Dear Friends
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I Am Living Right
So this is a weird way to put this, but I keep thinking it – if 2012 is my last year to live (and it almost certainly isn’t), I am definitely living it right! I had a pitch perfect Christmas, a slam dunk Mardi Gras, an amazing trip outside the country, a majorly fun visit from my sister and her hubs, and now we just experienced my favorite Easter (as an adult). I’m doing something right here. Getting jobs and moving towards finding a permanent home has apparently rosied up my glasses, because everything seems to be working out to perfection this year. KNOCKING ON SO MUCH WOOD. Holy Week…
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Thanksgiving Trip
I am in the middle of exams, I have a wedding to update (I’ve written snippets here and there, but I need to link them all together into something coherent), I have various other side projects demanding my attention – life is BUSY, yo. But I still managed to squeeze in jotting off this description of Thanksgiving: We piled into the car and started our drive at around lunchtime on Tuesday. I attended two morning classes beforehand, which started us a little later than usual. Despite tons of pretty bad rain, we made great time, and got to the in-laws’ place about 9.5 hours after we’d left. When we walked…
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Proof? Or Consequences?
If my internetting skills are remotely up to snuff, there should be a new link over there to your right for a new blog by an old friend: Proof or Consequences. This friend is an actual writer by trade, having just completed 999,999 steps out of 1,000,000 towards her MA degree in communication (the millionth being the thesis, blarg.) She has amazing taste, amazing experiences (CCL: please write about being an au pair!), and amazing skills (not quite nunchuck skills or bow staff skills, but she’ll do). She is mama to a little brown adventurer, a toddler daughter who is fearless, charming, sharp, and really, really fun to watch navigate…
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Rainy Friday Blues
No raise now. In December, they’ve promised to “look at” my issues. Let’s look at the other wonderful things that have hit me before 10am on this rainy Friday morning: 1 – Mom called while I was driving to work – she has to have semi-emergency gall bladder surgery this morning. Her condition is not life threatening, but it is painful. Oh, and they’re MOVING HOUSE in like four days. 2 – Baby sister Corrie, who turns 18 today and gets no party or attention because of Mom’s surprise surgery, also needs to be deposited, along with all her teenaged stuff, to her freshman dorm this week. 3 – Given…
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Rockin’ the Free World
Little Sam Whitfield, last seen on this blog at Anderson Fest toddling around the pontoon boat, has turned one year old. To mark the occasion, his parents threw a birthday party for him at their home in South Carolina, and the Professor and I got up early in the morning on Saturday to head down for it. Sam was obviously given the manual for How to Behave at One’s First Birthday, because he very obediently chewed on all the birthday cards, tried to inhale a balloon, and moussed his hair with blue icing. The guests of this party were all over the age of 25, excepting one little 6 month…