I have been going through several trying things personally, and have needed some of my own motivation.  Well, I’m back and plan on updating the blog regularly and bringing you lots of helpful ideas and motivation.

The blog is official now – I have completed the incorporation of this blog, so please welcome Lopaul Industries, LLC to life!  I want this to be more than a casual hobby, so I committed to making it a business and have begun investing in it and treating it as a business entity.

Look for new and current posts.  I have a notebook full of ideas and a number of draft posts already in progress.  I also have exciting ideas about how I can help my readers with motivation and inspiration.  Please stay tuned as I kick this thing into high gear and start cranking things out.

I have a pretty long commute to work and I have a history of letting the drive and bad drivers get me stressed.  Over the years I have figured out a few things to help me relax and de-stress – and even have it be useful time instead of a drain.  Read the rest of this entry »

I had been contemplating buying a rice cooker for a while and researched many different units available.  Here I’ll tell you what I ended up getting, how I’m using it, and why I love it.

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I wrote a post a while back about keeping track of your thoughts and keeping track. I figured I would follow it up with a few more ideas.
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One of my sons and I are sensitive to wheat, so we have tried to eat more wheat and gluten free foods. In our house, pasta is a staple so not having pasta available as an option quickly became a problem. We tried a number of different wheat free pastas and found that some are terrible and some do a very good job resembling pasta. To hopefully save you some trial and error yourself, I give you my findings after much “error”.

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Well today was not a healthy food day, but we had fun. We spent the day at the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville which is a 2.5 hour drive from Austin. The gluten-free went out the window for the day, and we enjoyed fried mushrooms, fried cheese sticks, macaroni and cheese, mini donuts (beignet in faire-speak), and even fried Snickers bars! Mmm, so good it is hard to resist.

I’m writing this post using the iPhone Wordpress app which seems pretty good at first glance. I may do a future post about it once I’ve had some tome using it.