Some conversations…

Driving in the car with J and the girls. Red pipes up from the back seat, “Hey! We’re kind of like a family!”
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J says to me a while ago, when we first met, “You’re way smart. You’re much smarter than me! And I’m not that smart!”
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Upon waking at J’s house at 5am to two alarms [...]

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It’s over. It’s really over.

I spent the last four months or so, picking my way through the entire Sex in the City series.
I never watched it before and when the movie came out, I realized I may be missing something.
I Netflixed it, slowly but surely.
And it has now come to a close.
What’s left? What’s left, you say?
Well, the movie [...]

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Prices

$3.99 a pound for lobster down the street.
$2.46 a gallon for gas on the other side of town.
$1800.00 for a flight to see J when he goes away in December.

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Free Labor

I haven’t started my kids on an allowance yet, or making them do chores around the house for money.
Why? You ask?
Because they love chores for the sake of having chores.
Seriously.
As kids, my sister and I were worked to death (not really, but we did alot of chores)
We had to weed the garden and pick vegetables, [...]

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N-Y-C….too busy to craaaazy…..

Thirty-six hours in NYC is just NOT enough.
First, J and I left town Thursday morning and drove to Sacaucus, NJ, where we got an AFFORDABLE hotel. It was SO easy to get into the city, but best of all, the hotel was so great, best hotel I have stayed in in a long long time.
And [...]

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will you clean out the tub and draw me a bath?

I loved baths as a kid and would sit with a novel and read for hours, soaking and basking in the quietness and warmth and stories, for a long time each night.  J takes baths and I admire that he does it, enjoys it, takes care of himself to relax in that way, because for [...]

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Drawing the line

I can’t stop laughing, at how I drew the line with having “the game” on while getting romantic.
And how the next day, when things were getting a bit frisky and “Terms of Endearment” was on, I didn’t have the heart to ask him to turn off the television.

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music on the ipod

I have no idea why, but this is the tune I am digging at the moment. 
On my walk today, I kept hitting the “back” button to replay it. 
Over and over and over again.

It totally cracks me up but made me walk with a skip in my step and I felt all [...]

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Wonderbra…oh not so wonderful

As I was getting dressed this morning, and putting on my bra, I started to laugh, thinking about last Saturday evening. It was J’s last night playing at the piano bar for the season.  It was lovely and full of fans and friends and people who have known and loved him. We ate dinner, spontaneously, [...]

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Money.

Money is annoying. Every few weeks I sit down with my folder of bills and invoices. I pay my bills and send out my invoices. Sometimes they are second invoices to a client. Sometimes a third. I have one that I’ve been billing for $93, every month, since last December. (that’s December 2007!!!)
I get mad [...]

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