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Things I’ve Learned After 20+ Years of Blogging

You know you’ve been blogging a long time when your first posts were written on a dial-up connection, you used “guestbooks,” and you thought “web rings” were a legitimate marketing strategy. Yep. I’ve been blogging for over two decades. That’s…

New Blog? Kinda.

It’s been a while, a long while, since I last blogged. It’s been well over a year, and in that time I allowed my hosting to lapse, which means all of my past posts, almost two decades worth, were deleted.…

My Life For The Next Few Days

I’m no stranger to sinus headaches and pressure. In fact, I get them regularly. But the ones I’ve been dealing with for the past week have been horrible. Usually, I can relieve the pressure and pain with some over-the-counter medicines,…

Homemade Taco Seasoning

Have you ever taken a look at the ingredients in prepackaged taco seasoning? If not, then you really should. It is filled with unnecessary ingredients, like sugar in various forms. Why does taco seasoning need any form of sugar in…

Vacation Maybe

Well, we may or may not be taking a real vacation this summer (maybe late June) to the beach. We haven’t been on an actual vacation since 2010 when we went to Kennywood and Sandcastle, and we haven’t been to…

Update via Bullets and Pictures

My 35 birthday was on the 11th of this April. God, I am so freaking old. Raven had college orientation on the 18th. We got to tour the school and learned some of the ins and outs of how it…

A New Year

Our first picture of 2015. While I don’t want to make resolutions, since I never seem to stick to them, there are some things I want to try to accomplish in 2015. If I don’t accomplish them, I don’t want…

Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipe

I absolutely love pumpkin pie spice and use it regularly throughout the summer, fall and winter season. And while I do try to keep this spice on hand, there has been more than one occasion when I desperately needed it…