See. Do. Eat. Read. Live. Buy. Write.

So I mentioned a gimmick in my last post, with the title as a hint. I hope that I came up with something that will keeping me writing on a diverse group of topics and keep blogger block away for at least a while.

Here is the plan. I have picked 7 fairly broad verbs that pretty much explain how I spend my non-work life. 7 verbs for 7 days of the week, with the idea that each day gets "assigned" as topic to blog about. Here is what you have to look forward to...





See: Notes about my actual travel, plans to travel, or hopes to travel.


Do: I'm thinking this stays a fairly broad topic and notes things to do (of that I did) because they are cool, nice, good.


Eat: Pretty self-explanatory. Good food, beverage, recipe ect. that I want to share.


Read: Suggested reading lists and reviews of what I have read or am reading.


Live: Another broad topic focusing on general life stuff that doesn't fit in any other category.


Buy: Products with reviews or purchases to share.


Write: I challenge myself to add one semi-creative, hopefully entertaining writing post per week.





Now two disclaimers:


1-I reserve the right to add or take away a verb as it fits what I want to post about. We all need a little excitement to look forward to, right?


2-With this new format comes the end of corny post titles. All you are getting is the verb title to give you a clue where I am heading--you can make up the rest.





Stick with me, comment often.

Revise

103 posts later (this makes 104) and several busy months off I have come to several conclusions.

1)I really enjoy blogging, but sticking with just home decor stuff is not really keeping the pages full.
2)I need a gimmick, something to keep the blogger block away--even in the busy months.
3)I may have found my gimmick, so stick with me to see where this all goes. Hint: it involves me not having to come up with post titles, yay!!
4)I make no promises about pictures on lengths of posts. Let's just shoot for new, diverse content each day.
5)I am not a tech person, but for the last 12 hours have been obsessing over the new Droid Incredible by Verizon, that and actually having Internet on my phone. Really, am I that girl?

So stay tuned for some revision, a new look, and regular posting--at least through the summer. I promise to try to keep you entertained.

And she is off...

This is our dog Carly.

This is an example of one of our folding sports chairs that I was sitting in this afternoon.

Sadly, what I do not have it a video of our dog Carly running around three houses in our neighborhood dragging our red folding chair behind her.

I hooked Carly's leash to the chair, then got up. Yeah, we won't do that again.

Nice post of return on don't you think? Anyone still out there?

Southern Flourish

I have only clicked through (as opposed to flipped through) this new online mag written for "young southerners" by "young southerners." It looks fabulous.

Check it out here. The spring issue also features Young House Love's "favorite room," so you know the editors have picked stellar contributing writers.

Found at IKEA

Ikea is normally pretty hit or miss with me; I'm partial to pretty traditional style with home decor and furniture. I do stop in from time to time looking for odds and ends or accents. This weekend this was staring me in the face (amist the bumping shopping carts and screaming children that is IKEA on Saturday:), and I love it.

It's a soft gray color and from the Edland series. I would probably change the hardware (which after inspection seems doable), but the $199 price tag is pretty nice.

Good enough for Facebook

Apparently my hubby thought dinner last night was good enough for a facebook shout out. Not sure if it was really that awesome or he just had not had a home cooked meal for weeks. (The fault of his crazy work schedule, not my lack of dinner prep:)


We had homemade black bean burgers and homemade potato chips with spicy ranch dip for the burgers, chips or both. I will link to the recipies because I can't seem to paste them in.

Spicy Ranch
Black Bean Burgers
Homemade potato chips

PS The hubby made quite a face when I told them that the dinner menu was black bean burgers, so by the end it must have made quite an impression.

Making it work

I am usually a fan of making it work in the kitchen. When a recipe doesn't go exactly as planned or I am 3/4 of the way through cooking before I realize I don't have something vital I can usually figure it out and manage a fairly decent result.

This was not the case Thursday night as I was making cookies. I managed to beat into the batter an entire egg, by entire I mean including the shell. Nice.

PS There is no way to recover from that, especially since the cookies were for a baby shower.

Note: You may have noticed my lack of blog posting (sorry), so I'm thinking about some changes. Stay tuned.