I just made that title up. Well, I make up all of my titles, but typically I will think about it for hours and often will have a title in mind before I even sit down to type out the post. Anyway, this one just shot out of my brain and through my fingers, into my computer and onto the screen. And I hate it. But it stays. *** My feet are in Chicagoland again, at least temporarily, and I’m ready to dive into my regular work/workout/taking care of things around the house schedule. This weekend has been great for easing in: yesterday Jim and I did our workouts in…
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My Favorite Things: The New Jersey Edition (Yo!)
Yesterday was my last day in New Jersey and, because she’s real smart like that, Liz thought we should go out to breakfast and do a little more local sightseeing in the area rather than sit around at her house, crying because we had to say goodbye in the afternoon, which totally would have happened. During a lovely walk in Thompson Park—which is NOT named after Liz or her husband Garth (Not His Real Name); I checked!!–we talked about our week and I told her that I didn’t even have a favorite part; the entire visit was my favorite. That was only a little true. I have some favorites, but…
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Odds and Ends
I just have a bunch of bits and pieces (odds and ends, whatever) that I wanted to get out there because I’ve been all over the place this week, so I decided to post a “Brain Dump” (as my sistuh-from-anuthuh-mutha calls it) today. This could also technically be a Friday Fragments post (as Mrs. 4444 has done for years every Friday), but I’m not linking up over there because I don’t have the time to go read the posts by all of the other participants and I don’t want to be unfair. (But YOU could! Go! Do it!) So anyway, here we go. Yesterday’s post, a note to the Zumba…
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Blogrolls: Everybody, Meet Everybody.
Get comfy; I want to tell you a little story. Actually, it’s a big, long story; that’s why you should perhaps make yourself a snack and put on your jammies and then come back. I’ll wait. When I started blogging nearly six years ago, the way that online communities were formed was very different from how it is today. Facebook was still relatively new to the general public and for the most part, nobody was on it yet. Twitter started the year before but wasn’t “a thing” yet either. When I was a newbie blogger*, I found other bloggers by going to the Google Blog Search, throwing in some search…
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College Drop Off: We Went, We Moved Him In, I Got The T-Shirt.
Two, actually. I bought two t-shirts, because I couldn’t decide between the short-sleeved hot pink shirt and the long-sleeved orange and blue shirt–school colors–so I went home with both. So, the deed is done. We dropped our younger son off at college and I didn’t die. I can tell you what leaving felt like, though. It felt like having a full-body bandage pulled off, with that last little sticky part that always stings the most being positioned right over my heart. But again, I didn’t die. Jim didn’t either. We were sort of thrown for the rest of the day, but we’re going to be absolutely just fine. Also, there…
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LTYM Chicago 2013: The Non-Recap Recap
I have been at a loss as to how I should formulate a decent summary post for Sunday’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER CHICAGO show. I have so many words swirling around in my head but at the same time, none of them want to come out in any way that makes sense. I could tell you how amazing the show was, but that would be very similar to what I said last year. In a way, that’s not a bad thing. I’m finding out that, just as Tracey and I have been preparing our 2012 cast for “younger siblings” in an alumni group on Facebook, each year our show is…
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Hello Again
Well, hello there! *dusting off the blog dashboard* It’s been a very busy week, as LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER CHICAGO was on Sunday. It went very, very, VERY well and as an added bonus, NBC Nightly News (yes, the NATIONAL ONE) spent the day with us to get tons of coverage and interviews for a piece on Ann Imig (Founder and National Director) and this LTYM phenomenon. (!!!!!!) We aren’t sure which evening this week it will air but believe me, I will let you know. I will write a more detailed post after I get caught up with the work I had to let fall by the wayside over…
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Rawr!
Tracey and I are in the last few days of preparation for LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER CHICAGO (tickets still available HERE!). We’re very, very excited but, as is very normal when a team nears the end result of a major project, a little bit of exhaustion is starting to creep in here and there. That’s why we couldn’t have been more thrilled to see this picture, snapped by official LTYM Chicago 2013 Photographer Sabrina Persico, which took away the sleepies and gave us the giggles. Big time. I love these ladies. (and you will too, whether you’re in the audience or watching on the LTYMshow YouTube channel at the end…
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Moms Who Drink And Swear
I enjoy supporting other bloggers whenever I can. If I know them personally, bonus. One of my blogger friends is going through a very exciting time at the moment: she’s in the throes of releasing her first book. I especially like supporting other bloggers who publish books, because as an author myself I know how difficult the marketing part is. Most people out there think that the work is done once the book is written, when actually that’s the easy part. Holding a copy of your book for the first time is much like being handed a baby right after you give birth (go with me here): you look at…
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The Journey
It makes total sense (to me) that the day after writing a post about how consumed I am with Chicago’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER show, I would write another post about Chicago’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER show. I have two very good reasons. The first reason is because I was a total idiot yesterday and forgot to mention that tickets are still on sale. Had we used the same venue as last year we would have sold out weeks ago, but we decided that we’d “Go big or go home” this year and moved to a venue three times the size (the gorgeous Athenaeum Theatre!), therefore…tickets are still available! You…