Tag: encouragement
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No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk
Although I appreciate a clean house and a clean car, I have never been one to regularly give anything the “white glove treatment.” When friends say, “I just can’t sleep if there are dishes in the kitchen sink,” I used to think they needed to take a strong “chill pill.” However, after my first child…
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It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
Let me tell ya somethin’ — I am a MAJOR grudge holder and scorekeeper, like about EVERYTHING. Okay, I feel a lot better now that I have gotten that out. I believe I have always been this way, “tit for tat.” I am the second child, so I grew up thinking that, naturally, my parents loved my brother more and always gave him special treatment. (joking .…
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But it was 99% off
Let me tell ya somethin’ . . . I am a hoarder who likes to purge. HA! — is that even a real thing?!? I like to think so, because like most things in my life, I live in extremes. I am not sure when it started but remember as a little girl loving “stuff,” lots of…
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Keeping Up Apperances
When I was a little girl my parents used to watch a lot of British TV — who are we kidding, they still watch a lot of British TV! In fact, I am not sure if my mom realizes that America also makes television shows. Nevertheless, a show they often watched was called Keeping Up Appearances. Even as a kid I thought…
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I don’t think I heard you right, you don’t like french fries?
One day a friend with whom I work told me, “I don’t really like french fries.” I remember thinking, “That is the strangest thing I have ever heard!” (Let me just say — she is pretty strange, anyways — she likes things like cauliflower rice, spaghetti squash, and baked chicken over fried.) So, needless to…
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Coke: The New Gateway Drug
I distinctly remember the first time my husband, then boyfriend at the time, came out of the gas station with a Coke, a REAL Coke, like the old advertisement, “The Real Thing”! Yes, people, you are reading this correctly — I was just as shocked as I am sure you are right now. Well,…
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Is it Okay to NOT miss your kids?
I recently had the opportunity to go on work trip for a week, and I could not have been more ecstatic. To recap, I work part-time in sales training for the same company for which I have worked for the last 8 years. Most of my work happens between 5-7 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. Yes, I actually chose…
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what do you mean, no plan B?
Okay, okay. If you know me, you know that I am not a “Plan B” kind of person. However, in the past year I have often thought to myself, “Maybe I should look into Plan B.” Let me back up, paint a picture for you — I like to deep dive into subjects without…