Lisa

  • Kids, this is the story

    Of “How I Met Your Mother.” Subtitled “How Carter Bays and Craig Thomas stabbed me in the heart after nine loyal seasons.”   Last night was the series finale of one of my favorite shows. I started watching HIMYM in 2010 when Mac and I moved in together. While he was deployed the first time,…

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  • Opening Day

    Today is Opening Day. The fresh start for every team. The hopes and dreams of October. I love baseball. Hands down, it is my favorite sport. I love going to baseball games and watching games on TV. Sadly, I’m no longer a two hours drive down one interstate from Turner Field. My only hope for…

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  • Birthday care package

    Birthday care package – March

    Mac’s birthday was also our first date, so we celebrate our dating anniversary around the same time as his birthday (for the record, we actually started dating before we went on a date). I made him another care package for his birthday. I wound up shipping the cupcakes separately in a medium flat rate box….

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  • Five, make you fall in love with me

    If I had planned this, I would’ve managed to publish this yesterday on our actual anniversary. We celebrated anniversary #4 with pizza, again, but I didn’t photograph it. And we finally visited the North Carolina Zoo. Mac and I also headed over to Wilmington to enjoy North Carolina’s beautiful spring weather. We spent the spring…

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  • Pizza care package

    Pizza care package – March #1

    Since we had our first date on Mac’s birthday, I decided to send him two different care packages in March. We spent our first date splitting a pepperoni pizza Monday night special that set Mac back less than $10, so the first (for our anniversary) is a pizza care package. Tragically, I have yet to find…

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