Posts Tagged: 30 Days of Blogs

Yesterday it was my birthday…

posted on 11/04/2010

I hung one more year on the lineI should be depressedMy house is a messBut I’m having a good time… [With my deepest, most sincere apologies to Paul Simon.] Just an update blog because I’ve been missing you guys… Thought I’d tell you why I love November. Elections: I know it’s dorky, but I love […]

Blog theThirtieth

posted on 10/26/2010

So it’s Day 43 of my 30-Day Challenge. So much for the best of intentions; and I guess Morgan Spurlock’s job is safe for now… But here we are nonetheless, at Blog #30. When I started this little assignment for myself, the High Holidays were just drawing to a close and I was still sort […]

A Fantastic Fall Day

posted on 10/25/2010

Nothing deep to report today, just relaxing at the end of a lovely fall day. The weather was perfect today, and we drove to North Georgia to see the beautiful leaves and take MLM to a pumpkin patch. A stop at Greenwood’s in Roswell for some home-cooking out on the porch, and a nap on […]

How to React When I Refer to Myself as a "Fat Girl"

posted on 10/23/2010

You wouldn’t believe how uncomfortable it makes people. Especially skinny people. We’ll be together in some social situation, talking about whatever (often it’s food or dieting or fitness), and I will make a reference to myself as a fat girl. I often do this in an outrageously self-applauding way. For example when someone compliments me […]

The Stages of Weight Loss – #5 (Weight Loss)

posted on 10/20/2010

It starts out with me thinking that my scale is broken. So, I look up the company that makes it and call customer service [because everyone knows that’s my favorite pastime]. CSR: “Thank you for calling Pleasantly Plump Weight Indicator Technologies, How may I help you?” ME: There’s something wrong with my scale.CSR: Could you […]

Isolation and Connection

posted on 10/20/2010

Earlier tonight, I had a nice opportunity to catch up with a colleague I don’t see outside of meetings very often. You know, it’s odd, private practice therapy can be a bit of an isolating profession — one that attracts people who are generally very sociable. I got into this business because I enjoy being […]

Trying to Get the TV to Babysit, But It Shows Up Late and Talks on the Phone the Whole Time…

posted on 10/18/2010

Don’t use the TV as a babysitter. This is one of those rules I always hear thrown around about parenthood. Actually, come to think of it, I hear it less often as a rule and more often as a derisive example of bad parenting that people desperately want to avoid. It’s usually something like, “I […]

Something Near and Dear to My Heart – And How You Can Help

posted on 10/18/2010

I know everyone is super-busy, but please take a moment out of your day to vote for this very important project. Yes, you do have to register with the Pepsi people, but then you can vote for up to 10 different projects each day (and I’d love it if you’d vote for this project more […]

Cobwebs and My Addled Brain (Unrelated, Mostly)

posted on 10/15/2010

First, I have had the heebie-jeebies all day [that’s right, I said heebie-jeebies] after a trip to our basement laundry area this morning. I have noticed in the last few days that the cobwebs have gathered amazingly fast on our new washing machine and hot water heater, both of which were installed within the last […]

Watching Men Come up from the Ground

posted on 10/13/2010

Isn’t this just the coolest thing? Right now I’m enjoying MLM’s morning nap and watching the trapped Chilean miners being rescued one by one. You would think that by the twelfth miner, some of the novelty and emotion of seeing this process would have worn off, but it hasn’t. It’s totally amazing to see someone […]