March 2012
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And The Award Goes To....
Just this year, I fell into blogging. I happened to see my sorority sister’s new blog, thehouseoftrue.com and thought it was magical! I had been toying with the idea of writing since I have so many random thoughts…and well, Amithdoyle made it look so fun!! What I didn’t realize at the time was that a blog takes time. Behind the scenes, Amithdoyle works hard to balance a blog, a...
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Sleep
Here’s how mine looked last night.
10pm get into bed. 10:01pm get out of bed to console child. 10:03pm get back into bed. 10:03pm get back out of bed to grab said child and put her in bed with me. Sleep on half a pillow on the almost edge of the bed. 12am Husband comes to bed and opens closet for a blanket. Proceeds to go to bed and snore off and on throughout the night. 2am Wake up and...
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Kids
No one really prepares you when you have kids. Your parents will be beyond the moon to have grandchildren and your friends, the ones who have kids anyway, are so happy that someone else is joining the club. To say your life is over, is not only wrong, but just an insult. Your life…changes. The focus shifts from you to them and the trick is to not blame the partner you entered into this new...
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The Music Makes You Go...Hmmmm
My drive to work isn’t long at all, about 20 minutes total. Some mornings I’m so late I wish it was 10! I don’t make phone calls, but instead just listen to the radio. It’s the only time I really do listen to music or at least the music I want to hear. This morning as I turned on Backspin, I was treated to a little De La Soul, Ring, Ring, Ring.
It immediately took me back...
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Toes
Spring is here! It’s time to change the closets over. It’s time to get serious about those workouts. It’s time to get a pedicure.
I don’t bother with my hands. I can’t even grow my nails, why bother painting them. But my toes….I can get a pedicure and it lasts for weeks.
Here’s what I’d love to do to my toes.
This might even work on my hands.
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Can't Take it Back
Just as there are movies that we’ve watched and loved, there are those that we wish we’d never seen. Not because they were horrible or a waste of time, but because they’ve shocked us with their message. And while we wish we could take back what we saw, at the same time, you know somewhere within you, you had to see it. It’s message was too powerful to miss. Let’s face...
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"Demented and Sad, But Social" The Breakfast Club
I grew up in a time when John Hughes was King. He created hit after hit that for the first time, gave a voice to the teen generation. I myself could watch any of his movies again, and again, and again, to the dismay of my father, who told me since I could recite the whole movie, I should just turn it off and sit in my room. Funny guy my dad.
I had 4 favorite movies in high school (not all John...
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Childhood in the Cul-de-sac
When I was four, my family moved to a new neighborhood. I was too young to really have any feelings about moving. In our old house, my sister and I shared a room. While we had a big back yard, the house itself was small. In our new house, my sister and I would have our own rooms. We would have two floors and a backyard with trees. We would have a furnished basement (well, mostly). And we would...
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Fast Car
Today as I was driving home with the roof open and the windows down, my mind wandered, as it usually does, and settled on the time when I had a GTI.
I never had a fast car before, and in some respects, I was trying to escape my life, so the GTI fit in perfectly. I instantly fell in love with her. Driving my GTI was intoxicating. I felt in control and powerful, when in reality my life was falling...
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Pet Peeve
I find it so frustrating when people dismiss what I have to say as if I could not possibly know more than they do. That I could not possibly have more experience than they possess. It happens with exercise, with education, and with childcare.
I’ve learned to make my point and when it’s not accepted, to dismiss that person in my mind. If you don’t value my opinion, how can you...
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Josie
Right before my grandmother passed away, I was lucky enough to say good-bye. She had been in and out of a health care facility for several months, and I had visited her plenty of times then. But this stay was different. There was something very final about it and I just couldn’t bring myself to go. I was being selfish, thinking only of my feelings.
It happened the day I was completely...
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Is This Thing On???
I must admit writing a blog was a split second decision for me. I saw a friend’s blog and thought, maybe this would be what I’m looking for. This would give my thoughts a voice. I’ve always had too much to say, too many ideas in my head, and way too many one person conversations. Now I could unleash them upon the world. But would...
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Laverne Looking for Shirley
When I was in 1st grade, I met my first best friend. I had other best friends thus far, but they always had other friends I had to compete with. Take my friend A who scooted over on her skateboard the day I moved in. She is and will always be a best friend, a sister. But there were other neighborhood children and even my own sister who vied for her attention.
So when I met Rebecca, I felt like I...
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Yum
So…I can’t eat anything good for the next 26 days. Thankfully pinterest.com let me feed my brain. Here’s what I would eat right now if I could….
fruit and chocolate - ice cream sandwiches - chocolate covered cherries - M&Ms and peanut butter - samoa cookies - chocolate...
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Did You Read It Yet???
For the past several months, I’ve been urging you to buy my friend Norm’s book Pushups in the Prayer Room. I’m not doing this because he’s a friend of mine. (Sorry Norm, but a friend’s book only gets one mention.) I’m urging you to buy his book because after you read it, you’ll feel as if you were the one who traveled the world, without getting any of...
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Detox
I know why detox fails. In plain English, it sucks. Right now as I write this, I just want to hit something, or crawl into bed and cry. I’m so angry, so hungry, and just so…angry! It makes perfect sense to me why someone addicted to drugs and/or alcohol goes right back to their addiction. It’s the easy button.
Let me clarify that I’m detoxing from a food allergy that has...
Person of the Week: Wilma Rudolph →
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A few years ago I wanted to deprogram my girls from thinking that women had to look like the images they saw in magazines and on TV. My friend Helen suggested a few biographies of women she felt made their mark on the world. They were women who were valued for their achievements rather than…
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Motivation on an Unmotivated Morning
I love to workout. Not just because I like the results, but because I’m a kinesthetic person. If I don’t move, I get antsy. This morning, I’m not feeling the motivation to move. I’m feeling the need to be lazy. But I shouldn’t. I have no reason to be lazy. Pinterest.com to the rescue!!!
Here’s my motivation.
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Pay No Attention....
One of my favorite lines fromThe Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum… “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” The Wizard of Oz says this when Toto pulls open the curtain to reveal that there really isn’t a wizard at all. It’s just a man with a machine. My friend Jess and I laugh about this line and use it...
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Favorite Books
While thinking about next week’s Person of the Week, my mind immediately drifted to books I’ve read and then of course to books that were my absolute favorites. I’ve read each of these books more than once. I own them somewhere… Several are books that I studied in school and have writing in the margins.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
This is a banned...
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Take a Moment...
I have a friend K. who posts her daily thoughts on a sign and leaves them at the edge of her driveway. They are simple things for us to think about. Today’s post read: Anxious? Take a deep breath. So I did.
I see her sign every morning on the way to work and even though I know it’s not true, I feel like she posts them just for me. For that one second it takes to read her sign, I can...
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Favorite Toys
Do you remember your childhood? The toys that made you laugh? The games you used to play? Looking at my daughters’ playroom upstairs, I wish they had my childhood. I wish they could play imaginary games or stay outside for hours, just wandering the neighborhood with a gang of kids.
Here are my favorite childhood past times…
Climbing trees was my all time favorite activity. My yard...
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Mothers and Daughters
I have three daughters. Yes, I said three. Right now as I write this post, one of them is laying on me like a cat. She often tells me she loves me more than anyone and anything in the world. I know these are just words, but I believe her. Mothers and daughters just have a special bond.
When I first found out I was having a daughter, I was unsure how...
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Enough Already...
Today I felt like my car had a bull’s eye on it. Today someone I dislike won a prize. Today I gave someone a tip and they took it as a challenge. Today I picked up my child from gymnastics only to receive a full on tantrum as a thank you. Today I didn’t cut the sandwiches the right way or order the right dinner. Today I tried. And despite my good efforts, I can’t help but feel...
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Alone
There are few times when I get to be alone anymore. Children, husband, dog, and a job make it impossible to have a day all to me. A day when I get to act like a free person. Where there are no restraints tying me down. In fact I purposely get up early to sit in the dark and just think. No one says Mommy or Mrs.M. It’s completely quiet. I love it.
With that being said, I don’t like to...
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