At Home
A Cup of my Own Tea
Normally throughout the summer I’m busy snipping off bits of one herb or another to dry and enjoy in cups of tea throughout the year. But this year I decided not to bother. After all, I won’t be here this winter to enjoy it and dried herbs, if properly stored, only last for a year. &hellip Continue reading
One Month and 14 Days
As of today we have one month and 14 days till our plane takes off. On one hand this summer is flying by (I have so much to do!) on the other hand, it’s a slow, painful crawl. Last month I got laid off from my job, but I was able to go back to &hellip Continue reading
How to Afford Traveling
When we originally started planning on moving to China, there was one giant obstacle in our way: money. We’ve never made much money and pretty much spend what we made on our bills and living expenses. Since I work freelance, I don’t have vacation days so even if we go away for a week, I &hellip Continue reading
Buying Travel Insurance
Today I took one baby step closer to moving to China. I bought travel insurance! Now some people might think that was silly, especially as the school we will be teaching at will provide us with health insurance while were in China, but I feel relieved. I’m not so worried about while we are gone, &hellip Continue reading
Who says you can’t train a cat?
This is for all you dog people who say that cats are “stupid” because you can’t train them. (Thanks to I Can Haz Cheezburger for this one)
Traveling Round the Web
I had an unexpected month-long job offer, and I started last Monday. On one hand, it will allow us to save a little bit more money for China, but on the other hand it is really taking up a lot of my time, and energy, which might be better spent elsewhere. So instead of a &hellip Continue reading
Clearing the Clutter
“I’m looking forward to living in a small space and not having so much stuff to worry about.” My husband Ryan said this to me the other night at dinner and I agreed. Saying goodbye to our stuff won’t be sad. It will be a relief. It’s not like we live a huge expensive lifestyle. &hellip Continue reading
It is not my Unbirthday Today
If you’ve never seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland animated movie, then that title makes no sense to you. In the movie, Alice stumbles upon the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and they are celebrating “unbirthday,” that is, any day that is NOT your birthday. But yes, today is my Birthday. I turned 33. My big plans &hellip Continue reading
Upoko
I’m not going to miss much when we move to China, but I am going to miss this little fuzz ball sleeping next to me while I work….
Picking Colors
While I’m working on designing my website I stumbled upon a good color website. I’m terrible with picking colors that look good together so this site was a big help! It doesn’t have every color combination known to man, but it does have over 250 different color combination swatches which was way more than I &hellip Continue reading
