Appreciating Charlotte

Charlotte, I hope you like the pic I found from DeviantArt to go with your appreciating you post!  I like LOTR as well.    Thank you in participating in this lil idea I had! For those of you just checking out the blog, in a previous post I invited commentors to write their own self-appreciating [...]

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Appreciation of Me (& You!)

I’m on a posting roll today.    If you haven’t guessed already, I have my own laptop again and it’s helping the posting train get chugging again.  Whooo hooooo!  My wonder-hubby fixed up one of his old laptops for me, since it will be a while more before we can afford to get me a [...]

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Fat Thoughts I Read on Their Faces…

…and then there’s the thoughts they say outloud.  Do you ever just get tired of all of it?  I am so tired of it. Yesterday, hubby and I were invited to see some friends.  In the time I last saw these people, I gained weight.  It’s obvious.  I was a little tired, so hubby went [...]

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Paying Attention To Myself… a breakthrough

Years ago, I read the first half of “The Power of Now” by Eckart Tolle.  I ignored the really weird parts of his book (like how PMS is the result of male aggression vibes on women or something) and just read through his instructions for meditation.  It’s funny how brilliant things come in weird packages, [...]

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Do you really want to hurt me?

It’s around 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, and the only sounds I hear right now are birds chirping. Nice. My husband and little girl are both still sleeping, which is a good thing, because they appear to be sharing a nasty cold. Mr. Rounded has a fever, chills, sniffles and sneezes, while the superheroprincess doesn’t [...]

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I Loathe 12 Step Programs…

I’ve been debating myself on whether or not to take-on that seeming “sacred cow” that is the twelve-steps.  On the very pro-12-step side of my family, they were very clear that I could be KILLING people (yes, killing them) by turning people off to “the program,” as they call it.  The thing is, the years [...]

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Weight Goes Up… Weight Goes Down… Weight Goes Up…

No joke.  I haven’t dieted in forever, but my weight has never seemed to settle… and it is ANNOYING the heck out of me!  Am I the only one going through this? I try to be patient.  I know my body has it’s reasons for gaining and losing weight.  Anti-depressants have had a lot to [...]

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Open Threadiness! 06.26.09

Sorry for the open thread tardiness!  Sharing one computer with computer professional hubby who is just wrapping up some big project (and hence always on the one computer we have that works…) has confused my posting mojo a bit.    Be our guest and have at it! In other news, I still don’t have my [...]

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Call to Chicago Area Cat Lovers!!!

Mr. Orange needs a loving home.  Mr. Orange is what I call this poor little stray that we’ve been feeding for about a month now.  He showed up on our door-step.  He really likes to sit on the porch with Abilene when she’s in her porch crate.  When we first saw him, he was very [...]

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Do They Ever Wonder How It Feels…

… when nothing fits?  It boggles my mind that I can go to a mall that is as huge as Woodfield and still spend hours without finding anything that fits or fits well.  I read somewhere that designers think that if they make clothes for larger women that all the thin women will stop buying their [...]

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