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12 Days of Christmas Gifts for Lo

Lo and I don’t exchange “gifts” for Christmas, but I wanted to do something special for him that wouldn’t cost a ton of money.  We have a fireplace now, so we were filling stockings for each other, but I thought it would be fun to 

Do this stuff already – Goals for 2012

We don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I’m okay with setting goals for the new year.  I find them kind of silly that you should wait until the first of the year to commit to making changes.  Also, the New Year’s resolution people who 

Our Weekend – Relaxing and Organizing

We returned from vacation on Thursday, and we had Friday off from work, so we had a long, but relaxing weekend.  We really should have went to look at and test drive some cars, but instead we decided to be mostly lazy.  Lo did some 

Sunday Social – The New Year

It’s Sunday Social day where Ashley and Neely post questions each week for people to answer on their blogs and a linkup. Do you plan to change any of your eating habits in the new year? Not specifically.  I could stand to clean it up.  

Back from Siesta Key!

Seventy degrees to twenty degrees today.  We preferred going from twenty degrees to seventies when we left Ohio for Florida on Saturday – but we are happy to have our doggy back!  We booked out trip before we knew we were adopting a dog – 

Zoolights, Success!

Zoolights, Success!

We’ve planned to go to Zoolights at the Columbus Zoo for weeks with our friends.  We picked four different days and each day there was a weather issue…rain, rain, high wind, and then heavy snow.  Finally yesterday the weather cooperated and it was just going 

Mustache Madness Christmas

Besides the awesome jewelry I received for Christmas, a lot of my other presents seemed to have a theme…. Mustaches: My sister Jackie gave me most of the mustache madness, including 2 magnetic frames, a magnetic dry erase board, cell phone decals, and mustache tattoo 

Christmas and Surprises

Christmas was good particularly good to us this year!  In addition to getting to see most of both of our families (though we didn’t get to see 2 of my sisters who live out-of-state), I received such thoughtful gifts from my loved ones.  Once we 

December Birchbox Review

The December Birchbox wasn’t wonderful.  Things didn’t seem very tailored to me and I received too many lotion-type problems.  Some months are better than others, so it’s no big deal. Birchbox is a monthly subscription service for upscale beauty products.  For $10, you get a box 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Val, Lo, and Boof!  I’ll be posting very lightly over the holidays, so Happy New Year too!