Recent Posts Tagged With friendship

• Many Thanks

  Posted on Saturday October 11th, 2008 at 01:24 pm in family health work friendship weight

  Thanks to all who wished me a Happy Birthday here and on Twitter yesterday. Those of you who follow me there may have seen that I was having a bit of a rocky day, full of tears. October is always a tight time of year, and we always say I’ll ge...

• It’s the C word

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 08:13 pm in friendship

  I just got off the phone with my sister-in-law. She caught it early. It’s stage one in the right breast and precancerous in the left. She meets with her oncologist and plastic surgeon next week to discuss options. They are recommending a dou...

• Pass Me a Pink Ribbon

  Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 08:37 pm in friendship self absorption

  My best friend from college–my college roommate–married my oldest step-brother in 1995 and became my sister-in-law. I was her maid of honor. I was there when she gave birth. I am their son’s godmother. We’ve been there fo...

• Get your freak on

  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 10:04 am in friendship just saying

  This is just a typical Easter night at the in-laws…. My husband’s oldest sister and I have been best friends since 9th grade. That’s 20 years this year. Dude. Seriously. She’s always been like this and it never fails to en...

• 35 years, yo.

  Posted on Monday March 10th, 2008 at 11:04 pm in friendship

  We have been friends longer than we have not. I think we are 15. MAYBE 16 here. Dude, check out her glasses and my bangs, jean jacket, and of course the buttons and pins on the jacket. So 1988. She forced me out of my shell in high school, and b...

• Warms my heart

  Posted on Wednesday February 27th, 2008 at 08:53 pm in friendship just saying self absorption

  Those of you on Twitter, may know me as @Amalita. Amalita is a nickname my husband uses for me. So it warmed my heart when DeeJay let me know she named this little kitty after me. The kitty is just as sweet as can be. And so is DeeJay. Book Mar...

• Hot Stuff

  Posted on Monday January 21st, 2008 at 07:54 am in friendship just saying

  In the frigid temperatures last night we loaded up the kids and ran to town for some food.  On the way home, Snoring Daddy had turned the heater down while the rest of us sat shivering.  “You turned it all the way down?” “Yes, I w...

• 2008 WILL be happy damn it. OR ELSE.

  Posted on Tuesday January 1st, 2008 at 05:06 pm in garden friendship weight potty training graduate school

  I’m not great at making new year’s resolutions.  I usually avoid making them for fear of failure and when I do make them I list them as goals–something a little less threatening then an actual resolution.  Resolve is so serious. ...

• Keep the cryptonite and pass the anti-acids, please.

  Posted on Friday November 2nd, 2007 at 12:59 pm in friendship weight graduate school just saying self absorption

  This is what happens when I’m left home alone with the kids while Snoring Daddy flies away to Vegas for a big convention.  I start thinking.   Why CAN’T I be Super Woman, damn it? *I’m stamping my feet now and I’m this clos...