my first time

48 Things You Could Care Less About
Oooh, my first meme!
1. FIRST NAME? LaDonna
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Yup. My Grandma wanted to name my mom LaDonna but dear old grumpy Grampster said it was way too long for such a teensy baby so she’d have to have a short middle name to call her [...]

My new favorite quote:

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you’re usually right.” — Henry Ford

From this to . . . this!

Here’s the Mason Dixon Heartbreakingly Cute Kimono (plus super cute booties) when I finished. Interestingly, even though I thought I had followed the pattern perfectly, I couldn’t have. If you look closely, you’ll see the sleeve on the right is about 1″ shorter than the one on the left. Oops! I thought about frogging it [...]

Ouch!

So there I am, riding my bike to work, minding my own business, when WHAM! Down I go. Here’s what happened: I was nearing a street on which I was going to turn left and saw a car coming up behind me. I crossed over so we wouldn’t get to the street at the same [...]