Category: ranting and raving
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My boss said something the other day that I will add to my list of favorite sayings: "You've done a great job wallpapering the bedroom closet, but the fire that started in the kitchen is now in the living room". It's a perfect analogy for the retail business–keep your head down too long on a…
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I'm one of those people who lives life quite happily without a cell phone. I'm also turning into one of those people who becomes frustrated, annoyed and generally cranky when surrounded by folks chatting, yelling, shouting, babbling into their tiny cell phones. On the return flight, as we taxied to the gate on arrival, seat…
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When I have a bad day, I have a feel-better routine. First step? Stop into the grocery store on the way home from work for the supplies. The supplies? Frozen pizza (the horror!), one gourmet chocolate brownie, a bottle of Framboise and the latest copy of People magazine. It's a recipe for recovery from exhaustion,…
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it'sjustwork.it'sjustwork.it'sjustwork.it'sjustfurniture.it'sjustfurniture.it'sjustfurniture. more wine, please.
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I just spent an hour in the grocery store (could you guess?) and I am in the depths of depression. I usually single-girl shop at the local "gourmet" grocery store and the deli across the street. Portions are reasonable (where else can you buy one pork chop?), the fresh produce is respectable and they have…
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As this subject pertains in a small way to my work, I have to tread lightly here. Let's just say, that for work purposes of the networking/chatting people up nature, I recently attended a local event showcasing the latest in home building and aspirational living. Let's call it SNOT. The grand opening SNOT event was…
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damn you, Rick Steves, and your PBS special on the Cote d'Azur–I'm soooo very frenchie-homesick!!
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It's also the little (to us because we don't pay attention) policies and positions of our current government that gain us such ill-will from other parts of the world, for example, his (GWB) stand on marriage and abstinence over condoms, described in this article from IHT about how even marriage in Africa can kill. grrrr.
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It's alot easier than you'd think to emigrate to Canada.
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Miss Ruby and her playdate, Monsieur Oscar I love you RoobieDoobie, but there is dog hair IN the keyboard of my brand new lovely computer. DOG HAIR. In the keyboard. I can deal with it on the bathroom floor (on every floor truthfully), on the sofa, woven into the handtowels, floating in bunches under the…
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