Moving On

Hey everyone! This blog has gotten quite dusty and boring, hasn't it? A couple weeks ago I watched Julie & Julia on a quiet Thursday night. It is a wonderful movie and if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it!

The movie got me thinking... The main plot focuses on a writer who decides to blog her way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking. This is a huge challenge to her, but she sets her mind to it and accomplishes her goal, and learns a lot along the way, not only about cooking, but about herself. And isn't the purpose of blogging to educate and enlighten your readers with experiences and knowledge that you're passionate about? This requires focus and dedication.

I thought about my own blog and how unfocused it is. It has really just become an online journal. While to some it may be interesting, maybe my life stories are entertaining or relatable....But if it's not keeping me excited enough to post regularly, I know there's a problem! So I decided to move on and start a new blog.

The number one rule I think all bloggers should follow is "write about what you know". So what do I know? After thinking for quite some time, the answer became quite clear. I know gluten-free living. We live it every day! It's not something that very many people know about unless they follow the diet or live with someone who follows it.

So I hope you will keep following me at my new blog, The Gluten Free Wife. It's a very exciting new project that I am really passionate about. I will be sharing recipes, travel and dining tips, product recommendations, and anecdotes about living a gluten free life!

Cheers!

Shannon

Back in the Swing of Things

Hello? Anyone there?

I am crawling out from hiding and dusting this blog off, after a whirlwind of a couple weeks. I feel like I have barely had time to breath, let alone muster up the energy to post anything worth reading!

I won't dwell on the fact that the past two weeks of work have been miserable. It is officially the time of year when I long for warm days, cargo shorts and flip flops, and sitting out back until the sun sets around 8:30. Soon, my friends, very soon.

Sean and I have been all but "settling" in to married life. It feels like we've barely seen each other! Work has been nuts for both of us. It has been a relief to walk in the door and be able to have time together (when he's not working a night shift, of course). We had a lovely date night over the weekend that involved a delicious dinner at a new place in town, and buying a new couch! The joys of Bob's, making affordable furniture for us newlywed types. We had a lovely saleslady though. She was quite adorable and told us that we made her day by being happy people. How awesome is that?

I have been working on an invitation suite for a 50th anniversary party, and it's shaping up quite nicely, although I was pushed back a day from not having heat last night. Sean found that our pilot light was out and it wasn't until 10:30 last night that our landlord and his "heating guy" got a broken part replaced and warmth trickled back into the house. Until then we snuggled up on the couch under a pile of blankets and watched Up, which is probably the worst movie to watch when you've had a tumultuous week and are incredibly hormonal. But it is such a good movie, we tortured our souls with it anyways.

Tonight, as Sean is working, I settled in with the determination to finish the invitations (almost there), enjoy a glass of red wine (well deserved, if I do say so myself), and watch Julie & Julia, a film I have been dying to see since I saw the first trailer for it. Well, it was worth the wait. MY only grievance is that I have to return it to the Big Red Box tomorrow. I might have to go out and buy it so I can watch it again. And again. And again.

I loved so many things about the movie, but one thing that is in my mind is the whole idea of blogging. There are certainly blogs out there that post on certain topics regularly, with well written thought and images. And there are blogs for everything. I don't even think of this as worthy of being called a blog half the time. It's more of an online journal. I suppose that ok, as long as I have fun things to say from time to time. I am going to work on developing a blog that is more focused on something that I think is just wonderful, so stay tuned! I need some good content first. But it'll be very exciting, indeed!

So back into the "real world" we've been flung. I eagerly await the delivery of new, comfy brown couch and must go give old, smushy green couch a proper last evening of sitting, wine drinking, and Grey's viewing. It was a good couch (in my family over 15 years!), and it will be missed.

Cheers!