Posted on December 10, 2009 by LJ Earnest
My family loves strawberry jam. Over every other type of jam. And jam is expensive, considering the quantities we go through. A few years ago I decided to make my own jam. My mother used to can veggies and meat, and I had experience helping her. She also used to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 9, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I love cookies. And especially holiday cookies, because there is something about the holidays that makes it OK to eat many different types of cookies. But baking lots of different holiday cookies can be a drag. Here are the ways I simplify holiday [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 8, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Tuesdays are open loop at SimpleProductivity blog. Life’s A Stitch, knitting blog I peruse (subtitled: “a blog about life and its antidote: knitting”), ran an article about what you would tell your 14-year-old self at “The collective wisdom”. It’s an intriguing concept. I think the two things I would have [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 7, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. One of my biggest needs of on-the-go information is passwords. When I stopped carrying my PDA, pretty much the only thing I used on it was the password safe. I used YAPS on my PDA for years, and had a desktop viewer that [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 4, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. I drink iced tea at home. Lots of it. Both decaf and high-test. But having two pitchers in the refrigerator was starting to become a nuisance. I saw this idea on the internet (sorry, have no idea where!) using a cold-brew method. I [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Tonight I was completely spun up, running around on a hamster wheel. Since finishing NaNoWriMo last Sunday, I have been doing a condiment week. I’ve been playing catchup. A busy week that seems to have no end, task lists that keep growing, having to fight a few battles that were [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 3, 2009 by LJ Earnest
We don’t get much freezing precipitation here in southern Virginia, but when we do, the entire area comes to a screeching halt because we’re not prepared to deal with it. The last ice storm backed everything up so badly it took me three hours to go 10 miles on a [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on December 2, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. This article is was originally published at LauraEarnest.com. There are days when we are all crazy-busy. You know the feeling. You are working at a frantic pace, and people keep piling more emergencies on top of you. This article will teach you a [...]
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