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A Look Ahead: 2011

| January 4, 2011

2010 is officially over now. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about it for months, but life got in the way. It’ll be a bit more concise now. Lucky you. If the second half of 2010 had a theme, it was Challenge is the New Black. A couple of months ago something snapped and [...]

the ghost of lobster dinners past

| December 19, 2008

1993: as near as i can figure, lobster dinners started christmas of my junior year of high school. the original guests included my parents and me. the menu has changed little since that first meal: lobster, baked potato, and a salad, although the salad dropped off in the early 2000′s because it just got in [...]

cold november reign

| October 26, 2008

here’s what’s happening in the next month (in general planning order and including the last week of october): 3+ birthday parties: two dinners, one casino night. (ever wonder why the end of october and the beginning of november is so chock full of birthdays? valentine’s day is appx 38 weeks earlier.) make hella baby food: [...]

2007: in review

| January 1, 2008

so, how’d i do? drink less soda (maybe 1 a day?) well, i’m not sure what “less” was before i got pregnant, but due to pregnancy and breastfeeding, i’ve cut back to 1-2 “doses” of caffeine a day. that’s certainly less than the “triple venti” mornings i used to have. i’d call this one accomplished     [...]

2007 mid-ish year recap

| September 1, 2007

wherein kelly throws herself a whiny pity party and decides upon review that she really doesn’t care about the tense shifting and inconsistent capitalization enough to do anything about it. let’s recap, shall we? January bad: found out my dad’s “spots” were very terminal pancreatic cancer February good: *finally* sold our damn house. bittersweet: found [...]

2007: a look ahead

| January 1, 2007

here’s the things that i’d like to do this year: drink less soda (maybe 1 a day?) drink way more water (some in the form of tea) wean myself mostly off of caffeine by march-ish exercise regularly (once week by march, adding a “once” every week every quarter) read one book a month (pitiful goal, [...]

holiday to do list

| December 25, 2006

things to do on my week off: make this list 12.25 make new years resolution/plan list (that’s right, this list is a meta list) …as long as i do this before 1/1 i’m okay, right? 1.1 start (finish?) the two stories i want to get out of my brain …failed (but totally gonna do this [...]