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msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines NYT Recipes for HealthOK, so hopefully the point of this exercise is to reflect positively on every day and not actually POST every day. I’m playing catch-up, but at least I’m catching up. Grace 5 (Monday) Able to spend a lovely Monday afternoon working in a garden and greenhouse, pushing wheelbarrows, shoveling compost and transplanting herbs. (I liked [...]
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Since E.P.T. abruptly signaled a near end to the us-centered lives of Kyle and me, we decided that it would be wise, responsible and prudent to take a week off from work to spend money we don’t have on a little getaway. So that’s what we did. We took a cruise from L.A. and visited San [...]
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In just a few short days, Kyle and I will be embarking on the second real vacation of our married lives. And why will this one be better than the first? Kyle isn’t a walking germ fest. We’re not emotionally and physically exhausted from planning a wedding. And because we really, really NEED it. Isn’t [...]
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So I really didn’t plan on my blog turning into a “pregnancy blog,” and it’s still not. It’s just that all I write about is pregnancy. I guess it’s because, what better to write about than the time I got home from Aqua Moms and cried on my bathroom floor for 10 minutes because the shower door [...]
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I’m dabbling in a movie love affair. I say dabbling because I’m only, like, flirting with film. Watching the There Will Be Bloods and the No Countries for Old Men, the Little Miss Sunshines; waiting to relax and sip a drink with the Junos and Atonements; catching up on the Magnolias and Requiems for a [...]
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Not only does Harry P. not have to be out of my life forever, but I also have an incentive for having children: I can read them Harry’s stories and re-live the magic all over again! Why didn’t I think of this before?? Being a parent finally sounds like fun.
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I love a good dystopia: Big Brother, barren women, bald Natalie Portmans and Brave New Worlds. Social restrictions stifle, and I quiver on the couch while clutching my Mexican blanket, fearful of doom and all its inevitabilities. My husband sits beside me, cheerfully eating Blue Bell ice cream. “Don’t you KNOW that the world is [...]
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Parking three blocks from my downtown workplace has many cons and only three pros: I don’t have to pay the $30 a month to park in the lot across from my workplace, I get some exercise (you know how they say to take the stairs instead of the elevator? this walk is my justification for [...]
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