13 Valentine’s Day Occurrences Happy Valentine’s Day! No sappy trivia today (see yesterday’s post for that)! Below are just a few of things that occurred on Valentine’s Day in history. There were a lot of others I thought were cool, but had to zap to pare it down to thirteen. 1 ) 278…
13 Cold Remedies If you’re one of the many people suffering from a cold or the flu, the Mayo Clinic has a list of remedies that have been proven or disproven to help. Conveniently, there were thirteen items on the list. Now, I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV…
13 of My Bad Writing Habits 1. “I’ve got” — yes, I talk like this, but gah, no one should write that way. 2. She verbed. / He verbed. — this is probably my favorite sentence structure. I know why, but breaking a decade+ of habit is hard. 3. Initial -ing phrasing. —…
13 Questions for Hugh Leighton I decided to take Dana’s advice and put the reticent viscount on the spot. Now, I didn’t force him to wear pink or call him “Bo Peep”, he knows if he doesn’t cooperate, he might just be attending the masquerade dressed as such. I think the Duke and…
Hm. It’s been another 10 days since I’ve updated. Bad me. Let’s see. I’ve been tagged no less than 4 times to do this meme. The following people are to blame for this: AJ Chase, Leigh Royals, Ally Kendall and Jodi Henley. I’m not going to tag anyone else, but I will add my 7…
We did get a tree and our lights up on the house. The tree is still au naturale and we keep forgetting to unplug the lights at night. Who decided that adding more obligations to my schedule was a good thing? If there’s only 5 days until Christmas, that means I only have 12 days…
I feel like such a Scrooge this year. Our house is the only one on the cul-de-sac that doesn’t have any lights up yet. With temperatures in the 70s and 80s here it STILL doesn’t feel like Christmas is less than three weeks away. My mom got 5″ of snow yesterday. I’m jealous. The kids…
  13 Things I Learned During NaNoWriMo 1. Priorities are important — especially when you have multiple projects all due by Nov 30th. 2. The month of October is for planning, start EARLIER than Oct 31st. 3. I definitely need a road map/game plan. This plan needs to be extremely more detailed. Lord SO_N_SO is…
13 Things I’m Thankful for Today 1. My Husband — He puts up with me and all my baggage. He believes in me even when I don’t. *tonk* 2. My Monsters — Thing 1 and Thing 2 — They may drive me insane, but I love them dearly. They have their precious moments too….
At our house, Halloween Candy lasts until Valentine’s Day. I may have actually forgotten to throw out last year’s loot. While it’s bundled into Ziploc bags with the kids’ names on them, I can resist the temptation. It’s that whole out of sight, out of mind thing too. We only had two bunches of trick-or-treaters…