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    Eggs!

    Finally! Our precious chickens started laying eggs. Well, one of them has. We’re not sure whether it’s Clem or Hop Sing. We’ve had them for five months, and we have waited for this day with bated breath.

    If any of you are thinking about getting chickens for eggs and pets, I highly recommend it! I didn’t think I would like them as much as I do. I am seriously attached to them.

    Whenever we open the door, they come running toward us (hoping to get some grapefruit). They are silky soft, and they try to come in our house whenever the weather is nice enough to leave the back door … Read More

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    Tracking My Menstrual Cycle


    I’ve been trying to diligently track my menstrual cycle ever since I skimmed Taking Charge of Your Fertility last year. For some reason, however, I have yet to be very successful with it. Something always seems to get in the way: waking up at inconsistent times, traveling and changing time zones, getting bored in the middle of my really long cycles, using a thermometer that only went to the tenths place and learning that I should get one that goes all the way to the hundredths, trying to use a tracking system that is too complicated–blah, blah, blah.

    Well, it’s time to get serious with my tracking because a) I’m … Read More

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    Dreaming Big: The Course

    If you decide to enroll in a Mondo Beyondo course, please click through from my website! I will earn $20 that will go straight into my Dreaming Savings Account (sorry for the shameless self-promotion!)

    Last month, I enrolled in Mondo Beyondo, an online course about dreaming big. Unfortunately, a few things conspired to make my experience less than fruitful:

    1. I should have waited until my calendar cleared a bit before tackling a new and ambitious undertaking (in Mondo Beyondo speak, we call this “making a clearing.”). March was frenetic and frazzled. I traveled four times and had something on my calendar every single day except Tuesday, March 23.
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