This week in Minnesota happens to be a bit of a cold spell (sixties mostly), which means I’m pretty comfortable to sit out on our patio. Last week, however, we had a few days up in the 90s, whi...
Last weekend marked a family member’s birthday party, and for the occasion I offered to make a cake for the party. A cake I’ve never attempted before, the tres leches cake. Well, to be pr...
Here we are: another installment of “The Best of Madrid” by Meri. Also known as “Meri goes Mad for Madrid.” We started off with this post last week, and here are the following...
As mentioned last Saturday in my “Satur-dates” blog, man-go-round and I decided to try out Mango Thai for a dinner date. What I hadn’t anticipated when I wrote about our plans, thou...
For the past month or so I’ve been having obnoxious and persistent allergies and eye inflammation, and until last week had been rocking my sexy librarian glasses instead of my usual daytime con...
I hope you all had a good one! What did you stop to savor this Sunday? Meri
On the agenda for this beautiful sunny Saturday were a few things: Garage sale Library Surdyk’s (the best liquor/ cheese/ gourmet shop in town, in my opinion) Thai food date At the garage sale ...
A friend and coworker of mine just got back from a tour through Spain and France. As soon as I got over the hurdle of my raging jealousy, I started to reminisce about my semester studying in Madrid. ...
Our city is in the middle of a project to construct/expand our light rail system to extend the routes to go from downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis. In the spirit of the planet’s well-be...
Today at work I was chatting with my yogi-extraordinnaire co-worker, and (fresh from a weekend yoga conference) she was describing the concept of kosha. I don’t feel comfortable describing the ...
To all of the new moms, veteran moms, soon-to-be moms, and every other type of mom out there… Happy Mother’s Day! Meri
Hey guys, and Happy Saturday! This weekend is going even faster than last week went, somehow. I’m right in the whirlwind of a flurry of fun and relaxing weekend activities, but I thought it wou...
For today’s Travelin’ Thursday post, I want to take you on a journey with me. A journey through my memory, through my mind, through San Francisco. A journey from one incredible bridge to ...
Source: visualnews.com via Meredith on Pinterest I found this infographic on Pinterest a couple of days ago. As it says in the fine print, the top 10 were chosen by amount of books printed and sold. ...
After tiring of hearing all of the buzz and promos surrounding HBO’s new show Girls, (“it’s the new Sex and the City for 20-somethings” as an example), I harrassed man-go-roun...
I’ve been absent for a few days, attending a funeral out of town and trying to beat off this hideous virus I’m carrying (which also seems to be plaguing man-go-round and my Dad at this po...
Today was sunny, warm, and beautiful. On the way home from work I felt completely inundated by springtime, and despite my sore throat and sort of woozy feeling (I’m now sucking down Vit C, Echi...
The other day I entered the kitchen to see a few of man-go-round’s plums dangerously nearing mush. I didn’t particularly feel like eating three plums in order to save them, but I did vent...
Today I really wanted to take a stroll through the neighborhood after work, photographing all of the tulips and spring blooms. But alas, I decided to save my poor allergy-ridden eyeballs and spend th...
I discovered this finger knitting tutorial on Pinterest, and it reminded of my childhood pastime (children of the 80s and 90s will probably recall the neon stretchy bands used for finger knitting bac...
Tonight I met up with some lovely pals for Happy Hour. As it so happened, it was Dining Out for Life tonight, and so some of the profits from the restaurant we went to, Roat Osha, will go to The Aliv...
I haven’t mentioned it in awhile, but man-go-round and I are about a third of the way into our 2012 “Project,” in which we are tackling 12 different areas of life and trying to do a...
Yep, it’s been just “one of those days,” around Meri-goes-round. Some times of year, despite being acutely aware of all of the wonderful blessings in my life, I still can’t sh...
Yep, you guessed it. (Okay, no one probably bothered to guess the title, but that’s just how I roll). What am I saying y’all are guessing? Another camera adventure/ experiment, of course!...
This afternoon, I spent a couple of lazy hours staring out the window at the rain, flipping through City Pages’ ”Best of Twin Cities” issue, and Netflixing a movie I had heard of fo...
After spending much of our “travel budget” on a brand new camera, we haven’t planned many trips lately. Therefore, for this Travelin’ Thursday I thought I’d show you a f...
For Wordy Wednesday last week, I shared with you guys some of the recent books I’ve been reading, and in lieu of the oh so wordy typical book review, I decided to make little tag clouds of key ...
As promised, today I will share the highlights of Sunday’s baby shower for my dear sister (who happens to be pregnant with the first boy in the family- hence the “Little Man” fixati...
Yesterday I showed you the outer wrappings of my sister’s first grouping of baby shower presents. Tomorrow I’ll show you the highlights (thanks to my talented sisters and mother) of our &...
This afternoon and evening look to be a parade through town of library-ing, grocery shopping, liquor store, cash mobbing, photo shooting, and gas purchasing. Thus, I wanted to check in with a quick p...
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