Just some stuff that I hope will put a smile on your face!

• When I first started this site, I thought I’d blog on a regular basis. Obviously, I changed my mind at some point (which is a spin on “I just didn’t have the freaking time to do it as often as I’m ‘supposed to’”). But this is what kicks it off and tells you a little about why I write the books I write.
• Here’s a goofy post I wrote about achieving the perfect beach body:  5 Tips to be Beach Body Ready by Summer — any summer.
• Kind of related to the Beach Body subject, here’s something I threw together about the objectification of women.

• I’m really not a fan of social media. I just wish it were a more fun and friendly place. If I ruled the world, I would enforce laws to govern our behavior on it. Since I have yet to receive my crown and scepter, I wrote this little tidbit just to get it off my chest:  Quite yer Bitchin’!
• “Be careful how you name your kids,” they said. I was careful. My husband and I agonized for months over what to name our kids. Never in a million years would I have thought that a digital system, to protect a patient’s identities, would shorten my last name and only use my son’s first initial to refer to him as:

• I cleaned my desk one day — learn about it here:  National Clean Your Desk Day
• And here’s how empowering it can be to do laundry: Geometric baskets.
• As I re-vamp my website, I’m surprised by how much I blather on about laundry. So weird. But here’s this little epiphany that happened in the mudroom.

#stop-slut-shaming-chickens

• It’s always a good idea to celebrate your own personal brand of weirdness.
• And it’s necessary to have a good work-life balance.

Is it just me, or does one of these signs seem out of place?

• Looking for a role model? Here’s Ziggy.
• What every woman really needs is this.
• Sometimes crap happens. Here’s what you can’t do about it.

Here’s proof you really can buy happiness! I bought it at the Korean market:

Finally! Someone threw out the kitchen sink, too.