I love… Running. Winning Scrabble games. Clif Z-bars. The French language. The field of medicine. Walking through crunchy leaves on a fall day. Miniature things. Writing lists on Post-It notes. Beautiful photography. Witty sarcasm. Watching Saturday Night Live. Glancing at amusing magazine headlines while in line at the grocery store. Irony. When people properly spell [...]
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Have you ever been so certain of something, you’re literally 99.99% sure? Right now, I’m 99.99% sure this stick of gum tastes good. I’m 99.99% sure it’s 70-something degrees Fahrenheit in this room. I’m 99.99% sure my dog is laying in the living room (and I’m looking right at her). Those 99.99% certainties are much [...]
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I’ve had a revelation! A revelation, I tell you! My Back-to-Basics blender - the one I believed for the longest time couldn’t crush ice - has officially crushed ice! You can’t believe how exciting this is for a girl who had all but given up on her bladed kitchen appliance. It made my day. I’ve long been wary [...]
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Have you seen those commercials for 5-Hour Energy? You know, the 2 fluid ounce container filled with a potent blend of B vitamins intended to serve as an afternoon pick-me-up? I regularly watch my favorite shows on Hulu, and let me tell you, I am sick and tired of hearing about this 5-Hour Energy stuff. “Hours of [...]
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I’m getting anxious for fall to arrive. I cannot wait for the spectacular running weather, the crunchy sunburnt leaves, the college football season, the pumpkin baked goods, and the tasty limited edition of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spiced Latte. For me, autumn holds many great memories of summersaulting through raked leaves and getting crunchy bits of dead [...]
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Surprises. They can be good, or bad. Like this morning, when the forecast changed to predict even hotter temperatures tomorrow, it was a bad surprise. Generally it’s a bad surprise when the weatherman or weatherwoman changes their mind. (I still think the local weatherman, with all of his terrible meteorological predictions, is out to get me. But that’s [...]
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