Good Reads

Good Reads

Good reads is a great site! You should join. Here is my latest book review:

Living Your Strengths: Discover Your God-Given Talents and Inspire Your Community by Albert L. Winseman

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
Great concept and I really enjoyed finding out what my strengths were. But the rest of the book lacked practical application.


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Kristen's E*Harmony Video

Here it is folks, Kristen's famous e*harmony video. Enjoy

 

i wear the pants...or at least i'm earning them.

for those of you who don't know, jeff had surgery on thursday. he had a lovely little growth on his knee that started to bother him after his stp bike ride this summer; on thursday they removed the little bugger. jeff is going to be off his feet for a little while. he should be walking normally within a week, but until then, i'm in charge! today i mowed the lawn, all by myself. i know,  you're all truly amazed. i don't know if i'm going to regret posting this, because now all those husbands out there are aware that it can be done by a woman. it took me a while and i'm sure it's not half as good as jeff could have done (cough cough), but it's liberating none the less. i also washed the car, planted a rosemary bush, took out the trash, turned the compost, killed an enormous black widow and now i'm relaxing with a beer. my, how the roles have reversed. this is what jeff has been up to for the passed few days (refer to photo). lots of video games, movies and the always interesting internet to examine. other then that, everything is going along. school is good and very busy. earlier this week i was thinking that perhaps a 24 year old should be doing something that is less stressful, like maybe i should be a part time barista or a server at a restaurant. teaching is sure taking up a lot of my time. maybe i'll go into landscaping, i have experience, you know.

Update

The passed few days have been somewhat of a fall teaser. The weather has been unbelievably wonderful (high of 90 degrees?) and you can smell fall in the air. School has officially started, so that means I will be MIA for the next 8 months. I am attempting to not become a hermit, but I can't make any promises. There are other things in life now that are bringing out the hermit in me. I started reading the Twilight series and for those of you who have read it or are currently reading it, you know exactly how deep the obsession runs. I've had to start limiting the amount of time I spend reading it (2-3 hours a day?). With the combination of school starting, the heat, and Twilight, it has left little time for working on the house. But, I thought I would include the little progress we have made; so here's a current list of what we have accomplished thus far: 1. We have painted another wall in the living room (2 down, 2 to go). 2. Mike finished stripping the paint off the fireplace (goooo Mike). 3. Jeff cleaned out the garage and hooked up the dryer. He's getting quite good at killing black widows, by the way. 4. We've picked out the design and color palette for the house, now we have to implement that. 5. Jeff cleaned out boy room, so he, Matt and Phil can escape from womankind and play music and the wii without girlfriend/wife interference. All in all, pretty productive month. The next month will be fun (painting the exterior!!!). It will look like a different house! Photos to come!