Lisa

  • High Five for Friday: the home stretch

    It’s crazy how we’re already halfway through our Fridays in July. 1. Leslie’s wedding is in two weeks! We still have to plan her bachelorette party. Ooops. Here’s hoping we can do it right before the wedding. 2. My sorority little is up in the DMV taking some classes at Johns Hopkins. We went out…

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  • Deployment essentials

    Since about 75% of the bloggers I follow are currently pregnant, I keep seeing the semester or pregnancy essentials posts about what they use or need to get through the baby-gestating process. Around these parts, I am not growing a baby, so I decided to spoof their idea for my deployment essentials.    1….

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  • Easy cookie bars

    Easy cookie bars

    I saw this recipe the other night and decided to give it a try. While I love cookies, I also love the sheer laziness of cookie bars. All the taste and chewiness of cookies without the hassle of scooping dough. You also don’t have to soften butter or chill the dough. The base of the…

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  • Life as a grandcat

    It’s Purrburger here today. I’m hijacking Mommy’s blog, so I can share my adventures in our new house. These days, life is pretty good. I miss Daddy, but I have two new humans to cater to my every whim. And they’re much more willing to feed me than Mommy.   5:30 am. Time for my…

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  • Hometown tourist

    Mac and I have been planning stuff to do while he’s home on leave. We’re not going on vacation, so we’re sticking to this area. Since I didn’t grow up in Northern Virginia, I love visiting Washington, DC and doing fun, touristy things. Here’s some of the stuff we want to do. See DC from…

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  • Fourth of July recap

    Friday, I headed up to Baltimore to meet my parentals. If flying were half as wonderful as Amtrak, it would be halfway decent. We checked in and headed down to the Inner Harbor. We decided to walk around to Fort McHenry which is a much further walk than it seems. It was really cool to…

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