Lessons: One Year Later

I am back, I am back, I am back!!!!  So after the toughest year of my life and some of the hardest lessons I have learned, I am finally ready to come up for some air.  I became so consumed with projects and problems, that my life revolved around nothing more than the Home Depot, [...]

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Catching Curve Balls

Growing up you always envision your life a certain way.  Some picture a beautiful house, a spouse, 2 kids and a dog, others see a successful career and lots of nice things, while another may picture a balance between the two and then there is always the one who pictures winning the lottery and buying [...]

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Best intentions

  “I would never buy Cheetos, but his speech therapist recommended it.  I know, I am just so embarrassed.  But they are for medicinal purposes”…this was honestly overheard at Starbucks while waiting for theatre class to end. I will start by saying, this motherhood thing is complicated.  There was no manual that showed up in the [...]

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On the 7th day of Christmas my holiday vacation gave to me….

7 inches of standing water in the back yard 6 minute pool repair for $90 5 hours of Guitar Hero play 4 House guests 3  raining days 2 pooping dogs (in the house) and another Christmas to remember! Oh the holidays…..they bring such joy!  My holidays tend to always end up like a Griswold Family [...]

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Who needs AAA? I work in construction!

Today as I am pulling out of the office I hear a horrible grinding thumping sound from the rear of my car.  I am thinking “What the hell is that?  Could it be?  A flat?”So just to make sure that something was wrong I made a couple more turns to confirm that it was not something [...]

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Dear Obama, McCain and Props 102, 200, 201

Please, oh please, stop calling and stopping by my house.  Enough is enough, unless you are going to give me some useful information.  I have one thing to say on the eve of this very important election………for once I am not sure.  A registered democrat through and through, however, I just don’t know what to do….John and [...]

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The last bit of Tucson Drama

So I am leaving Tucson and I have tweaked my back from golf, I have a killer headache and I just finished a laborious conference call. I am cruising back up I-10hoping to not run into officer McFriendly again when I notice a little ant on my dashboard. Odd for sure, so I squish it [...]

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Yes.. That was me along I-10 in 4-inch Red Patent Leather Snake Skin heels

I swear this only happens to me. I am rushing down to Tuscon for Leadership Academy, radar detector is in and I am flying at a moderate (slightly speeding) speed. I see break lights up ahead and tap off the cruise…yep there he is… brown bear in the median. I drop down to a comfortable [...]

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It was all good……….

here being lazy by the pool until…………I suffered a Wii injury. Collided with the dog. No he wasn’t on my team. Seriously, it was very difficult explaining without too much laughter at the Urgent Care. Yes, the dog is fine and I suffered only a bad bruise and sprain.

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Always wear comfortable shoes to IKEA

(A delayed post from Wednesday) Maybe it is just a girl thing but no matter how bad your feet hurt if your shoes look fabulous with your outfit, you are going to wear them no matter what. Well, at least I do. Today I had a slow day at work so before my nail appointment [...]

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