1. My oldest is a total carnivore. Her favorite food, at 6 yrs old, is sausage. Today, we drove past Hardee’s and she saw a sign advertising a double sausage breakfast biscuit. “DOUBLE SAUSAGE. DOUBLE SAUSAGE. Did you SEE that, Mama!!” I’ve never heard her so excited.
2. I stepped on glass the other night. That’s […]

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I’ve had the good fortune to meet some very cool people via twitter. We met up Thursday night (tweetup!) at a local restaurant and discovered that  not only are we all awesome online, we’re a lot of fun when we gather around drinks and apps. Call me an internet geek if you will, but twitter […]

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The good news? I get a week off!
The bad news? It’s because of work furloughs.
The really bad news? I get to spend that week tending to my 5 yr. old, who will be having her adenoids taken out.
As concerned as I am about her going through surgery, not to mention the expense of that combined […]

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Holy cuteness, Batman. Is that not the most adorable bag/towel combo? I desperately want to win it because the husband won’t be joining us at the beach this year for the full week. Instead, I will have to go it alone ( with the help of my parents, sister, brother-in-law. OK, I’ll have plenty of […]

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   So I get into the check-out line at Target last night ( with my five items) and wait my turn until she is finished with another customer’s purchase. I put the little bar on the conveyor belt, to denote the start of a new customer’s purchase, and load my book, some medicine, a pair […]

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Yesterday I picked up two first-place awards from our state press association, one for excellence in coverage of my assigned area ( beat reporting) and the other for a series of articles that I, along with another reporter, wrote on the impact of growth on infrastructure  ( that is a mouthful, eh?).
The awards ceremony was […]

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