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My family and I celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve which means that Christmas Day is kind of like a freebie. The festivities are over, the presents have been opened, there are plenty of leftovers, and very few responsibilities.  This year Little Sister suggested that we do something with our parents and we settled on going [...]

Little Sister and I have spent the last three days running errands in preparation for Christmas.  And while we do get distracted easily (store Santas handing out cookies, puppies in a window, hot apple cider, weird lady listening in on our conversation in the subway) we got a lot done.  We bought a tree, lugged it to [...]

Thanks to super-librarian NPW I realized that I had a total brain fart, otherwise I would have thought to ask ya’ll for book suggestions.  I did it last year, in the good ol’ days before my 1st blog was annihilated (yeah, I’m still not fully over it and will periodically bring it up).
So throw some [...]

Maybe I’m PMSing because lately my emotions have been all over the place.  Yesterday sucked but today I found myself smiling about a lot of little things:

getting three book orders out at work
running a mile in 6.5 minutes - WOOT!
talking to the nicest customer service rep who took me off the phone plan I had [...]

It’s been almost a week since my last post and I still can’t seem to get my shit together.  Lately it just feels like time is flying by so fast and standing still at the same time.  I keep going and going and chasing and chasing but I can’t seem to catch up.  Between working [...]

I finally finished reading Twilight (yeah, yeah, as in the book that came out three years ago and has been read by everyone and their mama).  I wanted to write about it but I’m so zonked from lack of sleep that it will have to wait.  Instead, I ask - Why do people think they [...]

Talking to Ultra can be like stepping into unknown territory.  Her mind works in a mysterious way, finding correlations where I would think none existed, jumping from one bizarre topic to another but somehow, surprisingly, making sense.  She notices things that I would gloss over and she takes them to a whole ‘nother level. She [...]

I’m feeling extra lazy as of late.  At work I’m easily distracted and putting things off.  At home I don’t want to do anything constructive.  I don’t even feel like answering e-mails because of all the effort it would take to move my fingers on the keyboard so I keep marking the important stuff with [...]

Now that I got yesterday’s melancholic BS out of my system, I figured something more fun should be on the agenda.  And “statistics” is probably not a word you would associate with fun but I’ve been looking at the stats for my blog and found some amusing things.  Therefore I present you with the oddest [...]

Sunday threw me for a loop.
Wednesday had been a relief because the small break in work had finally arrived.  Thursday was great, visiting my girl Jersey and her family, talking long into the night.  Friday was all about biking, swimming, playing darts, and getting lots of bear hugs from the world’s greatest bouncer.  Saturday was [...]