Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Dec 12, 2009, 11:00 am
iMac geekage from my favorite 5 and 6 year olds. :) My little brothers have their first computer, which I’m happy to report is an iMac. I spent Thursday evening setting it up for them and inst...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Dec 12, 2009, 1:32 am
Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister My rating: 4 of 5 stars Yeah, yeah. Okay. The last two books in the series lessened my irritation with the second book in this (so far) four book series. This is sti...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Dec 8, 2009, 6:35 pm
Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister My rating: 2 of 5 stars Meh. Okay, now I think I’ve figured out this author’s formula, and it’s not great… or at least it’s not great whe...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Dec 7, 2009, 6:38 am
You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a quick brain candy read (read it in a few hours’ time) that was mostly successful at being funny and mostly successful at being...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 29, 2009, 3:10 pm
Holy crap on toast, I have never waited this long to let an enormous quantity of words to build up in order for me to complete Nanowrimo. I’m not even sure that last sentence made sense… ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 23, 2009, 10:11 am
Jim and I are buying a house! We should be closing on this house in North Canton in mid to late December and we are really excited. :) We signed a purchase agreement over a week ago, and all the ban...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 21, 2009, 6:32 pm
Getting things done… or at rather NOT done. Fun was had though! :) (I'm also giving Posterous another chance. We'll see if this actually posts.) Posted via email from brandice’...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 21, 2009, 1:32 pm
Getting things done… or at rather NOT done. Fun was had though! :) (I'm also giving Posterous another chance. We'll see if this actually posts.) Posted via email from brandice’...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 21, 2009, 12:32 pm
Getting things done… or at rather NOT done. Fun was had though! :) (I'm also giving Posterous another chance. We'll see if this actually posts.) Posted via email from brandice’...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 21, 2009, 11:52 am
Getting things done… or at rather NOT done. Fun was had though! :) (I'm also giving Posterous another chance. We'll see if this actually posts.) Posted via email from brandice’...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 16, 2009, 10:00 am
Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: This place made from our love for that emptiness! Yet somehow comes emptiness, this existence goes. Praise to that happening, over a...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 15, 2009, 10:00 am
Holy smokes, November is always such a rush! Nanowrimo is plugging along with the typical ups and downs that I have every year (writing a bazillion words one day, taking a day and ending up behind ag...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 14, 2009, 12:41 pm
I’m sitting at Starbucks, and I should be writing my Nanowrimo novel, but instead I’ve spent the past hour getting caught up on all of you, your blog posts and Facebook updates and comment...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 8, 2009, 6:32 pm
A testament to how stubborn my husband and I are: B: Want to watch Fringe? J: Sure. B: Okay, it’s on the dvr in the other room. J: Okay, let’s go. *I become distracted by a commercial...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 2, 2009, 4:52 pm
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was overwhelming at times in its hopeless portrayal of two women in Afghanistan whose lives become linked through their ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Nov 1, 2009, 12:36 pm
If you’re going to be one of those people that complains about all the Nanowrimo talk during November… shoo. Go ‘way. Not interested. It’s what I do each year, and it’s A...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 31, 2009, 2:49 am
This is what happens when I have an iPhone 3G-S and someone to film me while I mock an angry, irrationally ranting customer at Borders. No clue when Dianah and I filmed this… Just found it on ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 30, 2009, 9:49 pm
This is what happens when I have an iPhone 3G-S and someone to film me while I mock an angry, irrationally ranting customer at Borders. No clue when Dianah and I filmed this… Just found it on ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 30, 2009, 8:49 pm
This is what happens when I have an iPhone 3G-S and someone to film me while I mock an angry, irrationally ranting customer at Borders. No clue when Dianah and I filmed this… Just found it on ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 30, 2009, 8:19 pm
This is what happens when I have an iPhone 3G-S and someone to film me while I mock an angry, irrationally ranting customer at Borders. No clue when Dianah and I filmed this… Just found it on ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 30, 2009, 8:09 pm
This is what happens when I have an iPhone 3G-S and someone to film me while I mock an angry, irrationally ranting customer at Borders. No clue when Dianah and I filmed this… Just found it on ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 30, 2009, 8:03 pm
This is what happens when I have an iPhone 3G-S and someone to film me while I mock an angry, irrationally ranting customer at Borders. No clue when Dianah and I filmed this… Just found it on ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 27, 2009, 3:28 pm
Man oh man, has life been busy. Those of you friended up on the LiveJournal will see that this is the 4th wordy post today. I have two days off mid-week from work, and it feels like I finally have t...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 13, 2009, 10:09 am
Ironically timed journaling prompt: “How do you deal with your anger?“ Boy oh boy, am I ever quick to anger at times. I think one of my biggest struggles is a temper that is easily trig...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 12, 2009, 9:00 am
“I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not. I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there. I entered the mountain cave of Hi...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 11, 2009, 1:00 pm
I’m kind of in love with my nephew, so I have a tendency to take a ton of pics of him when he’s in town with my sis. It really helped on this particular weekend back in October because it...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 10, 2009, 8:36 pm
Went with the family to a Clippers game in September and took a few shots (not too many, since this was the day I fell down a flight of stairs and busted my tailbone… I was mostly wandering arou...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Oct 4, 2009, 2:21 pm
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I really wanted to give this book four stars, but I just couldn’t do it. This is the first book I’ve listened to as an audiobook an...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 20, 2009, 10:00 am
Wow. Puppies are REALLY hard to photograph… those suckers just do NOT hold still long enough for a clear shot. Definitely a challenge. Click on Sadie below for some shots I took of my mother-i...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 19, 2009, 2:00 pm
A few weeks ago (prior to busting my tailbone and becoming useless on a bicycle), Jim and I ventured out to the Towpath in Massillon and took a quick bike ride to feel out whether I’d like to st...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 19, 2009, 9:48 am
I don’t write a lot about internet etiquette anymore (excluding the occasional snarky comment on Twitter) because I’ve learned to simply eliminate offenders from my viewpoint and move on t...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 12, 2009, 9:45 am
Local by Brian Wood My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great 12-issues comic series that is now available in one hardbound volume. It’s a very quick read and paints the story of a girl named M...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 8, 2009, 9:00 am
This interview with Doctor Anonymous was a WONDERFUL experience and allowed me to really explain a lot about my process, my creative journey, and how I got to this point in the self-pubishing process....
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 7, 2009, 12:17 pm
Don’t randomly spam me on LinkedIn when I’m crankily hopped up on Vicodin for my bruised tailbone. Let this be a lesson to you all. ;) (Click to view full image) *happy sigh* I love an...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Sep 3, 2009, 8:24 pm
Come down to the First Friday festivities on September 4th and I will be on the second floor of 2nd April Galerie signing copies of Columbus Groove. It would REALLY mean a lot to see friends and fami...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Aug 30, 2009, 11:10 pm
The Walking Dead Volume 10: What We Become by Robert Kirkman My rating: 5 of 5 stars This volume got me to the point where I’m now reading issues rather than the trades as they come out. I ju...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Aug 30, 2009, 2:26 pm
Invincible Vol. 3: Perfect Strangers by Robert Kirkman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is where this series really starts to get good for me. These are the issues that really got me hooked and now I&#...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Aug 24, 2009, 10:00 am
Still working my way through Wreck This Journal: The liberation continues!! This one was fun, because I got to just tear out this page and leave it at Red Robin for whoever bussed our table last ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Aug 22, 2009, 4:15 pm
I’ve been really busy lately with a fun project, one that I’ve been revising and fiddling around with for close to a decade. I’ve been seriously working on it for a few months now, ...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 29, 2009, 9:09 pm
Here are the pictures from the second big day of the family vacation! :) We went to South Bass island in the Put-In Bay area, rode bikes, had great pizza, drank really good wine and got a few family s...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 24, 2009, 9:00 am
I had an amazing time taking photos at the zoo! The lens I rented from LensProToGo.com was amazing. This is the first full day of the family vacation, and it was a great start to a great week! Or c...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 23, 2009, 1:12 pm
Took some shots of the beautiful sky we had while driving all the way to Toledo on Saturday… great view, and it was a great start to the family vacation. :) Or click: http://www.flickr.com/phot...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 18, 2009, 12:00 pm
I’m going on VACATION! I took a full paid week off of work (something I’ve never had enough vacation given to me to do at any other job… very new and exciting for me), we have famil...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 12, 2009, 4:25 pm
Yesterday, Jim and I went to Classic Park up in Eastlake, Ohio to see The Bob Dylan Show (Bob Dylan in live in concert with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp opening). My mom got us tickets a month o...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 11, 2009, 1:34 pm
I have a few things to say about Mental, a fairly new show on FOX that stars a: “radically unorthodox psychiatrist who becomes Director of Mental Health Services at a Los Angeles hospital where...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 8, 2009, 10:00 am
I don’t know if this is common for other people when they start out in dabbling with photography, but I’ve noticed lately that I notice more… colors, shapes, plants, the sky (I am co...
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Brandice S. posted an article on Brandice.net - Jul 7, 2009, 4:15 pm
WOW… did I ever fall of the wagon. Yesterday, I dragged myself to Curves after work, because I hadn’t been there to work out in so long that they sent me a postcard. (Ouch.) I knew that...
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