making a case for capitalization (pun totally intended)

since the beginning of this blog i have been only using lower-case letters.  it's a style that i like.  however, i'm finding it to be increasingly harder to write my thoughts while trying to keep everything lower-case.

most electronic devices these days automatically shift to uppercase after you type a period.  this makes it quite annoying to type and interrupts my rambling.

so all of the posts after this one will be typed in sentence case like most normal people.  it's terribly disappointing i know, but it'll be easier for me.  and it is after all, my blog.

dinner blog revival

i also resurrected by dinner blog.  i will post randomly on this blog whenever i make something i deem blog worthy.  i know all 3 of you that read my blog are so excited by my renewed interest!

amazing deals!

I'm Saving Now

or at least i think they are amazing.  at any rate, i will be posting them under a revived blog called "I'm Saving Now"!  there is a link on the top right of my website.

check it out, NOW!

dinners in 2011

one thing i would like to be better about this year is making dinner for my family. in 2010, for most of the year anyway, i was pregnant and making dinner was the last thing i wanted to do most nights. the kids usually ended up with something simple to prepare - like from can to microwave to bowl, and most of the time it was something that they themselves could whip up and eat with a little help from either nathan or myself. nathan and i ate whatever we could scrounge up and sounded good. the menu from 2010 looked something like this:

• chef boyardee
• spaghetti o's
• frozen pizza
• cheese quesadilla
• sandwiches
• hot dogs
• mac-n-cheese
• fast food
• take-out

while i do think that at least jared benefited from learning to make mac-n-cheese by himself (he won't starve on his mission now as long as he can get his hands on a couple boxes of the stuff), i know that eating dinner as a family is very important. so this year, i am going to do better. to keep myself somewhat in line, i am going to keep track of my dinners on my blog.

*note - this is really for my benefit only, but if you want to see what i have made, you can follow along under the "dinners in 2011" page on the right side bar.

blog stalking

last night, while trying to fall asleep, i wondered how many people actually look at or really care about my blog. so i decided to post a guest book blog where i want the people who have ever frequented my blog to sign in as a comment with your name.

now, if you are one of those people that has never met me and you are afraid to say you have visited, it is okay. i completely believe in blog stalking.

to prove my point, i have a friend on my list "brad and malia call" and under her friends is "erica". now i have never met erica, nor will i probably ever meet her, but at least once a week i read her blog. she is hilarious.

so you know what to do, post a comment with your name and, if you want, your blog address.

as far as i know only 4 people read this blog, so if i only get 4 comments, that is 4 more than i probably deserve.