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March 25, 2008

Poopy Talk

Okay, this has me a little freaked out. Salon recently published an article titled The bowel movement. Am I just too prissy for all this talk about poo? When my kids were in diapers, dh and I, and even my friends and I (all young moms at the time), used to chat about poo (which we lovingly called "poopy" when emitted from our precious babies' bottoms). Like "oh my goodness, that antibiotic gave my little princess such runny poopy!" Or "my little angel hasn't pooped in two days! I wonder if he's sick?" You know how young parents can be. But now, apparently, the business of our bowels is creeping into everyday conversation, and is even the topic of a popular book. Hmm. 'Nuf said.

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March 21, 2008

Starting Over

When I was a college student in my late teens and early twenties, I used to drive five hours back to my parents' house in South Florida for holidays and long weekends. Although my life was relatively happy in those days, it was also stressful, as the pressure of keeping up good grades, holding down a demanding internship, and searching for a job in a recession-riddled country faced me. In addition, my parents split in those years, and the bitter divorce added even more stress for all of us. On the long drives back home from college and my horrible, first post-college job in Georgia, I would pass the exits for tiny little beach towns, and wonder..."What would it be like to just exit here and start over? To just chuck it all and go somewhere new and start over?"

Of course, these were just fantasies--fleeting, unrealistic fantasies that I never planned to follow through with, even if I could have. But I think most people, at one time or another, have wished to just go somewhere new and start over fresh, minus the baggage that adulthood inevitably brings.

Those days more than 20 years ago came rushing back today when I read this article, Man Auctions His Life, on Reuters Oddly Enough site. It seems a bit extreme, but hey, it's his life. (But not for long...)

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March 12, 2008

Money Talk

I've been thinking a lot about money lately. Mostly because I am trying to figure out how to get more of it so I won't have to go into loan debt in order to put dear daughter through college beginning this fall. Although I haven't quite figured out how to do that besides tightening our belts wherever we can, I did stumble across this article--
Scientists put a price on happiness - msnbc.com. It claims that people are happier with pricier items because they believe the item is of better quality than those that cost less. But I was glad to read that finding a bargain can be linked to happiness too, because I'm all about finding bargains.

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March 06, 2008

This Can't Be Right

I took a quiz to see how normal I am, and this was the result, despite having loads of evidence to the contrary:

You Are Fairly Normal
You scored 55% normal on this quiz

Like most people you are normal in some ways...
But you aren't a completely normal person. You're a little weird too!

Why You Are Normal:

You think fishnet stockings are trashy

You think glasses can make someone more attractive

If you had to, you rather live without music and still have laughter

You would rather be an astronaut than a movie star

You check your daily horoscope


Why You Aren't Normal:

You prefer flat potato chips.

You are no longer with your first love

You rather screw someone over than be screwed over

You prefer non fiction to fiction

You find the Chicken Dance to be the more embarrassing dance
What's Normal About You... And What's Not?

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March 02, 2008

Live Better

So I was poking around the Web the other day, and I kept arriving at sites that were encouraging me to improve my life through a variety of methods. A message from the universe? Coincidence? Who knows. But since, for some reason, my attention has been drawn to these handy ideas, I thought I'd repay the universe by sharing them:

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