Archive for June, 2009

My muse has been a leetle teeny bit cranky lately. I think she was tired after the marathon we did to finish Smoke Screen before my May 4 deadline and thought she deserved a vacation.
She flat out refused to work for a good week or two. I finally got her to stop sunbathing [...]

Holy moly, I hate to exercise. But as Jillian Michaels says, “You don’t get abs like these for free.” I really hate her sometimes, too.
I’m sore, but I’m more motivated to eat better when I exercise, so I’m at it again today. And while I like swimming laps more (I do hate [...]

I hope my husband watches this video!

This week I’m brewing Valle del Santuario from Counter Culture coffees. It was worth the trip slogging through crazy summer beach traffic–in the rain–to get to the Fresh Market to buy it.
Counter Culture is one of the Top Ten boutique coffee roasters in the country according to Food and Wine magazine. [...]

All Pooped Out

Jun. 1, 2009 1 Comment Posted under: Uncategorized

My daughter is babysitting for the next door neighbors’ three year old some this summer. One of his favorite things to do, we’ve discovered, is come over to visit our poodle, C.C. Kids love C.C. because she’s always up for a game. (Honey doesn’t like anything involving exercise…she’s more likely to be [...]