Stress has always been a rather big thing in my life – especially when I feel like I have to be super human to meet the expectations of people around me. It’s not that I am necessarily needing to be so. It’s more that I feel like so many things in life need to be done to take away time from just being me. If I want the place I live in to be up to the standards that I’ve grown up with, then I need to spend almost every single minute of every day […]
Blogging as Therapy?
Sometimes having a blog is just about posting what’s going on around you, what’s on your mind, and getting things off your chest. At least, that’s how Dr. Watson is supposed to treat his blog in the hit BBC series, Sherlock. I remember questioning the therapists sanity in Sherlock when I first watched it. Could she honestly be serious about going online and posting your daily life there for just anyone to read? But what I forgot to take into account is that people do that all the time. Middle school students are getting in trouble for going […]
Web Design: The Growing World of Online Interaction
Everything these days is instantaneous. Planning events with friends, you’ll get answers within minutes of deciding to do something. You’ll hear from people you haven’t heard from in eons. If you want to do something for business with the web, it’s in your best interest to keep up with all of these ideas. Part of needing that edge is to know what you need for your business or for your own general web presence. Do you have shows or exhibitions? A section of your page that you can log in to and edit that information […]
An Account of An Angry Neighbor
There are times in life where we really just have to step back and realize that something in someone else’s life must have really gone wrong because otherwise that someone has no good reason to be yelling at you. Traveling the speed limit on your own street should not, in reality, set off your neighbors. But in order to give ourselves that chance to step back, we usually need a calm atmosphere to do so in. And said neighbor being at least 24 times your size and walking over to you with their two mid-sized, […]
Get Up and Go
I can be a morning person. In fact, if I have something I want to do in the morning, I’m very much a morning person. But some days I just lack the necessary drive to be that morning person. These are usually the days that I don’t have work until noon. I should be doing laundry or making myself breakfast. Heck, I could be doing all sorts of personal projects. Working on my book, for example. Or making myself a new competition dress. Cleaning my room, maybe.
Lift Thingamabobber, “PTERODACTYL!!!”
If you don’t get the reference, it’s to Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. They made up a rather large chunk of my childhood. In a rather random blast to the past the other night, a small group of my friends and myself ended up watching the first ever episode of Power Rangers on Netflix Instant Play, and it has brought up some memories. Now, most of my memories involving them are vague. I hardly remember the show. I do remember a few key things though. There were dinosaurs
Coffee Shop
One of the great things about working in a coffee shop beyond the previously mentioned learning how to make drinks with an espresso machine is getting to experiment with drinks I already know I like. Yesterday, I was asked to make a Cup of Lovin’. Basically, it’s a latte with a shot of syrup and anything else I want to throw at it. I will also note that for a while I thought Coworker was saying “Cup Eleven”, not Cup of Lovin’. I spent all last week trying to figure out how a “Cup Eleven” […]
Intro to Wine and Vermont Made Wines
It occurred to me that the Vermont wine category has not been thoroughly explored by many of the more discriminant wine fanatics. I’m not saying this is true for all of them, just a large portion. In fact, to the individual who is unfamiliar with wine, there are three places wine comes from: California, France, and Italy. This individual will also tell you something else: If you want good wine cheap, get a Californian. Well, that is the opinion of someone unfamiliar. First of all, Red Truck (or White Truck or Pink Truck – it’s […]
This Week’s Recommendation: Grüner Veltliner Hugo 2010
It is always nice to know a wine you suggested to someone is a particular success with them. I am not a sommelier by any stretch of the imagination, but I have been able to find good wines, and thanks to a job at a wine store for the 2010 season, I know a few more good wines than I used to. I have, in recent months, begun to act as a “personal sommelier” of sorts for my friends, often being asked to suggest wines for particular meals or to hunt down wines for friends […]
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
It’s a bit of a curiosity that’s sprung up, but has probably been coming on for a while. It all started with a simple observation: “Have you been moving the coasters on the side table around?” I asked my roommate a couple weeks after we moved in. “Huh? No, I haven’t.”