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Traci Arbios
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It seemed like such a great deal, who could resist?
All I had to do was re-post the free iPod offer on my Facebook account, and fulfill a deal, and bam! I’d get a free iPod within a 5 to 7 days!
Or maybe it was an iPad? Or an iPod Nano? Wait, no, the offer was [...]
Releasing attachment
Today is supposed to be the day.
I drive to work and hear stories of a failed US economy, of a housing crisis that continues to unfold, and of a banking system that refuses to lend money to consumers.
*gulp*
What if they change their mind? What the lending company decides not to fund our mortgage today and [...]
NOTE TO SELF: Try harder next time
I could be a better person. I realize this.
It would start with me actually remembering the vows I take daily at 4:00 pm, when I begin detailing my checklist of all the things I will accomplish when I get home:
I will start dinner ASAP!
I will clean the kitchen!
I will start packing for our [...]
BRAGGING RIGHTS: My son
My oldest son just found out he got into CART, the Center for Advanced Research and Technology, which is a school that “collaborate(s) with businesses and community agencies to educate students in a cross curricular, project-based environment that is academically rigorous, and facilitated through a business based instructional model.”
It’s kind [...]
Climbing mountains isn’t just metaphorical
…It’s literal. This past weekend my hubs and I climbed Mt. Whitney with some great friends of ours. For those unaware, Mt. Whitney is the highest peak in the contiguous U.S., standing at an elevation of 14, 505 feet. It might not seem like a big deal, but that is a long [...]
Good news is… unusual
FACT: Bad news happens in threes. Everybody knows this. Someone dies, two more people are supposed to die. You lose your job, you can pretty much bet you’re going to need car repairs and your favorite pet will have run away.
We who thrive in this superstitious vein have simply come to accept this Rule of [...]
Knacks of Knickery & other observations
3:45 AM SATURDAY:
So I was just admiring a local blogger’s site, MrsPriss.com. She makes me snicker inwardly at her amused discoveries of parenting. Mostly, her recounting of her toddler’s discoveries of the world.
And her site also connects to her Etsy page, where she makes these adorable knacks of knickery. I don’t often compare my blog [...]
What does it all mean?
Last night I dreamed I was on the set of a reality TV show.
I found myself in our overfilled living room swollen to the bursting point with production staff and hangers on, when my oldest daughter (who was the star of this show) decided it was time—on national television—to inform me that she was critically [...]
Menopause: Whales get it, too
You know what I have in common with some whales? Besides the whole mammal thing and my girth, I mean?
Well… I was reading Scientific American in my never-ending quest to be able to state that I read such a high-brow mag, and I learned that both certain species of whales and the females of the [...]
I say no
I was recently talking to a friend of mine about kid stuff. Teen stuff. Stuff that we all face and stuff we all hate to admit our kids are up to– even though these things happen to everyone. It’s the secret stuff you don’t talk to people about (except maybe when huddled in the closet, [...]
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