tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755795417295632442023-11-16T06:41:26.378-05:00will work for shoesSeriously, you can't make this shit up.kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.comBlogger622125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-25034909182873160472013-06-26T19:54:00.000-04:002013-06-26T19:54:02.649-04:00Holy crap, guys!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seven years ago (2006 for those of you who don't want to do the math) my laptop died, and along with it was the novel I was writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was an idiot back then and never backed anything up, so I lost everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took me MONTHS to get over this. I still get teary-eyed thinking about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, the other day I was looking through old emails and I FOUND A DRAFT OF MY NOVEL in an email.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HOLY CRAP, RIGHT???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not the most recent version I had (which was MUCH longer) but it's 182 Word doc pages of something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So of course I started reading it, and rewriting everything in my head. The best part was that technology has advanced so much since then, that some of what I had written is SO out of date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think it's time to dust it off and see if I could make something of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay tuned!</span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-37956705257855063472013-06-23T10:28:00.002-04:002013-06-23T10:28:43.390-04:00not bad for an old lady<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who beat her best time in yesterday's 5K?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS GIRL.</span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-990218788883586202013-06-18T08:47:00.003-04:002013-06-18T08:47:49.257-04:00the demise of Google Reader. what's a girl to do?<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(No, seriously. What should I do?)</span></div>
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While I don't always write blog posts often, it doesn't mean I don't read all of yours!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I usually do it through Google Reader. But it seems that relationship will soon be ending, and there's nothing I can say about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I ask you, my fellow bloggers, what's the best way to keep up with my blogs one Reader goes buh-bye?</span></div>
kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-25064141088565077472013-06-11T09:43:00.000-04:002013-06-11T09:43:30.441-04:00TMI or LOL?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A coworker posted this on Facebook last night:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>(please forgive my kapow-esque anonymity tools, but I don't know how to blur! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>If someone would like to tell me how, thank you!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, then.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-40537230863824097932013-05-30T15:16:00.002-04:002013-05-30T15:16:51.173-04:00enter: old age<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used to think old age was something that just happened gradually over time. But, if you asked me when I felt old, I would adamantly answer: "Sunday, May 26, 2013."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's not my birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or any other milestone in my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's a random Sunday when all of a sudden my body waved the white flag and totally gave up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It started with my fingers on my right hand, which all of a sudden decided to get some type of arthritic pain, and no longer be able to open bottles or jars, or carry heavy pans from the stove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, my back was all like, 'fuck this shit' and gave out when I was lifting the god-damned crock pot out of the sink. It was a sudden pain that left me bent in half, gasping for breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Did I mention this was in the morning of the day we were having 50 people at our house? No? Tiny detail.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then, for the finale, my weird stomach pain came back from the dead. Yep, after a month or so of hibernation, it reared it's ugly head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've officially broken down. I've moved from my thirties to one foot in the grave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's a list of all the things it hurts for me to do:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lie down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Get up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Breathe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sneeze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Move</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Turn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Roll over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Open anything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Close anything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Get dressed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shave my legs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Laugh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I can still write!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hallelujah!</span></div>
kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-81323303894641448712013-03-25T09:44:00.000-04:002013-03-25T09:46:36.211-04:00i don't even play a doctor on TV.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been in and out of doctors' offices for the last two weeks with a mystery illness. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(Now, while that doesn't excuse the fact that I haven't blogged in three months, I'm hoping you'll be so sick with worry over my opening sentence that you'll forgive me. Please? Pretty please?)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(Also? This is a long post. But it's filled with humor, intrigue, me going batshit crazy and a poop chart. Plus I have to make up for three months of not writing.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me start the story by saying I went on a business trip to Arkansas. Yes, this sounds like the beginning of a very bad joke. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'What's in Arkansas?' you might ask. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, farm land, for starters. Oh, and this small company called Walmart. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'What's Arkansas like?' you might ask.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's like a cult. A cult that's worth a gazillion dollars.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have a small office there (like every other company/brand/vendor who wants to do any sort of work with Walmart) so I spent a few days planning promotions for 2014. Brainstorming is fun, so it wasn't a bad trip. Except for the fact that I was sick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And by sick, I mean I had sharp shooting pains in my upper abdomen just under my rib cage that would wake me up in the morning, and flare up the minute I put any type of food or beverage in my mouth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good times. Especially when you're away from home.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I toughed it out, going to the office during the day and holing up with in my glorious hotel room at the Comfort Suites (try and control your jealousy), existing on peanut butter crackers and ginger ale, then treating myself to soup from Panera for dinner (all of which caused me to have pain, but I felt I should put something in my stomach, and when you're alone at a hotel in an unfamiliar place, you go with what you know...or what's directly across the street).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to a walk-in clinic, and the nice doctor told me she didn't know what it was and told me to take Prilosec. Then I came home and went to the doctor who ALSO didn't know what it was, but took blood work. I missed a day or two of work. I lost two pounds (not complaining here). Next up: abdominal ultrasound. Which was – wait for it – totally normal! So then they refer me to a gastroenterologist. And this is where it gets fun.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(This was a very long pre-amble for me to get to the part where I talk about how incompetent the doctors' offices with which I've been dealing are. Thanks for hanging in.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The series of events went like this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wednesday:</b> receive call from primary doctor, asking me to call the gastro office and make an appointment. Told my chart, bloodwork, ultrasound, etc would be faxed over ASAP.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wednesday (five minutes later):</b> I make said appointment for the next day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thursday:</b> Gastro appointment. This is when the doctor and I played 20 questions about my poop. Interesting way to spend an afternoon. Every time I tried to steer her back towards my abdominal pain, she found another fascinating questions. Ooh...then we looked at the poop chart. If you've never had to pick out your poop from a picture chart you should totally try it. It's like identifying a criminal in a police line up, except it's poop, and it's not all that fun.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thursday:</b> Did I mention that my chart from my primary doctor never arrived? So the Gastro Dr had nothing to look at? And their offices were now closed and there was no way to get the charts today. Waste. Of. Time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Friday (10am):</b> Being the good patient that I am, I leave a message at the Gastro office asking if they've gotten my charts, and if they needed my help in obtaining them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Friday (1pm):</b> Receive call from Gastro office (yay!). Woman said she's calling because my primary doctor asked that I come in (WTF?). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "I was there YESTERDAY. I already came in!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Oh, okay. Sorry."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "Don't you see that in my chart?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Do you live on Meadow Road?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "Not in two years."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Oh, I see. Looks like you have TWO charts here. Let me merge </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">them. And look at that! Your files DID come over from your other doctor </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yesterday - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they must've gotten put in the wrong chart."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "Can you please make sure the doctor sees my other chart???"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Will do."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Friday (4pm):</b> Receive a call from Gastro office (um, yay?) from the assistant with whom I left the message in the morning.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Unfortunately, we didn't receive your charts from your doctor. Would </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you mind helping us out and calling them?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (you have GOT to be freaking kidding me!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "Seriously? I got a call from Michelle at your office, telling me I have </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">two charts and that the test results ARE here, WERE here yesterday. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you please connect with her???"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Two charts? Have you been her before?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "Obviously."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> HER: "Maybe it was under a different date of birth?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (oh yes, that's it. the last time I came I gave you a different date of birth, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just for ha-has)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ME: "Can you please be sure my doctor sees the chart so she can review </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the tests and call me back with next steps?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And...no call back after that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I was that bad at my job, I would be fired. And I can't waste any more time out of work at doctors' offices. It's ridiculous!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am DONE with the doctors. And since they've ruled everything out, I'll diagnose myself: crazy stomach.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(I'm feeling a little bit better, btw. Just thinking about going through the poop chart with the doctor suddenly makes me feel better.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Spring, Happy 2013, Happy Back to Blogging!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-58539864683883099842012-12-31T07:13:00.003-05:002012-12-31T07:13:48.600-05:00wait...what???<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to sound like a cliché for just a moment here but...where the hell did this year go?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember it being January 2 and I was heading back to my old job after my 18-month hiatus. Then Mr. KK and I were in Puerto Rico for, like, 5 minutes. Then I was eating my body weight in lobster on our family vacation. Then the house was filled with family for Thanksgiving. And now here I am, sitting in a living room void of Christmas decorations (we got a little zealous during the snowstorm the other day) getting ready to live the last day of the year.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2013 Wish List:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Run the annual Labor Day 5k and beat my time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A BIG vacation for me and Mr. KK.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. KK (finally) makes the butcher block cutting board for our kitchen island, so we can get rid of the makeshift ghetto plywood counter top we've been using.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lose those last 5 pounds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be more selfish at work, and stick to my "work/life" balance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cook one new recipe a month.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep at the gym.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, of course, be better about blogging.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy New Year, blog world!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Catch you on the flip side!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Do they still call it "Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve" even though Dick Clark is hosting the big countdown in the sky?</i></span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-52887185014587828842012-11-27T13:52:00.001-05:002012-11-27T13:52:02.409-05:00kk's favorite things<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oprah isn't the only one who can have favorite things! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>(Though she can still be the only one who </i>gives away<i> her favorite things...this girl hasn't won Powerball just yet.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's that time of year...when everyone under the sun puts out their Gift Guides.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've done the due diligence and scoured them all, and have come up the best gifts that are on <strike>my</strike> every girl's list.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(this could be on the list because my immersion blender died right before I was going to puree the soup for Thanksgiving dinner. this is one of those tools that you don't use all the time, but when you need it, it's awesome.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mustaches are everywhere, yeah yeah yeah. For the record, I stole a beer glass from a bar with a mustache on it WAY before they were a thing. This 'stache-decorated iPhone case is a 'must'! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't actually want this, considering the "Connecticut" pan is $250 and barely fit a fried egg. But how cool are these???</span></div>
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kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-45545751194354002642012-11-24T08:39:00.002-05:002012-11-24T08:39:15.904-05:00A blog post 20 years in the making.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last night was my 20-year high school reunion. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know if I would have gone unless my friend D hadn't wanted to go. So, being the good sport that I am, I agreed to attend. And, since Mr. KK went to the same high school, he was coming too. <i>(And, he would probably know more people than I did.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some people looked EXACTLY the same. It was as if their yearbook pictures popped off the page and morphed into actual humans. Others, I didn't even recognize (mostly the guys, some of whom had puffed up from drinking and possibly eating other classmates).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't really keep in touch with people from high school, so after the "what have you been up to for 20 years?" question, the conversation lacked a little bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Social media has definitely changed reunions. Some of my favorite quotes of the night:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Hey! Your facebook posts crack me up!"</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And what was the million dollar question of the night? Well, it pertained to pushing offspring from your vagina. Some of those conversations went like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After reading my questionnaire, it seems besides my new and improved hair since high school, not much has changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First, my handwriting is exactly the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">QUESTION: What will you be doing in 10 years?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ANSWER: married and working in Advertising. <i>Check!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">QUESTION: Who are your best friends?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ANSWER: Well, of the 10 people I listed, 8 of them I hadn't spoken to since college. 6 of them were there last night. All 10 of them I probably won't talk to for another 20 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ANSWER: White Cabriolet Convertible. I never got that car, but I DO drive a Volkswagen. <i>Half check!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Technically, I didn't STAY in my hometown. I moved to Boston. And the question doesn't ask if I </i>currently <i>lived in my hometown. So...check!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">QUESTION: Favorite food?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ANSWER: Cheese. <i>Check! Check!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ANSWER: My Two Dads and Blossom. <i>Hey, it was the nineties!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My contribution to the time capsule was a mix tape. (Again, it was the nineties!) It was a tape that my best friend and I had put together and listened to that whole following summer before heading off the college (where we would realize we were different people and then never speak to each other again. Anyone noticing a trend here?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brown Eyed Girl</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>D:</b> "Ohmygod! You put in a tape! Can we listen to it on the way home?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>KK:</b> "Um, no. My car doesn't have a cassette player. We may never hear this tape again."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oddly, though, if I had put in a VHS tape, <i>that </i>we could have watched. <i>(Don't ask.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I found one letter in the time capsule addressed to me, and it was from and ex-boyfriend. Mr. KK got a lot of miles out of that one, continually referencing his "nemesis". It was bordering on trying to be profound and referencing song lyrics and totally all high-schooly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I was right: Mr. KK talked to more people than I did.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Double- and triple-checking the house doors.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beeping the car alarm six times. Walking ten feet and asking, "Did I beep it?"</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I like to think it's an endearing habit that Mr. KK finds totes adorable*.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last night, in the middle of the night, our house alarm went off.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Holy crap.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr. KK ran to the keypad and said, "The motion detector in the basement made it go off."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Holy fucking shit.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then Mr. KK shut the alarm and cancelled the call to the emergency service, told me he'd be right back, and LOCKED ME IN THE BEDROOM.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Are you fucking kidding me???</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I heard him rustling around the kitchen (getting a knife?) and then open the basement door and slowly make his way down the creaky stairs. What if a murderer was waiting for him? What if they put a chloroform cloth over his nose and mouth? What if...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>And then I fell asleep.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I fell asleep when there was a possible axe murderer in my house, and my husband might be walking into his trap.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It seems I'm so incredibly exhausted from work, that my neurosis are cured.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For the time being, anyway.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>*This may be my misperception.</i></span></div>
kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-66988786383428297702012-11-12T13:22:00.003-05:002012-11-12T13:22:42.653-05:00i'm a salty & sweet whore<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Perhaps not a full-blown whore. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe more like a two-bit harlot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anywho, I'm a sucker for anything salty and sweet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">M&M's pretzel.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Special K sweet & salty popcorn chips.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mini ice cream sandwiches made with Ritz crackers, vanilla ice cream and caramel. (OMG you have to go home and make these. They're the best white trash dessert you'll ever have. Recipe below!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My new obsession:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Starbucks Salted Caramel Cake Pops.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Admittedly, I've only had them once. And only after I heard them described as "crack on a stick".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And if eating crack on a stick is wrong, I don't want to be right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">White Trash Ice Cream Sandwiches</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ritz crackers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">vanilla ice cream</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Using a tablespoon, spoon out vanilla ice cream and place onto a ritz cracker, being careful not to press to hard and break the cracker.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Using a teaspoon, put a bit of caramel on a second ritz cracker.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Put the caramel to the ice cream and make a sandwich.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They're messy, but amazing.</span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-84862440900018337562012-11-09T07:54:00.001-05:002012-11-09T07:54:47.823-05:00nablopomo FAIL<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Apparently "blog every day the month of November" apparently means "write a blog post EVERY SINGLE DAY for the ENTIRE month of November".</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I already messed this up.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How about this: you might not get posts every day, but you'll get them as often as I can.</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Deal?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Work is crazy and I have a wedding to attend this afternoon.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I'll leave you with one of my favorite signs in Boston:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Friday!</span></div>
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kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-50268098718413051432012-11-07T05:50:00.000-05:002012-11-07T05:50:05.567-05:00election day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For the first time ever, I voted in a Presidential election.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(insert your shocked faces here)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know. I know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's my civic duty.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can have a voice.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can help make a change.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm just not that into politics.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But in the back on my mind I felt that if I voted, I would maybe, just maybe have something to do with the removal of political commercials on TV, signs on lawns*, and posts in my Facebook feed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Girls, looks like you'll have control of your vaginas for another four years!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>*in the aftermath of hurricane sandy, people somehow lost fences, trees, lawn furniture...but somehow those god-awful signs were never ripped out of their lawns!</i></span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-72507107688416867972012-11-05T21:43:00.001-05:002012-11-05T21:43:13.464-05:00perfect fall snack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr. KK and I enjoy spending time at this little craft beer and bistro place down the street from our house. Not only do they have an impressive beer list, they actually have</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>really good</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">food.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of our favorite small plates are their fried cumin-spiced fried chick peas. They so crunchy and delicious that they're completely addictive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In true KK fashion, I've recreated this small plate at home; baking the chick peas instead of frying them, making them a healthy snack.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u>Ingredients:</u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2 cans chick peas, drained and rinsed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2 Tbsp olive oil</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1 Tbsp cumin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1 Tbsp paprika</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Preheat oven 400 degrees.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Place rinsed chick peas on paper towels on a baking sheet to dry them. Once dry, throw away paper towels.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a bowl combine olive oil, cumin and paprika. Pour in chick peas and stir until coated. Toss with salt.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pour chick peas onto the baking sheet in a single layer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bake 35-40 minutes until dried and crispy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(keep and eye on them, sometimes they cook quickly. and you may hear them popping!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd like to thank Hurricane Sandy for me being late to the party for NaBloPoMo this year.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by Sandy. I can't believe the devastation and destruction I'm seeing on TV.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our brush with Sandy resulted in losing power for a few days. They were the longest three days of my life. I'm not a roughing-it kind of girl, so put me in a house with no power or access to anything electronic and you'll have one bat-shit crazy girl by the end of the day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh, and my office was closed as well with the servers and email down.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My days went something like this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ask divine beings for our power back.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Keep wood on the fire for warmth and light.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eat some more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cart every electronic we own to my parents' house to charge.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Boil water to wash dishes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Drink and eat again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Go to sleep at 8:30.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wake up at 5:30am and start all over again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some super exciting days.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So without power, not only did I forget to start NaBlo, I didn't even realize that it was November.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But here I am. And you got me starting today until November 30!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Teaser! Things to look forward to in this month's posts: a wedding, a senior bus trip to the outlets, Thanksgiving and my high school reunion.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last week my 92-year old Grandfather has a small procedure done. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The doctor, who thought it prudent to not let the 92-year old that the mass on his kidney was cancerous, told my Grandfather that he was having a polyp removed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This seemed to satisfy my Grandfather and so into surgery he went, and out he came...with a catheter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, speaking from experience, a catheter isn't the most pleasant thing on the planet (nor in a bar, or at a restaurant), but it doesn't hurt. It can be slightly uncomfortable at times, but mostly it's just cumbersome. (And uncool.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But when you're an old man who pretty much sits in front of the TV all day, it shouldn't really impede on your lifestyle.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unless, of course, you're my Grandfather.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My mother, who was in charge of taking care of her father (my grandfather), was told by the doctor that the catheter could come out Friday or Saturday. But when she called, she was told the doctor was "unreachable". For days. (Also uncool.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Sunday, I went over to visit my Grandfather to see how he was doing. I brought him a pumpkin pie because, really, who doesn't love pumpkin pie? He's in the back room so I yell out, "How are you doing today?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To which he responds, "LOUSY!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh boy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Turns out, his catheter started leaking. It wasn't draining in the bag, it was draining onto the couch where he was sitting. Or on the floor when he stood up. Apparently they had already called my mother, who was on her way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And here's how the rest of the afternoon went:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KK calls the doctor's office to talk to the Emergency Answering Service and is told the doctor on call would be paged and would call us back.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This conversation took place:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MOM: "This is a mess. What are we going to do?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KK: "We'll fix it. We may have to bring him to the ER to have them fix it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MOM: "Great. Now we'll be spending the whole day in ER."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">GRANDFATHER: (shouting from the other room, oblivious to our conversation) "Should we can an ambulance?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MOM and KK (in unison): "NO!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KK calls the doctor's office AGAIN because it has been 30 minutes and no call from the Doctor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Doctor calls back finally. My mother must not like what he's saying to her because she makes a face and tells him to hold on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MOM: "He said we should try to take the catheter out ourselves. I don't think I can do this, KK. YOU'RE going to have to do it."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KK: "No way. You can totally do it. It's not hard at all, I did mine when I had one. It's easy, the doctor will walk you through it."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(NOTE: It's not that I couldn't do it, but I didn't think the place for me was all up in my grandfather's kibbles and bits, you know? Plus, my mom had been caring for him for days and had already gone through that embarrassment. Why put both of us through it?)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And so, with me on the phone with the Doctor calling out directions, my Grandmother fetching a pair of scissors, and my mother kneeling down in front of my Grandfather's private parts asking "Is it <i>this</i> tube?? Is it <i>this</i> tube??", we removed my 92-year old grandfather's catheter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's out!" I told the doctor. "I feel like I should hand out cigars."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I'm still getting dressed with the regulars, there are some new, er, faces each morning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And each one is just as crazy as the next lady.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of my favorites:</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The twenty-something girl who does a full-on 'sweat like it's your job' workout, then goes and gets dressed for work without </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>showering</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. She uses more baby powder to soak up the sweat in rather interesting places that she should take stock out in Johnson & Johnson.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favorite three runners are still there every morning. Newsflash there: one of them switched from Granny panties to a thong!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never a dull moment in the locker room!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like I went to bed and it was warm and summery, and I work up and it was cool and crisp.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here are some of my favorite Fall finds.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The smooth, creamy caramel of these booties make them hard to resist.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/vince-camuto-dira-bootie-online-exclusive/3367310?origin=keywordsearch&contextualcategoryid=0&fashionColor=&resultback=2606">Vince Camuto</a>, exclusively at Nordstrom</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Fall it's all about COLOR. I'm loving these deep violet jeans from <a href="http://www.loft.com/loft/product/product%3A285760/LOFT-trendsetting-tee-082812/Color-Pop-Curvy-Skinny-Jeans/285760?colorExplode=false&skuId=11735274&catid=catl000015&productPageType=fullPriceProducts&defaultColor=1624">Loft</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Essie's fall collection of polishes are gorge. Loving this burgundy shade.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Accessorize like it's your job. Try a snakeskin cuff that's part sexy part biker girl.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shopping hands-free is the only way to. This pewter messenger bag from Ralph Lauren lets you shop with ease.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every year Target comes out with one piece that's totally fabulous. For me, it's this orange blazer. Perfect with jeans and boots.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These t-shirts from Loft are so cute. I love this one with the little dog on it. They're perfect to layer under cardigans, or the little orange blazer above.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and on the list of "okay to eat" foods.</span><br />
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<br />kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-27280435112361312052012-07-06T21:54:00.001-04:002012-07-06T21:54:25.487-04:00feel free to bestow sympathy on me. i'm not shy.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First of all, each one of you that told me that, "it's different now!" to get me to come back to my current company, is TOTALLY a liar.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not mad at you, and I don't want to leave my job, but I felt the need to point out that each of you is going to hell for telling a BIG. FAT. LIE.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So continuing the "hey, you lied to me!" theme, I wanted to share my calendar from Monday. (While you may have no idea what the meetings mean, you can count, so you'll be astute enough to see that when you book me in not one, not two but THREE meetings at the same time, I will only be at one of them. I'm no sheep, and they haven't figured out how to clone me yet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you ever dreaded a Monday, this is a good reason:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I went to Target twice last week. And each time was not without a story.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I went to Target to <i>browse</i>. Do you know how dangerous that is for me? I spent an hour walking around, picking things up, taking illegal pictures of shelf sets and signage for work. I ended up spending only $3.17. I was so proud I put it on Facebook. I mean, who spends only three dollars in Target???</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>(THIS GIRL!)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A mysterious stomach bug ripped through the office on Friday. I was the fourth victim to leave work early, around 4pm. But of course, there was a ton of traffic, and it was taking forever to get home. I went from thinking: "Please let me make it home in time!" to "I'm not going to make it home in time!" in a matter of minutes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I did what any self-respecting female would do: got off the highway and drove to the nearest Target.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And threw up 7 times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of my finer moments, for sure.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(And, for the record, I spent ZERO dollars in that trip. Another first.)</span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-49271081392022138002012-06-16T15:55:00.001-04:002012-06-16T15:55:51.501-04:00please file under: are you effing kidding me?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Two Fridays ago, I took my team out for lunch. It was a glorious, sunny afternoon, so why not spend $200 on drinks and lunch, seated on the patio of a hip new restaurant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had two of my team members in my car with me as I navigated the large, public lot. I pulled into a space behind the church and put the car in park.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As we were gathering our things, I noticed the car in the spot in front of me was slowly rolling backwards.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I leaned on the horn. BEEEEP!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the car kept on coming.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh my god, he's still coming!" one girl yells.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Why isn't he stopping?" the other says.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I think he's going to hit us!" I say.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then he rolled right into my car.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After he hit my car, he turned around and glared at me through his back window.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Annnnnd </i>here we go.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The man that gets out of the car is in his late fifties or so, and he's shaking his head in disgust.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I open my car door and step one foot out and stand up. Somehow thinking that my door will protect me from any harm.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He gives me a, <i>'Why the hell did you just drive into me? Hmph. Women drivers!' </i>kind of look.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Um, YOU hit ME."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I did?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Yes. That's why your car is half in my parking space."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I didn't even realize I was rolling."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Yes. That's why I was beeping at you like a lunatic."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then inspects my car. He barely tapped me, as he must have been in neutral, but we both go through the motions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Did I do that?" he asks, pointing to an imperfection on the front of my car that I would love to use this 'mishap' as an excuse to get fixed on someone else's dollar.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"No, you didn't." <i>(See God? I'm a good person.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Well, I'm awfully sorry." And he starts to walk away.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Do you think you can move your car back up into your own parking space?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He obliges and walks into the church.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I take a picture of his license plate, just in case.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's a good thing you didn't say anything bad to him," says one girl. "He was wearing a shirt that said something about killing people."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hey, no one ever said I was stupid.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because it's so nice out my attention span is not up to par, so instead of a poetically written long post, I have some snippets that should get you through your Friday.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We went to a beer fest in Boston last weekend. For 3.5 hours we drank our way around the World Trade Center. 100 craft brewers, 560 beers (or something like that, I lost count after my 7th double IPA). After the beer fest - because we're old - we knew that we had to keep drinking or we'd go to sleep. So off to two more beer bars it was! By the end of the night, I looked like this:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To pay for my beer <strike>addiction</strike> affinity, I have come up with the next BIG IDEA for a tv show. It's a take-off on Hoarders, except it's about CAR Hoarders. I found the first person to feature on this new series at my local grocery store:</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a year's worth of fast food bags, containers and food particles</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">an unhealthy number of stuffed animals</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a collection of paper that when added up could rival the number of trees in the Redwood Forest</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I confirmed yesterday what I've known for years: I HATE linen. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sure, it's a cool option in the summer heat, but so are skirts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday I went shopping during the afternoon (I got to leave the office in the middle of the day! I know, <i>right</i>???) And against my better judgement, I tried on a pair of white linen pants. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You know what you can't see in this online photo of the pants? That when you put them on, you can see your pubic hair through them. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now go and drink too much beer and wear see-through pants.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-14790782752228256392012-06-07T09:48:00.000-04:002012-06-07T09:48:02.524-04:00is all stress created equal?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The other afternoon I was lunch with some coworkers, welcoming a new hire. We were seated at a newer hot spot, and the service couldn't have been slower.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The problem with lunching in Westport," I said to the group, "is that they assume everyone is a Westport Mommy who doesn't work and has all day to sit here and eat lunch because her Nanny is entertaining the kids."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My coworker – a hard-working VP (who happens to have a Nanny) – replied, "I've learned that everyone has their stressors."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Silently I agreed with her - to a point. I have all the respect in the world for Stay At Home Moms...it's a ridiculously hard job that I'm not sure I could ever do. Their harried days make new business pitches and cross-country travel seem like a cake walk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She continues, "Compare our jobs to people fighting cancer. Don't our stresses seem silly?" </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, of course they do. Worrying about getting a QR code approved pales in comparison to waiting to hear about life-threatening test results. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>I want to tell her that I held a full-time job AND fought cancer, but she doesn't know that and doesn't really need to. And I don't feel like derailing the conversation right now, especially with a new hire.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not talking about people who were unfortunately laid off or searching for work, and stressing about making ends meet. I'm talking about the women who live in affluent communities, who don't work OR have children. Who spend their days on the Avenue or attending fund-raising benefits. Are their stressors the same?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"My cousin's wife doesn't work," another coworker piped up, "and they don't have kids yet. She mostly plays tennis every day with her friends, and is always complaining about how she doesn't like the tennis balls one lady brings, how they don't bounce well off her racket, and how she can't always find a playing partner. And she's always SO busy. It's kind of crazy."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Those aren't <i>stresses</i>," I calmly reply. "They're called <i>'white people problems'</i>."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875579541729563244.post-13650021331761434092012-05-31T10:27:00.000-04:002012-05-31T10:27:27.534-04:00burying the lead.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had this text conversation with Mr. KK this morning:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh, and I started my novel.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(finally!)</span>kkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12504971621506495981noreply@blogger.com0