Quick and Easy Meals

These are the faithful Haffly-household menu stand-bys. That is, when there aren’t leftovers for lunch or I’ve worked a long hard day and don’t feel like cooking “real” food (i.e., a main dish and two side dishes), this is what we often end up eating, with fresh vegetables or fruit on the side. Quick Quesadillas [...]

A catch-up week

Time for my week update again.

Online pedometer

Thanks to a tip from PenguinGirl, I am now in-the-know about Gmaps Pedometer, a neat application that uses Google Maps to help you get your walking/running mileage. I wish I had known about this a year ago when I was training for a half marathon before I biked around town, stopping at corners to jot [...]

Free online metronome

I’ve already shelled out a lot of money for my harp lessons (including lessons, harp rental, replacement strings, music books, and a chromatic tuner) but now I need a metronome, because the “real” songs that I’m playing now actually have tempos to follow. So I was excited to find a free online metronome (there are [...]

Adventures in Transparency

Or, There’s a lot I still don’t know. Or, There are no stupid questions, but lots of ignorant designers. I’ve been working on web photo gallery templates like a madwoman and wanted to have an effect where the photo thumbnails are dim until you hover over them. There were other things about the specific layout [...]

Menu planning

I’ve tried different methods for deciding what to cook: Single-hood college years: No plan. Run out and buy what I decide to make on the spur of the moment or eat what I already had around. Result: Lots of trips to the store and rather unhealthy choices like ramen and boxed mac-n-cheese. (I’m a chicken-flavored [...]

Harp adventures

I’ve wanted to learn the harp since I was 13 years old, but never knew how to go about starting. About a year ago, there was a harpist performing in our local farmer’s market, but I was too shy to go up and ask how one could go about learning to play the harp. Several [...]

Two weeks into my organizer

I’ve been using my new organizer for two weeks. I still love it! But here are some changes I’ve made and additional thoughts that I’ve had after using it for two weeks. (These thoughts may not make sense unless you’ve read my previous posts.)

If only it were easier…

More thoughts on creativity.

For some reason I feel pressure to come up with a creative blog title. It would be appropriate since this post contains more thoughts about creativity, but I can’t come up with one. Feel free to come up with your own and post it as a comment!  Yesterday, a few new thoughts came out about this whole creativity business…