In some of my geekier moments, I dream of the day when a Transporter device such as the one they use so regularly in Star Trek will actually come to be. A device which would eliminate the need to stuff your entire wardrobe, enough provisions to last a month, and your future spouse into a [...]
What do The Fickle Nickle and the Domesticated Gal have in common? Other than a love of all things vintage, blogging, and Mad Men? It just so happens, that she too has a way with words! I’m always amazed at how easily a few sentences from this lovely lady can utterly captivate me. Her posts [...]
It seems like every blogger I “know” is moving this summer. And today’s guest host, Me:Daily? Is no exception. An yet somehow, amidst packing/unpacking, moving, starting a brand new job, and guiding her family through it all, she still managed to pull out a brilliantly funny post for ya’ll! Me:Daily is a refreshing read filled [...]
Growing up in a military family, road trips were as natural to my siblings and I as breathing, eating, and reflexively adding “sir” to the end of any statement. Every 6mo-2years or so, at the request of the Air Force, we’d pack up the station wagon and road trip it to our next base. Suitcases, [...]
If you are reading this, then I have survived the first day of our two-day road trip. The third road trip in as many months. And my first one solo with the Little Man. Let me just say – the if in the above sentence? Is a mighty big If. I can now say for [...]
I’m fairly certain that at some point, everyone searching for a life-fulfilling career eventually ends up at a temp. agency. We all use the same justifications: it’s a foot in the door of the life-fulfilling career, its something to do while waiting for the life-fulfilling career to open up, its something to pay for the [...]
Once upon a time (about 2.5 years ago) in a town far far away from here in a mythical land of trees, mountains, and wineries, the Big Man took me out to Ye Olde Towne Manassas. We strolled along the brick paved sidewalks, my freshly manicured hand clutching his muscled arm a little tighter each [...]