If you read my friend Weaselmomma’s blog, World of Weasels, you know that this week she completely lost her mind and added a mastiff puppy to her brood of five children, a couple of cats, a non-human rodent or two (I lose track: we recently lost Gimpy and Tenderfoot…), a couple of frogs, and lord knows how many other animals that are there in that house that I haven’t even seen yet in the many times I’ve been over there. But I get it. I’m a total dog person and I adore puppies (can’t wait to meet that little peeing-in-the-kitchen-half-the-time-but-getting-much-better darlin’), so going gaga over one is not a foreign…
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They Weren’t Fit; They Were Just Drawn That Way.
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about these days, what with everything going on in the world and how busy we are all the time and all of the convenience foods that we devour because we don’t have time to cook healthy meals regularly, now we also have to worry about how technology is making it harder for us to fit into our clothing. It seems like a no-brainer, you know? Just as the best way to lose weight is to get moving, the best way to gain weight is to…stop moving. And that’s what so many of us have done: we’ve just stopped moving. Because of Twitter,…
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My First Rejection (or, “They Can’t All Be Gems, You Know!”)
I consider myself to have been a pretty normal teenaged girl when it came to having raging crushes on rock stars, tv stars, and movie stars. I also, as many teenaged girls do, wrote fan letters on occasion. I remember writing to Charlene Tilton once, to tell her how much I loved “Dallas”. I was thrilled to receive, a couple of months later, an original cast photo that was autographed by every single stinking one of them, including Jock and Ellie*. Much later, when I was crazy about the band Berlin, I wrote a fan letter to John Crawford, who I totally adored. It won’t surprise you at all, because…
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This One’s For My Chi-town Peeps
…Okay, and anyone else who wants to see, take a look! Remember our trip to Key Lime Cove over spring break? We took a little detour on the way home. This place has been on my list for several months now, and I was really excited to go there for lunch. We LOVED it. L-O-V-E-D it. Though the thirteen-year-old will be less than thrilled to see that they used the photo which includes him, front-and-center, with his mouth full of food, I love the way the page looks. Besides online, it will be in the Summer 2008 edition of Chicago Parent Going Places Magazine. Wanna see? Click here.
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The Aftermath of a Great Day: It’s a Good Thing!
I hope everybody out there had a lovely Mother’s Day! I had a fine day; thanks for asking. As is customary, I got four cards: one from Jim, one from each of the kids (they picked out those musical Hallmark cards: SO CUTE!), and one from Roxie. I may have to scan the card that Roxie “picked out” and post it tomorrow; Jim is hilarious. Although I had to teach my religious school class in the morning—meaning no leisurely breakfast in bed—the rest of the day was fabulously low-key, which is just what I needed. We went to see “Baby Mama”, which is a cute movie but not riproaringly hilarious…
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Send Some MoJo My Way, Please!
Just a 30-second rant, here. Humor me. I am working on an article that is due in 6 days. I have no doubt I will get it done; I am more than halfway finished. I am just not feeling it, though! The topic of this article is something that is extremely familiar to me and I should be having an easy time of it…but I’m not! I am easily distracted and want to take the dog for a walk, but I really, really, really want to get this monkey off my back. My paycheck is waiting for me and will be sent here as soon as I send in this…
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Shameless Plug
Now that the holidays are over, it’s time for me to get back to business on a few things, one of them being writing (yay!), and I’m not just talking about bloggin’! The three magazine articles which I’ve already gotten assignments for are calling me, and (I’m putting it out in the universe not as a resolution but as a commitment) I plan to send off several queries to some new magazines by this Monday. The other piece of “business” I need to get back to is promoting my book, Remembering Ruby: For Families Living Beyond the Loss of a Pet. Many of you knew me from my other blog…
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NaBloPoMo is O-Vo, Fo Sho!
Yay! I’m too exhausted to say much else about that. Successful month of blogging. Happy it’s over but will still keep up with my two bloggies very, very frequently! (hopefully almost everyday!) Fare thee well, NaBloPoMoFo 2007. Fare thee well.
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And the Results Are In…Halloween 2007 Deemed a Great Success!
Wow! Even with really sub-par Halloween decorations, the day went amazingly well! First, I had a GREAT morning. After meeting with Manic Mommy on Monday (which I posted about on my other blog), I was very, very motivated to write. She and I talked alot about finding/making the time to write and I told her that I had an article that I had been intending to work on for months and months, but when the book stuff got into full gear my article writing all but stopped. Okay, it did stop. Until yesterday. I sat my butt down at the computer and wrote this 1850-word article from start to finish:…