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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A Diva in Idaho

Tonight I bid farewell (sort of) to a character in my life, Ms. Diva.  As Gavin explains it, due to the economy she must move on.  As much as it sucks, one door closes and many more open right?  So my dear friend, the Diva,  is moving to Idaho.  I know a Diva in Idaho is hard to [...]

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My People – My Cast of Characters

Last Saturday my over dramatic child started theatre class.  I deemed it an appropriate outlet for his excessive amount of 7-year-old energy and yes for the critics out there, he has played and will play sports again.  Come on, as a stay-at-work mom I can only fit one extra curricular in at a time!  So [...]

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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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Fog is lifting

So as life continues to be completely unpredictable and crazy, I am happy to report that the fog is lifting.  It always seems that everything happens at once and to complicate matters, it never fails that all of the chaos happens during the holidays.  So with my fog starting to dissipate I have a lot to [...]

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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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Absolute Admiration………

To my brother, One-year-ago, we had a telephone conversation were we laughed about the marathon runners running past your house. “why would they do that, it is cold, rainy and 26.5 miles?!”  Ten-months-ago you were still smoking one or more packs a day…and then it happened.  What happened, I am not sure but you got [...]

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