Me and My Mouse-Killing Hero on Memorial Day
I'm learning we'll do scary things if there's a trusted pair of arms waiting for us in the water.

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This Friday Clayton and I are joining our friend Nathan in the Picnic Island Adventure Run.
If you’re like me, all naive and innocent, you might think that sounds like a big ball of fun. So then maybe you’d sign up for it less than a week in advance. And then maybe you’d actually try to physically run 3.3 miles and end up wheezing on a bench next to the sidewalk you’d attempted to conquer.
Ok, maybe you wouldn’t do that. But …

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For one of my classes we are supposed to come in ready to examine our virtual selves with the eyes of a potential employer. When I first read this assignment, a tiny wave of worry made me do a quick internal survey about the contents of my facebook page and this blog. It didn’t take more than a few seconds, though, to realize that I was a rather poor excuse for a state university undergrad in terms of the number …

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There hasn’t been a whole lot of free time to blog in my schedule these days. The new puppy has completely ransacked my former routine (not to mention one rug and a few socks) and requires attention almost every minute that I’m home. I knew he was going to be a lot of work, but this has been a whirlwind, to say the least. Clayton has been so busy with his new clinical rotation that he hasn’t been able to …

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Late Saturday morning Clayton and I were lounging lazily on the couch watching Animal Planet. We became very entrenched in a show about giant pandas. It revolved around two pandas who had a whole host of volunteers monitoring them twenty-fours a day to answer the classic question: will they or won’t they. While I was watching, I couldn’t help but remember my New Year’s resolution to start volunteering at the Humane Society. (OK, it wasn’t so much a resolution as …

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If you spend $60 or more at Victoria’s Secret, you get a free box of Godiva chocolates.
I’m just saying…those 4 milky, delicious, mouth-watering treats might just be worth all that lace and self-loathing.

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The Super Bowl was here. Celeb-Watch ’09 turned out to be a big fat bust. I didn’t see one person who was even remotely famous. I was tempted to walk around Saturday night with my hood over my head and big sunglasses on and just see if heads would turn. Maybe they’d think I was Winona Ryder (after giving up cigs and consequently gaining 40 pounds). Or if I cocked my head just so maybe I could be mistaken for …

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I was only on USF’s campus for a grand total of 20 minutes, but it was plenty of time to remind me of all those irritating things I absolutely do not miss from being the new kid at college:Parking. Parking. Parking.Crossing the same street three times before finally turning my hand drawn map the right way to point me in the proper direction of the building I am looking for.I forgot just how hot it gets walking around in Florida. …

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Last night I stayed up until 1am finishing the second book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. As one of my friends put it, being a tween is awesome. And the somewhat embarrassing part was that I wasn’t staying up to finish the book because I wanted to finally have it off my conscious and move on; I was up reading because I could not put the book down. Those were real tears streaming down my face when …

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I had a very extraordinary few hours yesterday tucked into an otherwise ordinary day. I immediately wrote 2 pages about what had happened, and to spare anyone with feeling like they have an obligation to read all that, I am only going to share a few excerpts here.
Not even getting called to questioning for jury selection seemed unusual. (At my prior call to this civic duty, I was actually chosen as a juror.)…What was different, and still is as the …

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