I didn’t think I would have the time to squeeze in any more books before the end of the year, but low and behold I’ve read two more since the last post.
The first was Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling. It was quick little read of what were, essentially bedtime stories that were [...]

Over the past few days I have been increasing my tech savvyness.

I had been hearing about this thing called Twitter but just thought it was another social networking site like Facebook and MySpace, and so I wasn’t that interested. However, on Friday, listening to Talk of the Nation’s Science Friday show, I heard a bit [...]

The website for LeafyT’s is finally up and running. LeafyT’s is the business at which my husband works. They hand make shirts (and other stuff) like the one you see below. Each shirt if one of a kind.

They do custom work as well. If you have something you want leafied up, they will do it. [...]

Lys had her VIA Signature Strengths up on her blog, and I was curious as to what it was. So, I followed the links to the Authentic Happiness webpage and took the VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire. It was pretty interesting. Here are my signature strengths:

Your Top Strength

Curiosity and interest in the world
You are curious about [...]

I was talking to my 14 year old cousin this weekend and found out that she is not taking English this year. This shocked me. “Don’t you have to take 4 years of English in highschool?” I asked. “No, you only have to take 2 years,” was her response. WHAT?!?!
This freakin’ blew my mind. Seriously? [...]

I finished reading Emma yesterday. This book started off annoying me. I put the book down so many time because the character of Emma annoyed me so much. However, by the end I found that I really enjoyed it. The transformation reminded me of character of Simon in Tad William’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. [...]