[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?]
Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
On February 2nd of this year I [...]
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[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?]
Quiet moments have been few and far between this year. While I’m normally pretty good at shutting off the various insistent hootings and hollerings of the monkey brain, this year I’ve been hustling pretty much nonstop. So [...]
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[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?] Night out. Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?
My best friend is finishing up law school at [...]
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[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?] Book. What book – fiction or non – touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?
Party the first: an entire series. Party the second: one novel. [...]
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[Originally on my previous blog, I thought I'd include this piece here, too. Mostly for my own benefit, today.] This is something I cut out of the Los Angeles Times years and years ago. I don’t even remember the name of the short-lived column it came from, let alone the author’s name (if you do, [...]
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[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?]
Article. What’s an article that you read that blew you away? That you shared with all your friends. That you Delicious’d and reference throughout the year.
This article from the Wall Street Journal, “How to Write a [...]
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[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?]
July 8. My 34th birthday. I’ve just had my hair done. I’m dressed like me, which is different from how I was dressed last year on my birthday, when I was in corporate drag. My mother and I [...]
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What was the best trip of 2009? This one. Hands down.
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I’ve been talking about the Oscars a lot lately — namely, that I want to attend them one of these years — and something my friend Dyana said reminded me of this post (from my previous blog), which is not about the Oscars, but the Golden Globes. Anyway, thinking of it made me laugh, and [...]
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On the plus side:
I got to spend time with my good friend Hector
We went to a fantastic restaurant/bar with tacos so good they made me nostalgic
Neil played a couple of my favorites that I’ve never heard him do live
Not bad.
On the minus side:
Because we were told before the show that — surprise! — there would [...]
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