January 2011
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2010 Resolutions: Success?
These were the resolutions I set on January 1st, 2010:
Talls instead of grandes, Yes! Successfully drinking talls now.
Yoga, Nope. It’s going on the list for next year.
Walks, Nah, forgot this was even on the list.
More water, Nope and there’s no excuse.
Breakfast at home, Hmm, well, yes, I think I do this quite well.
More salads for lunch, I don’t have to while on Weight...
December 2010
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“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be...”
– Armistead Maupin (via kari-shma)
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Super Step-Dad
I don’t write about my step-dad. I’m not sure why other than when something is good, there’s usually not much more to say about it. My step-dad and I had a long road to good. I plotted his death when I was thirteen. I’m sure he envisioned pushing me off a cliff, too. We had to really work to love each other and now we do.
When he found out about the latest hit and run,...
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Mrs. Levine Kicks Some Ass
I was stopped in traffic when he rammed into the back of me. Then as I pulled myself together and prepared to move four lanes over to the shoulder, his wheels squealed. He was speeding off into the carpool lane.
Oh hell no. As you might remember, I was in a hit and run at this time last year. Not again.
I hit the gas and charged after him. You can’t escape in Los Angeles’ rush hour...
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A Charmed Life
I’m in a mopy mood this week. I didn’t make the top ten marriage blog list. I’ve got whiplash from a hit and run from a few days ago (story on THAT coming soon). The Accountant’s Wife won’t return my messages about getting together for Christmas and my dad doesn’t love me enough. Boo hoo hoo.
Maybe that’s why reading one of my new fave blogs today made me...
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The Eighteenth Christmas
Last year I wrote about the consecutive seventeen Christmases I haven’t seen my dad. Depressing stuff. It’s what makes Christmas sad for me.
My dad is around. He lives a couple hours’ drive from my mom but he never asks to see me. My four half-brothers spend every Christmas with him. The last time I tried to see him, he didn’t call me back. So the bad feelings start just...
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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Drink
I had hot buttered rum at a party this week. Ah-mazing! Truly. It’s one of the best drinks I’ve ever had and so perfect for providing bliss while some nincompoop tells you about her oral surgery or another yammers on and on about the careless financial decisions being made at his church. This is it. The true saving grace this Christmas season and it’s all yours and mine…
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Not a Top Ten Marriage Blog for 2010
I didn’t make the top ten. I’m trying to not mope around like a little girl about it because…
After reading the very nice, fascinating comments on the previous post, I’ve decided that my New Year’s Resolution is to care less what people think about me. I like my blog. You’re here, so you like my blog, too. It’s cool.
Thank you so much to everyone who...
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“After long and careful consideration on both our parts, we’ve decided to...”
– Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds (another one bites the dust)
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Death and the Art of Being Ungrateful
Another work colleague died today. No one I knew, but still. Three colleagues in a year. I swear to you I work in a regular office. It’s not like I’m a deep sea fisherwoman in my 9-6 job.
I remember when the last colleague died, not that long ago. Some of her things are still around the office. Nobody wants to be the one that gets rid of them so they stay— out-of-date notes on...
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Loving What Others Hate
My husband was going through his old files and found a short essay he’d written about me five years ago. He thought I’d read it but I hadn’t, probably because it lists the things about me that are annoying. Neither of us could admit, back then, that we saw each other’s flaws.
But this was a love story, an essay about the habits I have that would drive other men bonkers...
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Reminder: If you feel like giving me a vote . . .
Time is running out. If you were maybe thinking of giving me a vote for the Top Ten Marriage Blog Contest—which I would be immencely grateful for—now’s your moment. Only two days left.
Click here to vote.
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P.S.
After posting that Naomi Wolf quote am I allowed to say …
I put on a dress today that I haven’t worn since summer. L.A. weather is weird. But when it slipped over my head it looked not so great, kind of like wearing a grocery bag. That’s when I realized what had happened. My tailored dresses no longer fit.
I’m skinny!
Yeah, yeah, I know. I don’t want to buy into...
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“Female fat [as] a moral issue is articulated with words like good and bad. If...”
– Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (via loveyourchaos)
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In Memory of a Good Wife, Elizabeth Edwards →
Excerpt republished from:
Elizabeth Edwards Shared Private Pain With Public
by Mike Baker and Calvin Woodward of the Associate Press
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards lost her hair to cancer, her son to an accident, her husband to another woman.
No wonder she called one memoir “Resilience.” And another “Saving Graces.”
Edwards’ death Tuesday at age 61...
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A Transatlantic Love Stort, Part X: Wedding...
Continued from A Transatlantic Love Story, Part IX.
I’d always loved the song Misty, but it wasn’t the type of weather I wanted to see out my window on the morning of my wedding day.
My grandma hugs me and says, “I liked helping you plan your graduation party a lot more than planning your wedding.” I’m still in my pajamas and I have no idea what she means.
I sit...
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Stalling Love Story
I’m not very good at ending things. It took me something like three years to break up with one boyfriend. My first novel had a piss-poor ending that left no one satisfied, including me. I just lose steam when it comes to the end, and that’s sort of what happened with my Transatlantic Love Story that’s hanging out over there in the side bar. But it’s something else too.
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Cross out what you've done. →
I’m reblogging this via tasteofsomethingsweet. Seems kind of fun. Here we go … probably more than a few secrets revealed:
graduated high school. smoked a cigarette. kissed someone.(apart from family) gotten so drunk you passed out. ridden every ride at an amusement park. collected something really stupid. My mom, sadly, found my French fry collection under my bed when I was five. gone...
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,...”
– James Baldwin (via kari-shma)
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Interviewer: It was nice of [husband] Stieglitz to let you go to New Mexico every summer.
Georgia O'Keeffe: Well listen, he didn't let me go, I just went.
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Happy Chanukah!
This is what you get when a Methodist preacher’s daughter marries a non-practicing Jew. Four Chanukah candles, three birthday candles, some dreidels, a Thai house protector, and Buddha looking on from the corner. Oy!
Ah, well, Chag Sameach anyway! Tomorrow = Correct Candles + Latkes!
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Return of Little Miss Thang
Photo reblogged via Jen but Never Jenn.
I’m so unsettled I don’t even know how to write this. Little Miss Thang just walked right back into the picture and burst my marital bliss bubble.
My husband was supposed to go out with her to an art event tomorrow night, a sort of networking thing for the both of them. Except she decided that she didn’t want to go. She said that they...
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Just in Time for Christmas!
Sometimes I get so excited that I just have to squeal. Yesterday was one of those days. I dropped by one of my favorite wedding blogs (yes, I know, seven years later I am still indulging in wedding DIY, oy) to find that 1) she has gotten married and 2) she started a fabulous new business.
Sara of Thistle and Clovers and her friends have created onesies with the month...