February 2012
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January 2012
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Lovely Day
This morning as I was playing princess with my daughter upstairs in the playroom, Lovely Day by Bill Withers came on my ipod. I have to say my fondness for this song is the result of its use in 127 Hours. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll agree the placement of this song at that particular time in the film is ironic. (You can find the clip on youtube.) If you haven’t seen the...
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skin deep
There’s a great scene in the John Ritter movie Skin Deep where he is talking to his psychologist about why he makes the choices he makes. Basically he’s a womanizer and keeps making the same mistake over and over again. His psychologist tells him the story of the scorpion and the frog. I think about this scene often when trying to figure out someone’s behavior. When I’ve...
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pegative and nositive
There are always negative people in your life. I’m not talking about the people who ooze cup half empty. We usually figure out pretty quickly that those types of people are just not happy. They’ve lost the ability to enjoy life and find comfort in shooting down any new opportunity before it crops up. Those people we can avoid or at least learn to tolerate and not take their...
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Making A Mess
I love it when you wake up to a mess that you’ve made. Not intentionally of course, but nonetheless it’s there. You didn’t handle a situation in the best manner or maybe you were acting out in a passive aggressive way and it caught up to you. And now you’re faced with how to clean it up without looking like the worst person on the face of the earth. I seem to find myself in...
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Maybe I Shouldn't Have a Computer....
So this summer, the hard drive on my mac book went. The computer is only a few years old, but I was told by the apple clerk that since it’s a spinning disc, it can really go at any time. I wasn’t too happy about that, but dished out the $200 to fix it anyway. I figured that my 2 year old had probably stepped on it. I had seen her do it before on one of her journeys across the kitchen...
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And Then There Was One...pt. 2
What I don’t want to do is tell you all the painful details of every treatment my sister received over the next 5 years. The radiation, the chemo, the stem cell transplant, the various hospitals and doctors and opinions, the trips to Canada for experimental medicines in hopes that they would work where the other “medicines” failed. I cannot even imagine what life became for my...
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Marlin: I promised I’d never let anything happen to him. Dory: Hmm. That’s a funny thing to promise. Marlin: What? Dory: Well, you can’t never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him. Not much fun for little Harpo.
-Finding Nemo
One of the best quotes from a kids movie ever!
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And Then There Was One...pt. 1
Sometimes there’s an event that happens in your life that completely changes who you are. It can make you a better person or it can break you. Sometimes that event does both but it’s hard to see the better person you’ve become with all those pieces around you. Friedrich Nietzsche said “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” He should have added the word...
The First Time Only Happens Once
This isn’t what you think. I’m talking about blogging for the first time. You can’t take it back once it’s out there. People will judge you on this initial blog and decide whether or not you are worth visiting on a daily basis. I think I’m worth visiting, but I guess that endorsement is about as good as one from your mom.
So what will I write on my blog? Whatever...
