(*Special thanks to Grocery Outlet for helping feed my shopping addiction and sponsoring today’s chat!) I am all about frugal shopping. Whether it’s staying under a $100 budget at the holidays or baking cupcakes for a get together, I always start out at the discount […]
So, for as long as I can remember, every year I say I am going to attend The Sound of Music sing along at The Hollywood Bowl. Then? Every Summer flies past me and I do not attend. Luckily, when I sighed last season and […]
Goodbye 2015, helloooo 2016! 2015 was an incredible year for me, both personally & professionally, especially here on Along Comes Mary. While I have a goals post, as well as my Word of the Year post coming shortly, how about a glimpse at my year […]
While many of my passions have developed over the years for me, something that has ALWAYS been in my life is my love for movies & film. We had countless videos in my house growing up. My Grandma was the Queen of the Columbia House […]
I have long-awaited attending a “Con”: Comic-Con, Wonder Con, you get my idea. Translation: a nerds galore weekend filled with costumes, dudes proudly wearing a lanyard decked out with pins, and being able to eavesdrop on a conversation I may not fully understand but still […]
Along with getting 5 feet from Julie Andrews, Betty White and being in close vicinity of Anne Rice and The Mystery Machine (oh, yeah!) at the Festival of Books on the USC campus this past weekend, I must say the highlight for me was a […]
2009 marked real changes in my life; the biggest being I moved out of my parents from Solvang, CA, down to sunny SoCal in the Fall. But, prior to that, in Spring of that year, I was down here visiting my Grandma & attended my […]
