Sunday, July 16, 2006

This stuff is good

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1) I saw my best friend on Wednesday night. He looked wonderful. He was in for a job interview and he might get a firm job offer. I hope he ...
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Mother/Daughter Role Reversal

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My mother had quite the week last week. She had a malignant growth removed from her left arm -- skin cancer. The hole took five stitches to ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Reynaldo & Me, Life and Love with the World's Worst Cat

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Reynaldo is 2.5 years old. This cat is no longer a kitten. Yet even though chronologically he should have left kittenhood behind, he remains...
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Monday, July 10, 2006

Why Suri Cruise matters

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I just downloaded Suri Cruise's birth certificate. And I, too, wonder why she hasn't been seen. I also feel terribly invested in Jen...
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Sunday, July 09, 2006

I'm an American Girl

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With all apologies to Tom Petty fans, I'm going to mix and merge two of his songs here. A few years back, I met a Jordanian ex-patriate ...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Back to the grind

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Why is it so hard to concentrate after four glorious days off? Shouldn't I feel invigorated and re-energized? Instead I'm lethargic ...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Unable to part with Johnny Depp

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Right here beside me is Johnny Depp, smiling from the June 26 cover of Newsweek . I am making an optimistic attempt to rid my living room of...
Monday, July 03, 2006

Nothing to do except to wait and to hurt

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From The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, the novel by Mark Haddon that I just finished: "I wanted to go to sleep so tha...
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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Here's to a Yankee Doodle Dandy Weekend

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I'm on the first full day of my four day weekend. It's viciously hot and humid outside, but I'm lounging in climate-controlled c...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Waiting … just waiting

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We have to get a project out tonight. First I had to wait around for the account team to get it together so they could share the client-requ...
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Saturday, June 24, 2006

He's still there.

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My best friend called, and somehow even everything is a little better. He's still out there. He still reads my emails. He still cares ab...
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Friday, June 23, 2006

When do you tip? Help me! Please!

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When my refrigerator arrived from Sears, I tipped each of the two young men who installed it and hauled the old one away. They were gracious...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

When is a friend not a friend?

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When you realize you miss him entirely too much, that's when. It's a long, complicated story, but my best friend (my "office sp...
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Hooked on Dolls. The Valley of the Dolls DVD.

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I saw this movie for the first time in the early 1970s. I was babysitting, the kids were asleep, and I watched it on a color TV with a rabbi...
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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Sick of making do, getting by

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It's hot this weekend. Really, really hot this weekend. I hate the heat. So I was going to spend a relaxing weekend at home, in the AC,...
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Friday, June 16, 2006

Icky Vicki of the Main Post Office, Oak Park, IL

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There was a package waiting for me at the post office. Good news. So I swung by on my way to work to get it. That means that the first perso...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

My motor is racing

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I can't relax. I can't chill out. I'm under a lot of stress at work these days (which I resent, because it's not client-gene...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

An infomercial on PBS?

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I'm watching a blonde with a very thick Hungarian accent -- Dr. Denese of the Manhattan Anti-Aging Clinic -- talk about how to battle wr...
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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Discovering the balance in Homeowner's Karma

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My new refrigerator arrived this morning! It is adorable, with recessed Euro handles. When I bought it originally, I wasn't this enthusi...

al-Zarqawi: This is "good news?"

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I worked very hard on behalf of Senator Kerry's election in 2004. A day doesn't go by that I don't wish 11/02/04 had ended diffe...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

Jinx!

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I got up this morning at 4:00 with really hideous stomach pains. In the interest of delicacy, let's just leave it at that. Stress goes t...
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Thursday, June 08, 2006

I'm sooo tired

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I ain't as young as I used to be. I just finished a concept presentation to my client, and I'm exhausted. I used to get off the on d...
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Sunday, June 04, 2006

One more thing about That Girl …

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During the credits, every time I see the New York skyline, my heart sinks a bit. No World Trade Center. Of course, That Girl was filmed in t...
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Waiting for a very specific phone call

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I got in and saw the red light flashing and the words, "Message Waiting," on the Caller ID display. I checked and saw that my moth...
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Appreciating That Girl

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I got the entire first season of That Girl on DVD, and I'm into it. I know it's crap. But that doesn't mean it can't be fu...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Is this anyway for a grown woman to behave?

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Yesterday I was feeling quite virtuous after doing 8 laps around the running track at the local high school. I was moving rather briskly ba...
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Monday, May 29, 2006

The "joys" of being a homeowner

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This weekend I hate owning this condo. It won't cool off! We're close to breaking a record for Memorial Day heat and humidity – sinc...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006

At this very moment, I'm a happy Cub fan

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It's the first inning. We're playing Atlanta. They are putting the legendary John Smoltz on the mound, against some little puppy pit...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Stuff, stuff, and more stuff!

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This month alone I've visited Goodwill three times and divested myself of 8 t-shirts, 9 jackets, 6 sweaters, 2 dresses and a pair of sho...
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Hooked on Pogo, Hooked on Next Time

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I love Pogo. I love Word Whomp, the slots, solitaire and most of all, Turbo 21. These online games of chance have me obsessed. I play them w...
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

A glimpse of the old Mad Dog

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As of yesterday, the Cubs losing streak has officially stopped being funny. Future Hall of Famer #31, Greg Maddux, was inept. When that happ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Shopping for a life I don't have

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I live in a very nice 2BR condo on the top floor of a very nice building. The neighborhood is terrific. While I long to redo the bathroom so...
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Monday, May 22, 2006

You never give me your money ...

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The Beatle puns are starting to turn up everywhere, even in the legitimate press like TIME and NEWSWEEK, in reports on the McCartney-Mills b...
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

I could listen to him all day

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Former Senator John Edwards is being interviewed on ABC right now. Love the blue eyes, love the hair, love the voice. Oh, I completely appro...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

Be careful who you Google

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Decades ago I was involved with two very different men. One was sweet, stable, sensitive. The other was charming, gorgeous and tormented. A ...