | Published: 12:12 pm

I have been having too much fun making these custom white boards The one on the left is our brand new menu board (which fell off the kitchen counter and smashed after I finished transferring all those teeny tiny letters!!!) and on the right is the one I made for a new college student for [...]

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Aug

2010

Race Recap: Heart and Soul 10K

By jesser | Published: 8:40 pm

We decided, sort of on a whim, to sign up for the Heart and Sole 10K. Initially, I was hoping to get a decent qualifying time for Disney, but I'm pretty sure I didn't do that (Matt might have, but not me). It's a smallish race (10K and half marathon) put on by Boulder Running [...]

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Aug

2010

The Fruits of Summer

By jesser | Published: 2:22 pm

I’m not big on ornamental shrubbery. Especially evergreen bushes … they just catch tons of JUNK. So last summer, we ripped out the evergreen bushes that were in our alley. In their place we planned to put raspberry bushes but we never got around to it. So we finally put them in this summer. Neither [...]

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Aug

2010

Tooting My Own Horn

By jesser | Published: 7:17 am

Last night Matt and I went to a Vanderbilt Alumni Event. Despite being alums for 8 years, we've never been to one and it was fun. One thing we noticed was that pretty much everyone who attended was a “self promoter.” But, Matt pointed out, self-promotion isn't necessarily a bad thing. I mentioned that I'd [...]

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