Let the Madness Begin

November 22, 2010

It’s here — Thanksgiving Week.  The official kick-off to the holidays, a short work week and time to feast, gather, give thanks.  Maybe even rest (yeah, right). I’m excited.  I’m a holiday dork — I love this season, even though it causes me all kinds of stress.  Every year, I vow to enjoy it more.  Some […]

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One Track Mind

November 21, 2010

I would love to know what causes a song to get stuck in your head.  We’ve all had it happen and sometimes it’s a couple of hours, maybe a day or two. Well, I’m now going on five days since I watched the last episode of Glee, and in that time, Gwyneth Paltrow has basically moved […]

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Morning Glory

November 18, 2010

One of the big trade-offs of moving to the suburbs was dealing with a daily commute into the city.  I knew I wasn’t going to love it but, in the grand scheme of the moving equation, it seemed tolerable.  What I didn’t know is that NJ Transit is one of the most poorly run operations in the […]

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Filed Under: Places Near and Far, Work Stuff 4 Comments

A Walk With an App

November 16, 2010

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’ll remind you that I have little to no skill in photography.  It’s not my gig.  I’m better with a keyboard. But I do have two kids, a pug, some fall foliage and a camera, and I’m sort of obsessive about trying to document a lot of everyday happenings […]

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Back in Business

November 15, 2010

My husband has so much patience.  He can wait and wait for things to be precisely as they should be.  He is highly methodical, very detail-oriented and he never backs down from a challenge. So when the Trojan Horse virus punks came along and seized the full contents of our computer about six weeks ago (more on that here and […]

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A Constant Ringing

November 11, 2010

Dear Former Owner of 908-xxx-xxxx (also known as my recently acquired iPhone number): Maybe you didn’t mean to skip out on what seems to be all of the bills you ever had.  I’m not judging.  But can you do me a huge favor and tell the six collectors who phone me (formerly you) regularly that […]

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The Canine Evil Eye

November 11, 2010

The poor dog had to have three teeth pulled yesterday.  He’s pretty pissed off right now. I’m sure his pissiness exists on several levels.  First, there was the 12 hours of fasting beforehand (for general anesthesia).  This is a dog who doesn’t miss a stray scrap of food from the kids’ errant table manners.  He’s the resident […]

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A World of 140 Characters

November 10, 2010

Yesterday’s Facebook post got me thinking more about oversharing, overtalking, overfriending, etc.  Let’s move on to Twitter. Like I said, I’ve been tweeting longer than I’ve been on Facebook and I really like, even prefer, Twitter.  No, Twitter Haters, it’s not because I have to share the contents of my lunch with the world. It’s more like […]

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Trimming the Facebook Fat

November 9, 2010

I’m sort of a Facebook infant in the grand scheme of things.  I resisted for a long while and didn’t sign up until July of this year.  It was the same week, in fact, that Facebook announced its 500 millionth member.  I have to wonder if that milestone member was actually me — and, more […]

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Missing Out

November 8, 2010

I won’t get into the whole working vs staying at home debate right now, but I’ll just say that there are obviously things I miss out on during my office tour of duty every week.  Milestones, school happenings and just the silly, fun, mundane stuff.  Like this. I don’t know who the strange bear/chef is […]

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