If you haven’t been introduced to this site before, it’s high time. Passive Aggressive Notes, meet my dear readers. Readers, meet Passive Aggressive Notes. Since I’ll be spending most of today with a high school friend, this seemed like the right time to discuss other people’s notes. Not all of the notes are appropriate, so…
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It’s a Zoo Out There
A conversation with my roommate yesterday turned from her wedding-planning stress to past stress, and it turns out that we both took homeopathic anti-anxiety medicine when we were little kids. We decided to enjoy the humor in that and ignore the possibility that we were neurotic kids. So in honor of four-year-old Abigail and six-year-old…
Things I’m Looking Forward To: Fall Edition
I might live in Virginia, but in some parts of the world, the end of August means that cool weather is on its way. I could tell you why I love fall every single day and not get tired of it. Here are a few of the things I think about when facing another hot…
Balance
Everyone struggles to find balance in their lives, right? If it isn’t a question of spending versus saving, it’s whether you’re focusing the right amount of time and energy on work or on family and friends. Every choice impacts some balance in your life. If crying in the parking lot of a car dealership was…
The Trailerhood
Things that shouldn’t be… I’ve had Toby Keith’s song “Trailerhood” stuck in my head for three long days. I could blame the perfect storm of technological events that encouraged me to turn on CMT’s music videos while I was getting ready for work. It’s still my fault though. Sigh. Almost every morning, I try to…
All Gussied Up
Changing your windshield wiper blades is one of those tasks that you never get around to even though it isn’t a big deal (and by “you,” I mean “I”). What really happened is that I forgot about the problem when the sun was out, and driving to the store without windshield wipers seemed like a…
Summer Reading
I recently finished a mammoth book. It was 566 pages about an Argentine family from the 1940’s through the present day. If I’m being forthcoming with you, it was actually 19 discs. I listen to audiobooks sometimes even though some people think it’s cheating. They’re the exact same words, people! About 16.5 discs into the…
Small, but valuable. 