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Lifehacker

Posted by: dateacher on: June 24, 2009

Great day I love the blog Lifehacker right now so much I want to scream it from the tallest building I can find.  But, since I’m stuck inside at work for another 38 minutes, I’ll announce this on my blog instead!
Lifehacker rocks!  A lot of the time the tips on there are things I don’t [...]

It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Posted by: dateacher on: June 22, 2009

Mister Rogers was right, but I’m not going to ask you to be my neighbor, though there are a couple houses for sale in my neighborhood, and I have a feeling by seeing the clean up going on there will be a couple more soon.  So if you’re looking for a new house…
Anyway…that’s not the [...]

Adding space and letting go.

Posted by: dateacher on: June 20, 2009

We didn’t really add space to our house, but we did reorganize an entire room – which turned the whole house into a disaster area, please explain this someone!  By reorganizing this room it feels like we’ve added space because consolidating things and realizing there was a ton of trash in that one room we [...]

Summer Lovin’

Posted by: dateacher on: June 16, 2009

Had me a blast….
Well, I was having a blast, and then I decided I wanted a new kitchen floor.  I think we do the strangest things for money.  I think I’ve done a strange thing for money…put myself into a stressful situation.  As if I didn’t already have enough on my plate this summer – [...]

Could you do this?

Posted by: dateacher on: June 13, 2009

Could you do this? 1 dress, 365 days… http://www.theuniformproject.com/
The premise is she owns this one black dress, wears it everyday, “dolls” it up here and there, and is documenting it with a photo everyday on a blog.
It’s the minimalist wardrobe at its ultimate. Not sure I could do this; I’d really have to [...]

22 years ago today…

Posted by: dateacher on: June 9, 2009

…I graduated high school.  It was literally the best day of my teenage life!
I had many great friends during high school, and I still keep in touch with many of them.  But, I was not a fan of high school.  The division of the classes (and I’m not talking freshman, sophomore, etc) was rampant in [...]

Where do your children play?

Posted by: dateacher on: June 9, 2009

I will admit this is not something I have to worry about from the viewpoint of a parent, but I live on a street where a lot of children live.  There are days I wonder when it became “fashionable” for kids to play in the street?  I’m not talking about riding bikes – I’m talking [...]

Save Our History

Posted by: dateacher on: June 7, 2009

Or at the very least, save our history education.
This weekend, actually on Saturday, June 6, 2009, my husband was at the home improvement center getting mulch for our garden.  He noticed a woman a little younger than our mothers, pushing an older gentleman in a wheelchair.  He had lost his legs from the knees down.  [...]