A Few of My Favorite Things...

It's just fabulous when you're so comfortable with another person that you can hang out for hours doing stupid things like wearing metal bowls like helmets, hammering on them, and experimenting to see if you can feel the vibrations in your toes... My newly wedded friends and I spent a recent afternoon doing just this. I picked up this singing bowl in India, and tinkered around with it a lot at first, but now seldom does it get used unless we have hardy company - willing to freely embarrass themselves in front of not only my eyes, but in front of you all as well! Unfortunately, Amelia is not levitating in this shot, nor is she truly seven feet tall. Believe it or not, she's standing on a coffee table... the bowl isn't quite that good.

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I've been sleeping like a rock for the past few weeks, and I only partially attribute it to catching up on post-election missed sleep. The other key contributing factor has been this amazing pillow. I first learned about Pacific Coast when staying at a Marriott hotel years ago, having the most contented sleep, and eagerly digging through a series of pillow cases to identify the tag and pillow brand so I could get one myself. When visiting the website, I was initially deterred by how expensive they were. They range from 40 to hundreds of dollars depending on how many "chambers" you need in your pillow. But they have a package deal for the Down Surround pillows and my parents bought us these for my birthday this year. I am trying to get better about assessing purchase value based on how often I will use something, and this may be the best investment since I bought my SLR. It's like my own personal little cloud.

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It was Halloween this weekend, and neighborhoods around Boston celebrated not only the spooky holiday, but also their enthusiasm surrounding the upcoming election. In fact, we have been so inundated with information, sound bytes, advertising, and the Situation Room that it's pretty hard not to connect the election with just about everything else in our lives right now. Who knew there would come a day when I could watch three hours of CNN in a sitting? For the past week, I've woken up from dreams about the candidates and voting day scenarios. We are at the height of a precarious decision that could trigger impressive change. And I for one will likely be sleeping lightly 'till Tuesday night!

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