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February 16, 2010
- Because I procrastinate, I waited until today to pay my credit card that was due today. I try to log in online to make the payment, to which I receive a message that my social security number is incorrect.I call the company, because I do not want a late fee, and speak to a man for about 10 minutes. He's pretty agreeable, except he will not wave the $15 fee for making a payment online. I know ...
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January 22, 2010
- Arianna Huffington (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/sleep-challenge-2010-i-no_b_430748.html?&just_reloaded=1) has a sleep challenge for women. Her logic is that women have accomplished so much thay we could accomplish more if we are well rested. I read her opening blog for the series that women should literally sleep their way to the top. She has scarry facts that women are ...
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January 12, 2010
- well...i met you when you were 14you didn't seem quite 14you know, you are the age now i was when i met youanyway...you did not seem to like all the stuff going on around you and you didn't participate in it. you were in that crazy class with all those loud boys, remember? you just looked as annoyed as i was.
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November 17, 2009
- The empathy I have always felt for characters scares me. I perhaps identify with imaginative people too much. Laura Ingalls Wilder struck me as a young girl. I recall crying because Mary went blind and Nellie Olson taunted everyone. Later, it was Charlotte Doyle, the Goosebump characters, and the boy from Where The Red Fern Grows. Then books started to teach me how literature connected the world ...
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September 18, 2009
- "Forgiveness is for yourself, not the injuring party," Aunt B always says. But if I forgive, does that mean a relationship, whether distant or close, must form? I want no relationship but I do want my thoughts void of her. If I forgive, will that happen? It should be easy to forgive the mentally ill, such as my mother is, logically. She is sick, so she won't get help, so she won't ...
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August 26, 2009
- This cusp that I approach tonight receives more hype from family and friends than from me. When I signed up for Red Room, I laughed as I read the bios of the directors, as they are all 29. I really was 29! I still am, for about another hour and a half.Thinking back 10 years ago, I can remember my 20th birthday. My friend Jen came to visit me at college, and I went out with some girlfriends. We ...
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August 19, 2009
- My southern mother had several rules for me. And by several, I mean several dozens. Among my favorites, which I will never pass over to my daughter: eat before you go on a dinner date, always curl your hair, wash your hair twice so it shines more, wear high heels and pantyhose as often as possible, and never talk about sex, religion, or politics.Mother thought they were unbecoming or rough ...
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August 3, 2009
- Word of the day sent me today's word-'Hauteur.' I am adding this to my daily vocabulary. I know someone whose mean attitude, nasty disposition, and overall ignorance can better be described as hauteur.
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July 27, 2009
- Chicago passed the nation's first green food resolution last Tuesday according to earthascope.com. The resolution encourages healthier eating for Chicago's people. Great news, and smaller areas like my town might follow. All of this news made me think of corn syrup. The Corn Refiners Association has those commercials touting that corn syrup is ok in moderation, like sugar. More research keeps ...
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July 25, 2009
- As a teacher, I hear about the boring school setting. Hey, I work there. I know a high school can be boring. The difference is, I expect it to be boring. Life is sometimes boring, and I actually think it is fine for school to be boring sometimes.I cannot sing and dance and I cannot make a creative song out of every new grammar term or literary term. I will not accompany every lesson with a ...
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July 24, 2009
- I struggle to organize my pictures and scrapbooking. I want to give my children a book of memories when they are older. Dcumenting what they do makes me happy and provides a hobby and outlet for me. I know I can't document it all, but I want to write down, record, or photograph most of it. I write what they say, watch, eat, see, do.All of this is pretty silly. By trying to hold onto all of their ...
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July 23, 2009
- The lack of education about breastfeeding hurts society.As I watch Dr. Drew host "16 and Pregnant/After Labor" he commented that breastfeeding is harder than the romantic notion people have of it. The painting (and I don't know which one) of a mother lovingly lookiong at her eating child comes to mind. That's really my only romantic picture of breastfeeding.Breastfeeding, like almost ...
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July 23, 2009
- My friend asked me to go to her church group on Tuesday mornings. For a few weeks I've been attending and reading the book and bringing snacks and taking notes and just being really dutiful. I like church more than I once did, and even though this isn't my church, I thought I'd give it my all. I wasn't feeling all of the discussions over the last few weeks. I am an open person, so that means I ...
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July 7, 2009
- My little brother has passed me in every way my entire life. Sure, that's tons of hyper-qualifiers, but it is all true. When he was in the first grade and I was in the third, he always came to my classroom for language art classes. We went away to college the same semester, even though I had already gone for two years. It was like I had waited for him to leave. He is visiting me right now ...
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July 4, 2009
- This fourth of July is a busy one with parades, several parties to attend, and a flag dedication.Even though I am confident in my beliefs and outwardly strong, I still have a fear every time I lift my shirt in public to breast feed my daughter. It's not like I've even had a negative experience. My face isn't inviting: people don't see me as approachable to their ideas. Plus, it really is a ...
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