25CentLife.com http://25centlife.com Because 2 cents isn't enough anymore Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en 1518592http://www.feedburner.com Attention Ladies! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/503744968/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/05/attention-ladies/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:55:47 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/?p=92 If you’re responsible enough to hold a job, you’re responsible enough to clean up after yourself if you bleed/pee/poop on the toilet seat.

Come to think of it, the same applies to men as well.

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/05/attention-ladies/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/05/attention-ladies/ One weekend. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/502992354/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/04/one-weekend/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:38:57 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/?p=90 One post. So much for a post a day…

Saturday-

  • First guitar lesson
  • First practice
  • First time opening the piano in YEARS, and actually practicing
  • First Mexican food outing this winter
  • Saw Marley and Me

Sunday -

  • Went with Jeff to get his first guitar (steel string acoustic, like mine)
  • Second guitar practice
  • Finished the rest of the oatmeal lace cookies from the other day
  • Watched my camera die
  • Recharging the camera battery

Nothing too over the top or remotely interesting. And no daily photos for either day, sadly.

A full work week starts tomorrow, so I’d better start on the early bed time again. How many more days till the next holiday season? /sigh/

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/04/one-weekend/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/04/one-weekend/ Oatmeal lace http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/501517925/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/02/oatmeal-lace/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:58:24 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/?p=87 Oatmeal Lace Cookies

Oatmeal Lace Cookies

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/02/oatmeal-lace/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/02/oatmeal-lace/ I baked. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/501467536/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/02/i-baked/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:42:21 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/?p=85 I didn’t work today. Yay. I know a lot of people who did. I tend to get this craving to cook, more accurately, I get a baking itch on my days off. I had an absolutely amazing lemon meringue tart not too long ago. But I didn’t need another disaster similar to my lemon meringue pie incident (disasters for another day, another post).

So I scoured the internet (as well as many of my favorite food blogs), and came across an easy looking recipe from Katy over at Sugarlaws: Chocolate-Drizzled Oatmeal Lace Cookies.

Seriously, how yum do those look? I wish I had taken her warning about how much the cookies spread to heart. While baking, the oatmeal sheet overtook my entire baking sheet. Thankfully, due to the amount of butter in the recipe, it was relatively easy for me to detach from my cookie sheet. The first batch, I rolled into a longish log shape. Instead of a chocolate drizzle, I made a chocolate dipping sauce. I had less batter to work with for the 2nd batch, so I just made four dollops, and ended up with two longish cookies, about 4 inches wide and 8 inches long.

I have a picture for posting of the 2nd batch, I will try to remember to post soon.

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/02/i-baked/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/02/i-baked/ Polka dots http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/500436918/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/polka-dots/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:43:25 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/polka-dots/ This is the start of my new daily photo series. Filipinos have a belief that if you wear polka dots during New Year’s Day or the ball drop, you won’t go broke during the next 365 days. Here’s to that.

polka dot feet

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/polka-dots/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/polka-dots/ inspiration 7 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/500403000/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/inspiration-7/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:50:12 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/inspiration-7/ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau

He that will not reflect is a ruined man. ~Asian Proverb

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. ~Yogi Berra

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/inspiration-7/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/inspiration-7/ A compromise http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/500398213/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/a-compromise/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:40:00 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/a-compromise/ Instead of writing a really impressive motivational post regarding my plans for 2009, I’ve been spending my time doing a little New Year’s cleaning. I realized what sort of impact my not-writing for two months has done to my virtual housekeeping.

I logged into WordPress a few days ago to write my lead-in post for the New Year. Imagine my horror when I saw I had 6,500+ comments to moderate. Given my lack of posting in Q4 2008, I was pretty sure that all 6,500+ were spam. Yeah, not too keen on having to bulk edit those (which, I’ve found, I can do in either 20 comment or 50 comment chunks). I decided to leave them for whenever I decided to post again.

That ‘whenever’, means today. As a much deserved break from mass-deleting unwanted spam messages — deleting in chunks of 20 is faster than chunks of 50, since I don’t have to scroll through the entire ‘comment’. I’m posting. But not posting the content I’d hoped I’d post.

Lessons learned for today:

  • post more
  • keep better tabs on my spam count
  • don’t procrastinate as much
  • finish what I start

That last thing is really my official New Year’s resolution. I’ve got oodles and piles of things that I’ve started in the past, but never really saw them through. (Like my 3 or 4 draft posts on deck, at the moment. Should clear those out after I’m done posting.)

So, I’m going to finish this post. Make a bit more headway on this mass-spam-cleanup. Finish that mass-cleanup sometime this week. ;) And, you know, post about all further progress and finishing of everything else I hope to finish this year. :)

Funnily enough, I had about 7 long interruptions trying to finish this post.

]]> http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/a-compromise/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2009/01/01/a-compromise/ The coming year http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/498292148/ http://25centlife.com/2008/12/29/the-coming-year/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:04:16 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/2008/12/29/the-coming-year/ 2009. Get ready.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

]]> http://25centlife.com/2008/12/29/the-coming-year/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2008/12/29/the-coming-year/ Halloween 2008 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/438407971/ http://25centlife.com/2008/10/31/halloween-2008/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:19:20 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/2008/10/31/halloween-2008/ This year, I’m a corporate zombie! Oooh original.

Except I look more living than last year’s zombie costume…

ZOMBIE!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

]]> http://25centlife.com/2008/10/31/halloween-2008/feed/ http://25centlife.com/2008/10/31/halloween-2008/ inspiration 6 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/25centlife/~3/425226384/ http://25centlife.com/2008/10/19/inspiration-6/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:27:59 +0000 Corinne http://25centlife.com/2008/10/19/inspiration-6/ Silence is a text easy to misread. ~ A.A. Attanasio

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. ~ Oscar Wilde

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