Have You Ever Heard of Bloglovin'?

I am trying to streamline my life a little bit. This weekend I worked on getting my email inbox to a manageable size. I worked on it one day last weekend and quite a bit this past holiday weekend. I started with an unbelievable 5012 emails in my inbox, and managed to get it down to just over 1100 emails. It is obviously still a work in progress, but I'm super pleased with what I accomplished so far.

One thing that I did that will help my inbox from getting so bloated again, is to conglomerate all of my blog subscriptions into one email. I subscribed to all of my favourite blogs on Bloglovin' and now I get just one email with a list of all the new posts from my favourite blogs. Click here if you would like to follow my blog with Bloglovin'. Bloglovin' is also very helpful in that, every time you follow a blog, it will send you an email with some suggestions of similar blogs you might want to follow.

Read ALL the blogs!

I used to enjoy Garfield and Archie as a kid. As an adult, I am not a big reader of comics. About once every year or two, when I pick up a paper I will read the comics, but I don't really get much out of it. I haven't really seen much in graphic novels or the like. I am definitely a visual person, but in the case of comics, it seems to go to slow for me, and I get bored. Well, I'm here to tell ya that I found some "comics" that I love, and they are found on two blogs. My oldest daughter and I spent some time over the weekend looking at these blogs and I would love to share my favourite entries with you.


Disclaimer: One thing I don't enjoy about these blogs is that they have some profanity. The blogs are funny enough that I am willing to suffer through it for the laugh, but sadly, the profanity sometimes ruins the joke (for me anyway), because I am too busy making a face, like the one you have when you eat a lemon, to remember what I was reading about.


Blog: Hyperbole and a Half


post: dog


post: The Party


post: The A lot is Better Than you at Everything


Blog: Parenting. Illustrated with Crappy Pictures


I think you will get the most out of this blog if you have kids, but if you don't have any, it will still be amusing (my 17 year old daughter loves it).


post: I did these things as a kid (but my kids won't)


post: While mama was in the bathroom - episode 1
I love it when people are brutally honest about things that people never talk about. I guess that pretty much sums up why this blog is funny. She is not afraid to talk about ANYTHING!


post: public toilets vs. newly potty trained girls and boys


Enjoy! Remember laughter is the best medicine (says the girl who is just getting over her first cold in almost 2 years and spent good time in the last four days reading these blogs to get the biggest dose of "medicine" possible).

The Other Blog

I must confess - I have another blog. I don't suppose that it makes any difference that since I have been blogging elsewhere, I have also been blogging more here? Maybe you will visit me at both?

Journal of a Wannabe Foodie

What's in a Name?

Picking the name for a blog proved to be quite stressful for me. How can you sum up what your entire blog will be about or even maybe who *you* are in just a few choice words? Well, I couldn’t do it. The name of this blog is just a nifty name that I finally settled upon, and it may turn out that it has nothing to do with who I am or what this blog is about.
My favourite word lately has been autodidact (my previous favourite word was eclectic, meaning selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas). The definition of autodidact is a self-taught person. I believe I first encountered this word on my favorite blog: Mental Multivitamin. Although autodidact may describe me, and eclectic may describe my homeschooling stlye, and even though those two things are a big part of my life, it does not sum up my whole being.
...and this blog, I want it to be about whatever comes to mind that I feel like sharing. I may want to share some thoughts about being frugal, a day in the life of my homeschooling family, a review of a book I think is super (whether for the kids or me), some learning tips, some crazy thing that happened, and maybe an ah-ha moment or two.
Welcome to Adventures of an Autodidact!