Today I tried on dresses so I would know what I should pack for BlogHer next week. I never needed a shot of Bailey’s in my morning coffee more than I did this morning. My really nice dresses? They now fit like sausage casings. My shelf ass? Makes the hem of every dress I could [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Behold the Turtle Burger
July 29th, 2010
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I got this photo and text in an e-mail today and my life? It will never be the same. I am both horrified and fascinated. This is the sort of kick-ass fucking awesomeness that makes the terrorists hate us. Here’s the text of the e-mail: I have no idea where the name comes from. Supposedly, [...]
Pantry purge fail
July 29th, 2010
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Last weekend, I decided to clean out my pantry for two reasons. First, I wanted to actually be able to find things. It’s a small closet with four shelves and a floor where we have a rolling cart with two drawers, so there’s not a lot of space. It was an chaotic mess in there, [...]
BlogHer? I didn’t even kiss her.
July 29th, 2010
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I am attending BlogHer 10 in New York next week and I could not be more excited, even if I am a wee bit anxious. I don’t care about private parties. I had no expectation of being invited to an exclusive party by people I’ve never met because I’m kind of realistic that way. Besides, [...]
Any way you want it
July 23rd, 2010
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Last night I attended my fist water aerobics class in, I don’t know, almost a year. Most of the same folks were still there from last summer. None of them appeared to be any fitter than they were last summer. That was both a little disturbing and comforting. My favorite instructor was teaching. I’d been [...]
Hurts…so, good?
July 22nd, 2010
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I have been swimming every day this week. Not really swimming as much as water aerobics. With weights. So yeah, I am on gramma’s work-out routine. But it’s something. And I must be doing a good job because I’m sore. Everywhere. My eyebrows are sore. I may have sprained an ear lobe. Why does exercise [...]
A day of random weirdness
July 16th, 2010
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I have nothing especially funny/interesting/insightful to say, but why should that keep me from writing a blog entry? I had to run an errand for work this morning, which was a very good thing because I got to go to Starbucks. I was practically talking dirty to my iced grande non-fat, no-whip white chocolate mocha. [...]
I picked the wrong day…
July 12th, 2010
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Charles Barkley, the former-NBA-player-now-professional-fat-guy, once said that it was stupid to start a diet in the middle of the week. I wholeheartedly agreed with that statement. So much so that I have often spent Wednesdays through the weekends stuffing my face like I’m a death row inmate’s and the warden is on his way. So [...]
Salad days
July 7th, 2010
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We went out to a great little bar between the two lakes here and I was really going to be good and order a salad. Except I didn’t get a “good” salad. I got a GREAT salad! And it probably had a 1,000 calories. Strips of flank steak marinaded in bourbon, grilled and sliced and [...]
Peaceful, easy feeling
July 6th, 2010
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I cannot tell you how much being near water calms me. Much better than Klonopin or Prozac. My in-laws have a three-bedroom condo on a lake in Indiana, my and my husband’s home state. Even though I have only been visiting here for six summers, it feels so much like home. Even when my in-laws [...]
