This past weekend was our second attempt at camping. The last time we went Mackenzie wasn’t even one, we did it in a tent on the beach with a couple other families. This time it was in the middle of August; the hottest, most miserable month here, thankfully we stayed in a rustic-ish cabin. By [...]

Filed under: The Whole Wide World, This Is My Life

Im married to an individual who is, like, a computer genius. He’s proud to be called computer nerd or enginerd or any other nerdy title thats bestowed upon him. Because of his hobby/vocation/calling we’re a fairly wired household. The phones talk to the computers as do the cameras which talk to the TV computers and [...]

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Just scrolling through Facebook this morning I clicked on a few links. My friend Janelle suggested we watch this, our friend Liam posted an article about how Monsanto and their GMO soybeans are now, get this, getting choked out by weeds that are now resistant to their pesticide. (Background info: Monsanto has pretty much a [...]

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My friend sent me this article today and I think it is a spot-on assessment of what is going on in the US today. It seems like the healthcare thing has really (really) fanned the flames. And to be clear I don’t belong to one party or another (Im on my own team dammit). I [...]

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Just because the healthcare bill passed does not mean that all of a sudden every lazy, jobless individual now has full, comprehensive, FREE, healthcare coverage that is paid for by you.
When you write something like this: “This freakin muslim implant! The terrorist within! Government control thanks to the dems.The only beneficiaries are the illigals and welfare [...]

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I had to do that. It seems that for the last several years my birthday has coincided with a trip. One didn’t necessarily cause the other, it just turned out that way. Its created a bit of a Pavlovian response in my husband I think “Lisa’s birthday……where should we go?” One year it was Iwakuni. [...]

Filed under: The Whole Wide World, Travel, fancy backpack

We’re all on alert at the moment for the “impending tsunami”….. Its been a busy weekend! Monday will seem so boring without any natural disasters to entertain us.
On a separate but related topic….so, the Mayans predicted the world was going to end in 2012. Maybe its just the universe clashing a little bit but first [...]

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We got some movies from Netflix today. Food Inc was in there. We watched it. I was practically drooling I watched it with such intensity. And at the end the question that kept rolling around in my head was: where along the way did we sell our SOULS?
Honestly. (And this isn’t my usual ‘Oh HONESTLY’ [...]

Filed under: "Its called food, you eat it", Iowa and Corn Make Me Happy, The Whole Wide World

One year….a long time ago…like 2003 long time ago PC and I flew to see his sister who lived in Japan at the time. We had enough miles to get business class tickets but there were no seats available on United so we were told we could use them on one of their partner airlines- [...]

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Nathan’s school is in a very residential area off base (the school itself is a house-converted-into-a-school type deal). In the house next to the school is a day-care and at the end of the block is a Japanese elementary school. Streets in Japan aren’t wide to begin with and as the little elementary kids walk [...]

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