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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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Howdy Y’all! Didja miss me? With three kids home all day every day for another week, I’ve been a little busy… Taking kids out to spend their Christmas money. Eating Christmas candy. Being mocked by my new Wii Fit. (Skinny digital trainer chick: “Maybe balance just isn’t your forte. Work every day on the easier [...]

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Hey, my blog may be down a little during the afternoon on Tuesday, December 9. But it’s for a good reason — I’m moving! This URL  and all permalinks will still actually point to my blog, but the main web address will become http://redclaydiaries.com (a self-hosted wordpress blog). I’ll write a post asking you to [...]

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I have discovered the proverbial blog manna from blog heaven: The Bloggy Giveaway Carnival From what I understand, four times a year all them fayn-cee blogxperts get together and decide to put on a show. A get-free-stuff-for-doing-almost-nothin kind of show. (My favorite kind.) Seriously, if you click the button below it’ll take you to the [...]

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I must start this post with a rant: Have I mentioned that I love fall weather? Well, I do. It’s my favorite season for weather. I’m pretty sure I haven’t shared how I feel about fall allergies. I hate them. Hate. Them. For example, today is gor-ge-ous: 70 degrees, sunny, and breezy. And for me, [...]

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Something unexpected and kind of cool has been happening with me lately. I keep making friends in cyberspace. And isn’t that just the kind of stuff you’re s’posed to blog about? I think so. Some backstory: I’ve never had a lot of friends. Growing up, I was painfully shy and tended to have – at [...]

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After a month and a half of regular blogging, I think it’s about time I made a proper blogroll. Since I’m a new blogger – and a new blog reader – I can’t claim to have found every great blog out there. But with all the time I spend procrastinating surfing the internet, I’ve found [...]

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