January 2010

Sunday Sampling: Prague Zoo

January 31, 2010

I’ve decided that I want to start sharing more of my photography because I love taking pictures but I realize that not everyone will like posts with lots of images and not a lot to read. So, I’ve decided to start something I’ll call “Sunday Sampling” where I’ll share a bunch of images from a [...]

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Online Tools I use: Part 1- Windows Live Mesh

January 30, 2010

Shortly after 2010 began, my work laptop died. After my minor (ok, it really was rather major) panic attack, I started think about how this was going to impact my daily life. I have an old Dell laptop that I’m working off of at home – mainly for internet surfing and e-mail checking and I’m [...]

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Pie

January 29, 2010

Peter loves Cherry Pie. Fortunately for me, his favorite kind of cherry pie involves boxed pie crust and canned pie filling. Sometimes after I pour the cherry pie filling out of the two Lucky Leaf cans, I’m feeling guilty about my lack of culinary skills. I mean, if it was that easy, then I’m not [...]

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Be Monica

January 28, 2010

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, has the mantra “Be Gretchen” as one of her Twelve Commandments. I’m not finished reading her book yet (on my Kindle) but I absolutely love it. And while starting my own personal Happiness Project sounds like an amazingly wonderful idea – it also sounds a little overwhelming to [...]

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One day my HP Envy will arrive

January 27, 2010

but the waiting is driving me nuts. It still has a long way to go to reach Delaware! It’s due to arrive February 2.

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Design in Progress: a new look for Scattered Breadcrumbs

January 26, 2010

When I first started this blog last summer I used the WordPress website. Last summer, when Peter and I were both starting new blogs we made the decision to move to hosted WordPress because it would allow us more control our sites. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted a simple design with [...]

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TravelMuse

January 24, 2010

I discovered this website and it is totally addicting. I’m currently in the process of planning a spring break trip for my Mom and I. Normally we do an annual cruise, but this year our time and budget is limited – I’m teaching a college course that meets during the time I have spring break [...]

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Taking it all in

January 22, 2010

The view on the way to work the other day. Day 19 of my Project 365. I did a lot of thinking and reading this past week about goal setting, motivation, and change. I discovered Matt Cheuvront’s blog – Life Without Pants – and his eBook – The Inconvenience of Change – and will [...]

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What I’m Reading Right Now, January 2010 edition

January 19, 2010

Since I’m still without a regular computer (i.e. one that is set up just the way I like it), I’ve been doing a lot more reading as opposed to playing in Photoshop. This temporary laptop is just too slow to do anything but surf the internet (I get LOTS of error messages about memory when [...]

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