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Is the internet on Spring Break or what?

Don’t Look Back (Places I’ve Been)

New York. I was born here and we visit friends of ours who live in Brooklyn from time to time. And we spent New Year’s 1999-2000 here and it was awesome. I love New York because it is scrappy and busy and loud and made up of all these tiny bright parts – just [...]

Where Would You Go?

Top Ten Places I Would Like to Visit Someday – International*
1. Paris, France
2. Australia and New Zealand, yes I consider this one place, so sue me.
3. Israel
4. Egypt
5. South Africa
6. India
7. Russia
8. Finland
9. Italy
10. Spain
Top Ten Places I Would Like to Visit Someday- Domestic*
1. Hawaii
2. The Grand Fricking Canyon
3. Mount Rushmore
4. Glacier National Park
5. [...]

Friday Weigh In

Previous: 153. 2 (EEEP!)
Current:  151.6
Loss:   1.6
Pounds to mini goal:  11.6
My theory is that anything over 150 is fake Easter weight and I refuse to even consider it as really happening, so I was hoping for a much bigger loss this week. Like my first week of “being good” should return to me a “normal” [...]

Myth Busters

As soon as people find out you’re pregnant, you start to hear it from all sides….the proclamations of doom, the smug and nasty little one liners, the stings disguised as helpful advice. (I can’t help but notice that a great deal of it comes from people who don’t have children.) But when [...]

Partnership

Pay attention, because I am about to reveal the entire key to my entire personality.
Deep deep down inside I am a really really lazy person. And if I let myself I would eat nothing but garbage, I would live in filth. I would never shower and I’d never ever ever put the toilet [...]

An Update on the Fabulous

Updates in italics.  I am actually a rockstar of this list, it turns out. I have gotten so much of it done! Yeah me!
1. Get a haircut :  It could be shorter, but whatever, it’s cute, it’ll do. Next time I’ll make the person cut it shorter and more angled, I think. 
2. Paint my [...]

MY Easter Basket

Ok, I realize that announcing this is about to indicate just how closely I am walking the line between huge nerd and over the top yuppie.
But I am getting my very first farm box delivery on Wednesday!
Seriously, I am more excited about this than I have been about anything in like, ages.
I’ve been obsessively googling [...]

Two

1977, Age Two
I spend the night at my friends house, a boy who lives in our neighborhood, down the street. I remember nothing about him, thirty years later, but I adored his mother, Arlene, and I remember standing in her bedroom on my tiptoes, balanced on a green velvet stool, looking into her dresser mirror [...]

Oh Crap.