February 28th, 2010

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Feeling sort of quiet today, and thought these words and images were much more eloquent than what I’d have

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February 26th, 2010

Empire State of Mind

If you’re a lady who blogs, I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of Blog Her, the sort of “umbrella” of cool stuff that’s happening for women in the Blogosphere.  For the past few years, my Twitter and blogroll has blown up during conference weekends, with all the awesomeness that happens during the conference. 

I REALLY wanted to go, but I had committed to attending  Bloggers In Sin City and The

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February 25th, 2010

Saboteurs!

So, normally I save this stuff for my weight loss blog, but I just have to talk about the gym for a minute.  It pains me to say this, but I think I am slowly turning into a gym person.  I KNOW.  No one is more surprised by this than I am.  Here’s what tipped me off: I forgot to set my alarm on Tuesday morning but at 4:35 my

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February 24th, 2010

All by myself…

Maybe this makes me a weirdo, but honestly, I enjoy doing things by myself.  I have absolutely no qualms about running errands alone, seeing movies alone and on occasion, dining alone.  Typically, when I eat by myself, I get a few sympathetic glances, but I seriously don’t care.  I bring a book or papers to grade to something to somewhat occupy my time and I’m good to go.

Yesterday, I

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February 23rd, 2010

We’ll all float on…

Last week, I was thrust into a situation with some people who I’ve allowed to make me feel terrible about myself, simply because they don’t really understand me (nor I them!), and have shown some rather judgmental, awful behavior in the past.  I sat there, having had no prior warning that they’d be at said event, and trembled inside.  I checked my cell phone incessantly, clammed up in the most casual

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February 22nd, 2010

Elsewhere…

Just wanted to drop in and let you know I can be found in not one, not two, but THREE  other places today:

I had a pretty awesome small victory in my weight loss journey this weekend—you can read all about that here. Awhile back, I mentioned wanting to find a signature drink, and goodness, I found it!  I wrote about it over at my other home, Style Lush.  Come say

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February 22nd, 2010

Weekend Highlights

Well, it’s Monday again, and I can’t believe it.  It seems like the weekends just fly by!  Here are a few highlights from my weekend:

A delicious Thai dinner on Friday night.  I’ve always taken a very firm “anti-curry” stance, preferring pad se ew or pad thai, but I tried a bit of yellow curry, and man…I might be a convert.  It was amazing. Going grocery shopping at the crack

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February 19th, 2010

Tee-vee

Once upon a time, I was a TV-less person.  I KNOW.  I tried really hard not to be douchey about it.  We’ve all met those people who you can totally feel are judging you with their TV-less eyes when you mention a show, and they say something like, “Ohhh, yeahhhh…I don’t really watch TV.”  And then they rant on about the brain rotting and NPR

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February 18th, 2010

Making sure she gets the memo…

Dear Woman Upstairs,

Hi there!  We’ve met once—I greeted you outside when you were coming home and I was leaving.  I didn’t stay to talk to you for too long, mostly because I wasn’t sure how long I could be nice to you without COMPLETELY LOSING IT about the volume at which you live your life.  The funny thing about apartments is that the people below you can actually hear

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February 17th, 2010

What’s-on-my-mind Wednesday…

So many of you have left kind and supportive comments about my potential layoff.  I still don’t know anything.  There was a pretty significant school board meeting recently, but no one has been notified.  Legally, I have to be informed by March 12 if there’s a chance that I won’t have a contract next year…and I should know by April.  Until then?  Well, we’ll see.  I’ve been

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