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- December 3rd, 2009
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Christmastime is heeeeere....
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown. Yes, these are the only Christmas decorations I own -- two stockings from Target and a glittery sign from Michael's that Aaron says is ghetto but I still believe is ret…
- November 24th, 2009
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Pent up demand.
When I was little, I used to sit in front of Saturday morning cartoons with a pen and paper and watch all the commercials to make my Christmas wish list. I remember the day this stopped working and be…
- November 12th, 2009
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Yes, I\'m Aware.
I miss you too.Now cut me some slack, I'm blogging for three these days.First thisthen thisand if I ever get to it this.Love y'all. Thanks for sticking around.IN the meantime, you should come to this.
- October 29th, 2009
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Very Superstitious
Hokay, so I'm supposing for just about everyone that reads the blog, the news has already been broken, but to make it official....As of this Wednesday, I became on of the food bloggers for the Houston…
- October 25th, 2009
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Ya no quieres caminar
I'm back from my long weekend in San Antonio.And when I say long, I mean it. Count with me-18 high school marching band performances (15 back-t0-back in a four-hour block)9 total hours in the car5 out…
- October 20th, 2009
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Someone like you and all you know and how you speak
Funny thing to spend your teenage years searching for people like you only to spend your twenties lamenting the discovery. Yesterday's kindred spirits are today's competition. And with the growing kno…
- October 12th, 2009
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Songs for Fat People
Since I started exercising I've become one of the people I despise most because I(a) go jogging(b) jog in such a way that it's actually slower than walkingAs one such despicable person, I can tell you…
- October 11th, 2009
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Spoiled Brat.
This weekend Aaron and I decided our dog just might have too many toys, so we spent a little time this afternoon going through everything. Scientific tests were performed to determine the desirability…
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Somewhere Between Houston and Albuquerque
I started painting again.More than two years ago I took an Intro to Acrylic Painting summer school class at UT taught by Polly Jackson.It. was. glorious.Not because I ended up with any sort of respect…
- October 7th, 2009
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- October 2nd, 2009
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I Heart SL
I think everyone has a healthy dose of uneasy ambivalence towards the towns in which they grew up, but returning from Austin to live just 20 minutes down the road and working at an agency that has qui…
- September 29th, 2009
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I Know You Are But What Am I
In the name of all things petty (except you, Tom Petty, you're okay) I have to say here and now that I once loved but now hate the Spearmint Baby "My Top 10 Baby Names" blog idea.Why?Because since eve…
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The Most Interesting Thing I've Learned in Law School So Far
If you think I'm not in it, I beg to differ. I attend law school night school, instructed by professor Aaron. Much like TMZ's Harvey Levin, he gives me the highlights.Favorite thing yet:At a late 1970…
- September 27th, 2009
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I Cooked! (and everyone lived to tell about it)
Turkey Burgers1 pound lean ground turkey1 packet Hidden Valley ranch dip mixa few handfuls of fresh, raw spinach1-2 mushroomschop, mix, grill.onions, butter, pan.(provolone, mayo, bun)dinner.Now that'…
- September 25th, 2009
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Into the Ether From Whence He Came
Remember in this blog post how I talked about the idea that the creation of art has a lot to do with this need and struggle to bring something ethereal into physical existence?Two days later I saw thi…
- September 24th, 2009
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Faux Fall
soooo I was taking a peak at one of my favorite blogs, Inside the Loop this afternoon and came across this fabulous collection of fall items perfect for those of us who live in places that well... nev…
- September 22nd, 2009
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Is your name Jennifer? Do you hate cake? Let's Talk.
This Friday, September 25 all three locations of Dessert Gallery are giving away a FREE slice of Jennifer's Birthday Cake to anyone named Jennifer, in celebration of the owner's daughter's birthday (w…
- September 21st, 2009
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Writer's Block
It happens when you most expect it.Because believing what you are writing is not good enough, is not what you meant or wanted to say is a self-fulfilling prophecy.The more I think my writing is not go…
- September 16th, 2009
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See Me For The Nerd That I Am
If I could bring one thing back from the 90s it would be Natural Wonders.Yes, the store at the West Oaks Mall (and many others) that sold things like rainsticks, adopt-a-whale packets and compilation…
- September 13th, 2009
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One Year Ago Today
For me it was a week or so without power. Some fallen trees at the end of my parents' culdisac and a downed fence that meant our dog had to be chained up to the swing set in our backyard. Blocked stre…
- September 11th, 2009
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Why I 'd Like to be a Photographer
I have a ritual.Every night before I go to bed, I turn off the lights, click on the lamp on my night-stand and I stare at the walls. I stare at every object in my room. I take time to admire the bea…
- September 10th, 2009
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Kerbey v. Kirby
I've always been enamored (though never fully committed in belief) with the idea of astrology and personality. How the planets swirled and stars aligned the day each of us were born. Whether our first…
- September 8th, 2009
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Jumped the Shark
There is a landmark episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie jumps over a shark tank, after which Happy Days took an irrecoverable ratings dive. The following things have reached a similar popularity pi…
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MythBusters: The Myth of the Ubiquitous Dessert Gallery
Up until about two days ago I thought Dessert Gallery was EVERYWHERE.Took a look at the company website, did a little research and discovered that no, Dessert Gallery isn't everywhere. It's only in th…
- August 26th, 2009
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Flight or Flight
I have never donated blood.There is nothing wrong with me, I have no congenital or communicable diseases, I have never been to a third-world country. I'm pretty sure I have a rare blood type. But no m…
- August 24th, 2009
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Things I Want But Can't Have So Let's Drool Over Them Together
1. These suede wedge boots from Banana Republic that cost $170.2. This oh-so cute doggie bowl by These Creatures for Ruby (and the oh-so cute doxie modeling it). Doggie bowl costs $175 for reasons…
- August 17th, 2009
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Elephunk.
A long, long time ago when I was a freshman at the University of Texas in Austin, I was skinny.WAY skinny. 110 pounds skinny. I was depressed, I hated the dorm food and I walked everywhere because I h…
- August 16th, 2009
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Save the Rainforest, Office Depot
Just returned from a sound kick in the pants and wake-up call from the not-so friendly folks at Office Depot.Aaron and I went last night to print out a 447 page PDF of law case studies he needed for t…
- August 15th, 2009
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Today is Not September 12.
But it is my birthday anyways because Aaron is bad at keeping secrets and now I have a NEW CAMERA (I hope you all said that in your head like I did- the way they say "NEW CAR" on the Price is Right)It…
- August 11th, 2009
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A Potato's Tale: Couch to 5K and Back Again
So.Last week Aaron and I started a program that I am dead serious is called "Couch to 5k" in which we jog three times a week. Talk about some directed marketing. So We, The People of the Target Audien…
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bringbackpluto to her friends list. - August 10th, 2009
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DOA: The Nerdy Weekend That Wasn't
As of sometime around 3 am last Wednesday I became the yet-to-be-proud owner of LaurenMcKechnie.com. Only I was asleep when it happened.Aaron bought it for me in much the same way Smith bought Samanth…
- August 3rd, 2009
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Some are born cool, some acheive coolness, and others have coolness thrust upon them.
Because I never thought I'd be able to say this: I can get you in.Free drinks, Ferraris and lots of other fun things appeared in my inbox just now. More to come, leave a comment if you're interested i…
- July 30th, 2009
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The Devil Wears Anthropologie
You know how I'm always saying I can predict fashion trends and everyone thinks I'm crazy at the time I start liking things (sometimes even myself) but then later on it's all over the place?Well, this…
- July 29th, 2009
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YOU NEED RELACORE!
One of my favorite food-ogling websites, TasteSpotting has begun to toy with the idea of advertising recently. While not completely defiled, what was once a pristine, beautiful ad-free site is showing…
- July 28th, 2009
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I'll Bring the Conversation
Wanted: Two very specific kinds of friends.1. The friend who takes fabulous and flattering photos of everything you do, keeping a pictorial history of your adventures together so that you know every t…
- July 27th, 2009
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Work Hard, Play Easy
That's what I'm thinking of changing my blog to. I considered the possibility of starting a "Things to do in Houston" type blog, but then I remembered how antisocial I am, how anything classified as "…
- July 24th, 2009
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Taking a Summer Day
Today I took a day off to relax and do nothing but by noon I was ready to crawl out of my skin. I think I am changing as a person- I never saw myself as a busy body, but these days I'm finding it hard…
- July 21st, 2009
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Evolution of The Chic Alt-Rock Chick: Brunettes with Bangs
Lily Allen, 2009. Already watched this video over and over about 14 times. The fashion, the hair, the eyes. The gold dress. The attitude. It's all perfection.....which all reminds me of an earlier obs…
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Roots
It's only after four years with someone and a year in to a life-long commitment to them do they begin to tell you some of the more disturbing things about themselves and their family. Like the prevale…
- July 20th, 2009
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Weekend Discoveries
1. Fadi's Mediterranean Grill. Delicious. Also, I can't spell Mediterranean.2. Tasti-D-Lite is now open at Post Oak and San Felipe and it is everything SATC made it out to be. Fab-U-Lous.3. Yuzu + Ber…
- July 19th, 2009
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Make the Switch
You might have caught on to this by now, but I love BeneFit cosmetics. I also have been using Clinique for the last eight years or so because of my rather severe allergies to various products (the l…
- July 15th, 2009
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It's Not Easy Being Green
...when you're an apartment dweller in the city of Houston.This is my "collection." The crazy bag-lady stash of recyclables I keep in my kitchen until the next time I drive to Sugar Land to visit my f…
- July 13th, 2009
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I'M GOING ON A CRUISE!
...in about six months.Carnival Conquest, leaving out of Galveston December 27th, 2009. We'll visit Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Cozumel, Mexico and return January 3rd, 2010.If I was better at math…
- July 10th, 2009
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Worth a Thousand
From this LA Times article on the death of Oscar G. Mayer III.Anyone seen that movie Toys with Robin Williams? Please, somebody out there tell me you know exactly what I am talking about because I can…
- July 8th, 2009
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Mind the Gap
Since the day in seventh grade when my best friend got a Blueberry iMac and we began spending our Saturdays on Yahoo! Chat scanning in pictures from magazines, giggling over McDonalds milkshakes and…
- July 1st, 2009
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Shaila.
Rainn Wilson stole my super-secret baby name.With all the babies flying around my secondary social group, I'm actually starting to get anxious. Not about having kids or wanting kids or avoiding kids,…
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Faceless Self-Portrait
I've been meaning to post on this for a while because I think it's an amazingly wonderful simple idea. Rainn Wilson from The Office (or from House of 1,000 Corpses depending on how truly twisted you a…
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