It's been a rough week over here at Casa Staring. First, I went away on a wee trip to NYC with my mom for educational purposes (we studied shopping, bargain-hunting and how to ride the subway without ending up in Jersey). Then, while I was away, DH...

In case you weren't aware, I love contests. Not just the "win a car with a box top from your Rice Krispies package" kind of contests (though I enter those ones, too). My ongoing love/hate relationship is with novel-writing contests, namely because...

Wow, it's October. The month of cool days, leaves crunching underfoot and goblins knocking at my door. Gotta love the goblins, especially when they expect treats without wearing a costume. ;) And, as a total slave to my to-do list, I need to check in...

Normally I don't do book reviews on this blog, simply because there are enough book-reviewing sites out there. And I'm lazy. ;) But after being nagged incessantly to finally read Breaking Dawn, the last book in the Twilight series, I felt I had to say...

Or at least that's what I keep trying to tell myself as I weed through my closets and bookshelves. ;) Yes, I'm still on the clutter-busting bandwagon. Even more so since I've discovered what a stress-reducing effect it has when I'm in relatively...