Sunday, October 01, 2006

Damn you, Victoria Principal!

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Principal Secret is slowly but surely discontinuing its original spa products. This means that slowly but surely it will be harder and harde...

Now for something completely different

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Menopause. According to my doctor, I still have a way to go before I have to confront it. But I've been watching my oldest friend, just ...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

My favorite headline

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September 29, 2006 Pamela Anderson's nipples look depressed Read it for yourself: http://thesuperficial.com/2006/09/pamela_andersons_nip...

He did it, he did it, he did it!

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Two runs, three hits, seven innings. And now the Dodgers are in the play-offs. Nicely done! I love you, Greg Maddux. It's 9-6 Colorado a...

Come on, Professor …

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"Greg Maddux, who's pitched in 11 postseasons, can seal a spot for LA." So reads the headline on MLB.com. It's cloudy and ...

Sincere tribute or nasty slap? You decide.

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Sir Paul has dedicated his new album to his first wife Linda. This latest musical creation is an orchestral work in four movements called ...
Friday, September 29, 2006

What I'm doing instead

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I'm not: • Sorting my laundry • Paying my end o' the month bills • Wrapping my nephew's birthday presents • Making sense of all ...

I'm not good at this

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My best friend is off to Dallas right now as we speak. He's spending the weekend there to celebrate a family wedding, and he's flyin...

Digging for gold

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Seen on the el this morning: Young, upwardly mobile suburban mom, bringing baby girl and stroller downtown. Just about everything on both mo...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

I like Addison

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I do. Because she's so much less whiny and wussy than Meredith. (And perhaps because she's a redhead, like yours truly.) I hope that...

Stuff I care about, and stuff I don't

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When something captures my fancy I tend to read about/watch it obsessively. Lately that includes: The National League Wildcard Race: Please,...

Girl Crush … as seen in the NY Times …

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… meaning not "girl-on-girl," as seen in Girls Gone Wild infomercials.* During the summer of 2005, the NY Times wrote about how wo...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

About those headaches

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On Saturday, 9/16, I suffered from a headache that would have killed a lesser man. It was really brutal. Throbbing and unrelenting, it left ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

I love this stuff

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I'm watching The Thin Man . The original in the series. It's the 1930s, people were suffering, and yet this movie was successful eno...

"Yes. But Not With You."

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So read the tight, tight, tight t-shirt I saw on a very buxom woman on Michigan Avenue today. We could not only see her rack, her tummy roll...

Not me. Not yet, at least.

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Traitors! Traitors, all! I refer, of course, to the legions of Chicago pedestrians walking up and down State Street with white bags, adorned...

Strictly within Code

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More from my trip to Los Angeles … My best friend and I stayed up almost all night both nights. Gossiping, teasing, laughing and talking, ta...
Monday, September 25, 2006

How my home is different from a luxury hotel

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1) I have only two pillows on the solitary, full-sized bed in my bedroom. Not four pillows piled high on each of the queen-sized beds. 2) Wh...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

24 Hours from Now

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At this time tomorrow I will be on my way to Dodger Stadium to watch my beloved, future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux take the mound against the...

I'm Laurie. I'm 5.

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Here's a fun little time suck for you. You Are 5: The Investigator You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love l...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

Oh, but it hurt!

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Saturday afternoon I got a headache. A killer headache. Throbbing. Severe. Impossible to concentrate. Impossible to sleep. Impervious to ibu...

Quiet Desperation

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I spent a good part of Friday afternoon listening to the results of some client-sponsored consumer research on retirement and anticipated qu...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Say it ain't so, Joe!

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My IPass internet service STILL doesn't work from home! And when I got into the office and called my own personal IT guy, he wasn't ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Spotlighting a Bit Player

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Ever since I was a little girl and my parents took me downtown to see Mary Poppins , I have loved movies. I adore the entire movie-going exp...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Well, that was a let down

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Because I was such a passionate (some would say "rabid") supporter of Senator Kerry's, some people insist I hate George W. Bus...

I may start seeing other hosts

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Vox and Wordpress are making serious plays for my blog. I like blogger.com well enough. But it's fun to be wooed ...
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Monday, September 11, 2006

Appalled, yet jealous, too

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One of my coworkers, a gal with a very big personality, was talking about the impact rainy days like today have on her. She said she just w...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Escape into the world of gangsters -- with an "r"

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Angels with Dirty Faces is on. This is a terrific old Warner Bros. gangster flick, complete with Cagney AND Bogart and Pat O'Brien as a...

Attention, Lurkers: This One's for You

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I know I have lurkers and I welcome you. After all, there are blogs I visit on the sly myself. But it occurs to me that you lurkers know not...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Women I Love to Hate

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This morning I watched a documentary ("Headliners and Legends") about Betty Broderick. I hate her. I know this because I have see...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

What I've Learned Today

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We are approaching the third solid week where I've had little or nothing to do at work. At first I really enjoyed it. During my tenure h...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

It makes me sooo tired

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Today was the annual agency/client softball game. I hated every hot, sunny moment. I have such a hard time with small talk. I can't talk...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

What reflects "the Real Laurie?"

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I have acquiesced to be photographed for this year's church directory. I did it in 2003 but not 2004 or 2005. The decision is based on h...
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Monday, September 04, 2006

My Last 2006 Telethon Post

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Because WGN cuts away for the Cubs, the Telethon is still on here in Chicago. Harlem Furniture has promised to double every pledge that'...

Meet the Gang

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Right now I'm surrounded by slumbering felines, and when they're asleep like this, they are just TOO CUTE! So let me introduce these...