July 2009

Like you couldn’t have guessed.

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via Since I am out of town at the end of this week, I have not only getting myself prepared, but also packing my boys up to stay at Grandma’s for a few days. And now that they are older, it is so much easier. But when they were babies I left extensive notes and [...]

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A Glamorous Night away…

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  View Full Album We headed down to San Diego to see good friends and get a chance to relax a little. Happily we chose to stay at the Hyatt Regency right on Mission Bay. The kids swam while mommy and her girlfriends sat in the pool bar and drank the yummiest Mai Tais this [...]

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The LAST pig post. EVER.

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  No that isn’t some crazy lady trying to get MegaBite to read. This is my good friend Lisa Mertins who just also happens to be like a famous artist and illustrator. No seriously, you should go see her work here. So what IS she doing while visiting us on the last day of the [...]

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A box. A camera. And strips of fun.

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        I have a strange strange love affair with Photo Booth photos. Something about the pure spontaneity and lack of photo control I just adore. They seem to show people totally and completely IN THE MOMENT. There is no deleting the last photo cuz your hair looks funny (ie. strange part in [...]

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Judith and the bitchy book.

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via I actually look forward to most Sundays, because it is my chance to get caught up on laundry and housework while the rest of the family lay on the couch like lazy bums relax. This is a jewel of a page from a long ago book about pregnancy, which was recently found on the [...]

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Whew. It is over. Maybe.

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Today is the last day of this….   Which means the last day of this as well… This has been a difficult and tiring week at the fair. Filled with fun and heartbreak. Needless to say raising an animal for slaughter is hard on the whole family. A great learning experience for certain, but I [...]

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Win-nah…

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  Congrats to Jenny! She is the winner of the Uprinting.com sticker contest (250 custom printed stickers!). Once again thank you to random.org for doing the honors…. Hey Jenny if you can stop being neurotic and klassy for a minute send me your email to marcywrites@roadrunner (dot) com.

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SkyWatch Friday

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  The people gather and gather off Balboa Pier in Newport, California. On a warm day, even the biggest beach seems small. A SkyWatch submission

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Chocolate Covered BACON. For Reals.

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  As you all know cuz I have talked about this ad nauseum for months now I am at the OC Fair showing (and SELLING) a pig we raised for 4H. We have to go WAY before the fair opens (like 6:30am) which means we can walk the fair to see all the food offerings [...]

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Glamorous Advice: Suck the most out of your day.

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Putting it all out there….

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I have received a whole lotta emails and DMs from peeps who are going to attend BlogHer* next week asking what sessions I am going to attend what parties I have chosen to drink my self silly attend….and frankly I thought it would be easier to just publish my spreadsheet schedule for the entire internet [...]

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