If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Okay, so today I was gonna participate in a “serious” blog carnival hosted by a really cool British expat pastor guy named Peter Pollock. I like what he writes; it always makes you think. Anyway, his carnival today has a [...]

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Do you know what a “meme” is? I had a rough idea of what it means in the blogging world. But for the sake of thorough research, I looked it up in Wikipedia.
My head exploded. No seriously. Read just the first paragraph:
A meme (pronounced /?mi?m/, rhyming with “cream”[1]) is a postulated unit or element of [...]

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And yet ANOTHER way for me to bring the conversation around to bodily functions. I swear, I didn’t even try this time.
So anyway, my fellow former Cali girl Wendy at Weight What? participated in a gr8 meme full of 8s. And since I’m totally l8 in getting a blog post out and, as f8 would [...]

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Inadequate.
Not enough.
That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. I don’t have enough…
time                            brainpower
self-discipline        selflessness
courage                              confidence
I’m not organized enough. I’m not loving enough.
I’m not content enough.

Just. Not. Enough.
I’ve heard it said that if [...]

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What? Don’t get the obscure “3-2-1 Penguins!” reference?
Listen, it’s Spring Break here.
Between the feeding and the cleaning and the fighting and the entertaining and the furniture scaling, I’ve had virtually no time to even look at the computer.
Then today (Tuesday) all my colleagues at Fellowship of the Traveling Smarty Pants decided that an irreverent post [...]

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You might have noticed that I’ve gone missing these past two weeks. Well. I have a lot of legitimate reasons, let me tell YOU. Such as a new blog administrator gig. For actual dollars and everything.
But the main one? Ooooh! Shiny!
In other words, I got distracted. Then I got out of the habit of blogging [...]

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That’s what the counter staff shout at you at the Varsity, an Atlanta landmark restaurant.

You’re standing there at a 500-foot-long counter (at least that’s the way I remember it…), with 92 counter staff. And every one of them who makes eye contact with you shouts, “What’ll ya have?!”
I’ll tell you, it’s intimidating while you’re trying [...]

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You might have noticed that I haven’t been around much in the past few days.
Didn’t notice? Well, it’s a good thing I don’t get some sick self-esteem boost from having your approval, or I’d be REALLY bummed.
{sniff}
Anyway, I have been a little AWOL. I’ve had to skip personal responses to my blog comment section. I [...]

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TO DO LIST FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
DAY:
Go to kids’ school for “Hat Party” where kids get honored for all the reading they’ve done in a month.
Wonder how I’d feel about wearing a paper-thin plastic “construction” hat with reading stickers on it if I was 11.
Rejoice that I will never again be 11. Or 16 [...]

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At this moment I’m sitting on my couch, in dog-hair-covered yoga pants and a T-shirt. I can hear said dog snoring on the floor next to me. Even as she sleeps, a cloud of fur billows up from her body. I watch it float away and distribute itself evenly on every surface in the house.
Also [...]

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