I just told Mike that he is going to build this for me in our dream home…he laughed in my face. Clearly he has no idea of what is realllly important in a home. I will continue to push this idea until I win. I have a good ten years to break him into submission […] Continue reading →

Since I finished The Samurai’s Garden which was supposed to be my book for the week, I have started this one and am hoping to finish it by the end of the week for another review for you guys. I know that I am a little behind the times on this one since it has already been made into a movie, but I had heard that it was a great book so I am excited to see how it pans out. I’ll keep you guys posted! […] Continue reading →

This is an AWESOME really easy recipe which is great to make for dinner if you are looking for something relatively light and o shall we say…haven’t had power to light up your stove in three days. Just saying. You will need a grill though…that is if you have no stove, or even if you do have a stove, I still think that this would be better on the grill. Anyways here is the recipe. Ingredients: 1 eggplant sliced thin, 3 large tomatoes sliced thick, 1 large ball of fresh […] Continue reading →

In my three days so far of no power from Hurricane Irene I was able to read this book which is a really quick read and was a very sweet story. The Samurai’s Garden takes place during the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s and follows a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. There he is taken care of by the family gardener who is described as a samurai […] Continue reading →

Hi everyone! So sorry for being MIA the past few days but Irene kind of through a wrench in my plans for the weekend/this week so far. Since I live near the water we always get hit hard by hurricanes and to be honest Irene was a bit of a baby if you ask me, we got barely any rain in my area but we sure did get some wind. Our power did go out at 8am on Sunday though so during the day on Sunday my Dad and I decided to check our boredom at the door and brave [...] […] Continue reading →