1.) Always dress for the Occasion… Even Husband’s coffee mug was ready for inauguration day.

2.) Even dudes (as Laurie March would say) love Ikea. I would pay astronomical amounts of money to go back in time and tape Dad’s first experience with the Swedish super store. It was pretty epoch.

3.) Sometimes a Southern girl just *needs* Cracker Barrel.

4.) Husband knows a lot of 90’s music that I apparently missed during my sheltered childhood including an inordinate amount of Ace of Base and some Shoop song? Trust me, no one is more surprised by this than me!

5.) It really is worth it to actually *do* one’s hair. My friend Liz is my hair hero, but I’m getting better & better with my hot rollers so Watch Out, World!