My Etsy

Careers, Anxiety, & Being a 20-Something.

So, what are you going to do next?The loathed and ever-present question posited to every graduate that ever lived.

Graduating from high school, the answer was easy: “I’m going to the University of Dayton to study education!”

As a senior in college, though, the need to find an answer to that question filled me with …

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Three Planets.

I’d imagine many of you have taken this quiz at one point or another during your college career. But I recently revisited the Ecological Footprint Quiz to see what my footprint is these days. (And the quiz is totally fancy schmancy and all 3D now!) For those of you unfamiliar with what the heck an …

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MORE Visual Updates?!

We spent Memorial Day eating Chipotle at a park, playing catch, having Indian food for dinner, and watching the entirely-too-gory* No Country For Old Men. Because…why barbecue for Memorial Day when you can eat Mexican and Indian!?

So, I thought I’d try my hand at this uploading video thing…

Lunch was had right next to …

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Holiday Weekends and Stimulus Checks

This long holiday weekend, we had planned on going to Mike’s twin niece and nephew’s first birthday party and to my sister’s college graduation party. With gas at four dollars a gallon, we opted out of driving over 500 miles round trip and stayed here instead. Good for gas, good for the environment, and …

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Exposaroonie Challenge: Lovin’ Nature

This week’s Exposaroonie Challenge is the softer side of nature, in light of the recent earthquake tragedy in China, we need to be reminded that nature is also powerful in gorgeous ways. The same nature that has to power to bring a country to its knees in sorrow, loss, and fear can be the …

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I Wonder…

why I inevitably always ALWAYS sneeze after I apply mascara. (It’s so inconvenient, mascara goes EVERYWHERE.)

if I’ll get to have a President Obama in my lifetime.

why some moms and kids kiss each other on the lips (why!? it weirds me out.).

what the effect of watching the WWE has on my kids at …

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