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Exercising to the Oldies
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJcQmXnAD3E&feature=related I recently discovered how fun it is to listen to audio books while walking, but to be honest, if I want to ramp it up faster than a walk I have to have music. Over the…
Searching for Christmas Stories
The idea to talk about Christmas stories crystallized after several readers posted on the Romance Potpourri Forum asking for holiday recommendations and my completion of a Christmas anthology review. After reading several stories that just didn’t…
I (heart) Vintage Nightgowns!
I never considered buying intimates from a thrift store, but one day I was wondering through Goodwill and suddenly – there it was. Someone else had picked it out and decided against it, leaving it hanging…
Louboutin Lion Pumps: Thumbs waaaaaay down.
So Blake Lively was spotted wearing these new Louboutin pumps. My immediate reaction: Reeling in horror. But why? I thought about it, and to a large extent my disgust is not only purely personal, it’s also…
Unfinished Business?
Although I was kind of a goody-two-shoes teenager (and by “kind of” I mean very) I promise there are rules I break. I drive five miles above the speed limit a lot of the time. I…
Bones Baby Update: Yay or nay?
We’re a few episodes into the seventh season of Bones, and last season ended on a huge cliff-hanger and game changer: Bones’ announcement of her pregnancy with Booth’s baby. Their will-they-or-won’t-they tension has been hotly debated…
Eagerly Awaited December 2011 Books
When I started compiling everyone’s choices of the December books that they eagerly anticipate trying, I couldn’t help but wonder if the holidays were making us all a little nostalgic. Though our picks for the month…