A Daily Dose of Daisy
To be, rather than to seem
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I am a huge fan of the plastic see through Starbucks cups. I have like 4 venti sized cups that I have used for a long time. About a year or so ago they came out with a trenta sized cup which is quite a bit bigger. I have never actually ordered a trenta sized [...]

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Right now we are sitting in a Boeing 737 aircraft at about 36,000 feet in the sky. We have a 3 hour direct flight from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Lily, JP and I are going to be spending the next 3 nights at Disneyland and the following 3 nights in Palm Desert. What better [...]

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This morning I was laying in bed when I heard my phone beep at me. It was a text message from my neighbor that said to call her. I called her and she told me that her husband told her that the air conditioning unit(s) on the side of our house are making a high-pitched [...]

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Lily and I went to Barnes & Noble today to buy a few books. Right when we got there she headed off to the kids section to look for a couple chapter books. She knows that when I say she can pick out a book that the young kid books or activity books do not [...]

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I saw this today and I can’t resist sharing!  

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Today I started my first painting in my acrylic painting class. In a perfect world my painting will look almost exactly like the photo that I showed you the other day. I learned how to prepare the canvas and how to draw the guiding lines on our canvas. Can you see it coming to life [...]

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Every once in awhile I see something that really makes me think. A friend of mine snapped this picture and posted it on FB a couple days ago. I figured it was worth sharing. I really like the “take too many pictures” part. You have no idea how many people have said “you take so [...]

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I had my first Acrylic Painting class today. I signed up for this one because again it is something that I know very little about, but want to know more. What I didn’t realize when I signed up for the 6 week class was that I would spend more on supplies than on the actual [...]

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I remember when I was a kid my mom would ask us what kind of birthday cake we wanted. When we were younger the cake usually matched the theme of that birthday. For example look the 6 year old me… notice the cake and the doll that I am holding. I was thinking back and [...]

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At the beginning of 2011 I made a list of things I wanted/needed to accomplish this year. One of the things I didn’t do was get a passport, but there are a few big things I was able to cross off of my list. I did finally get that Texas drivers license that I have [...]