September 2008

I Did Not Meet My Wine Camp Objections

September 15, 2008

There were 3 things I wanted to accomplish at wine camp. 1. Drink fabulous wine and eat amazing food. 2. Catch up on sleep 3. Stay off the Internet I only accomplished one of these things, and I'm happy to say it was the first one. Friday night the room next door to ours was [...]

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This One Time, At Wine Camp

September 12, 2008

And there is nothing else to say. I'm not bring a laptop and I don't plan to check email. I do plan to be drunk, Lymes disease be damned.

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I’ve Got Bad News, and I’ve Got Bad News, which Would You Like First

September 11, 2008

I'll give you the bad news. Wow, I'm funny. I have lyme disease. Yeah I know, huh? I had the same reaction. But, the vertigo is unrelated. So, I have a really bad disease which requires Cipro like antibiotics and vertigo with no known cause. I'm a medical mystery. But hey, wine camp starts tomorrow. [...]

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I Can’t Stop Crying

September 10, 2008

Rent closed on Broadway, and although I've seen it seen 10 times, I've never seen it there. The last curtain call. Please, go read my tribute.

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O R E H (?) O

September 9, 2008

When I picked Michael up at school yesterday, he was playing with toy Oreos, something I actually remember from my childhood. I asked him what he was playing with and he said, "I don't know Mommy, what are they?" "Oreos." "Orehos?" "What's an Oreho?" "Oreo, it's a cookie, have you really never had an Oreo?" [...]

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When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go into Denial

September 8, 2008

Or, go shopping. I don't want to talk about how I still feel like crap, or that the doctor thinks I have Lyme disease, or that I have to drive an hour to go to a worthless training today for my job, which might be changing (and that, is a good thing.) So, instead, I [...]

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First Week of School

September 5, 2008

Well, we did it, Michael is officially a transitioned preschooler. On the first day when we pulled into the parking lot he said, "Mommy, I'm nervousded." The first day was rough, he cried when I left, and I went for a 2.5 hour walk with one of my friends whose son is also in Michael's [...]

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He’s Giving Hugh Hefner a Run for His Money

September 4, 2008

I have no idea what he is doing with his tongue.

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How Is It Possible I Can Be On Bedrest and Not Pregnant?

September 3, 2008

For the past two days I've either being lying on the couch or lying in bed per doctors orders to curb the vertigo. And I remember this well from being on bed rest when I was pregnant. The mind numbing boredom, the wish to do anything else but lie down. Before, I read and knit, [...]

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7 years

September 2, 2008

How is it possible, that 7 years ago, I walked down a very long aisle to a man who whispered to me, "beautiful doesn't even being to describe how you look?" How is it possible that I stood under a chupa, in front of 200 hundred people, and said "I am my beloved and my [...]

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