blogging

  • The year of exhaustion

    2016 was a crazy year. I planned to kick off 2017 with a peppy post about our chaotic-as-always holidays, but then my grandfather died. We came home on a Sunday, and I was back on a plane to Pennsylvania on Friday, delayed by a blizzard that thankfully didn’t materialize on our side of the Front…

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  • That time I disappeared for a month…

    Grad school. You take one class at a time and work part-time but never manage to have any free time. I’m blogging from my brand-new computer. I capitalized on a sale at Staples with their very nice trade-in program and bought a $900 for $450 before tax and warranty. I’m done with my practicum hours!…

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  • Optimizing old blog posts

    I switched to WordPress two years ago (when did that happen?), and I find myself rarely looking at my old posts. To be honest, I’m a bad blogger. I don’t care about SEO, I’m no good posting on a regular schedule, and I tend to not take pictures on the rare occasion I do things….

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  • Tresemme Reverse Wash Vox Box

    I received this product from Influenster in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. As someone with fine, soft hair, I get major hair envy from hair commercials. Models with gorgeous thick hair flip their tresses back and forth and make me wonder how much it would cost to get a blowout…

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  • Remember when I used to blog?

    It’s August. Le sigh. Move-in is in two short weeks. What happened to summer? I’m slowly working my way through my Bloglovin feed because I am constantly weeks behind. I have two blog reading methods: one is to sort the blogs by date (oldest to newest) and read for a good while. The other is…

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  • The great Mac vs. PC debate

    As I’m looking at new computers, I find myself wading into the eternal turf war of electronics: Apple vs. Microsoft / everyone else. I’ve used PCs most of my life, and the majority of my Apple experience was at the private middle school I attended in Alabama. The campus was an early 2000s shrine to…

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