February 2010
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stuffaboutminneapolis asked: Did you make any New Year's resolutions?
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Things I Do Because I Want To Be More Like...
Wear pencil skirts and cardigans
Push-ups (amazing arms don’t come from nothing)
Hula-hoop
One Thing I Do That Michelle Obama Probably Doesn’t Do But I Think Is Pretty Awesome Anyway
Hula-hoop while eating butternut squash
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Pictory: The One Who Got Away →
He told me he thought I was amazing, that I was unlike any other girl, that I was special but: “It just isn’t going to work anymore.”
These are all so beautiful and heart-breaking and uplifting all at once. These are the love stories that I wish I could have written when I was attempting to do that. They’re so great I almost feel like I should delete everything I wrote and just put in...
George Michael - Freedom
Someone recently posed...
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Holding out for that teenage feeling.
So I’ve been talking about love stories, and Valentine’s Day comes up, and I didn’t even say anything at all. I should have been posting the most epic of love stories, the most heart-wrenching, the cutest, the most something. But I didn’t.
Honestly, I was busy. I cleaned and made quiche and cookies and had some of my awesome and (mostly) single lady friends over for...
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That Dog - Until the Day I Die
I’ve been...
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Of Montreal - Tim I Wish You Were Born A Girl
I...
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The First Boy I Ever Kissed Is Gay.
We were five. My sister made me do it. The end.
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Erica eats a bag of chocolate so you don't have...
I love my morning routines, which is why I nearly cry when my alarm clock dies, or why I am always sure to have chocolate around in my office because I don’t know if anyone has told you but chocolate + coffee = BEST THING EVER. [I wonder how many things I have claimed in my lifetime to be the Best Thing Ever. Probably way too many, but it’s still a very good thing.]
A good thing!...
Findings - People Share News Online That Inspires... →
The New York Times did an analysis on the trends of what sorts of articles people email to their friends. Sort of interesting, maybe? Except…well, my line of thinking:
The most e-mailed sidebar is one of the first places I look when I go to the NYT site.
Yet I have never once used the NYT “E-Mail This” feature.
Nobody has ever invited me to look at a NYT article in this...
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Love, overheard
I was at the coffeeshop a few weeks ago trying to read a book when two people sat at the table right next to me - a middle aged woman and a boy(man) (sorry, I call ‘em all boys) who was probably in his early twenties. They seemed a bit out of place among the obvious couples and the obvious singles with their laptops, but it was clear pretty quick that they were a mom and son team. At first...
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Some Things Just Shouldn't Be Reused
So I used to teach middle school, where Valentine’s Day is most definitely celebrated. One morning around V-Day, a student walked up to me before homeroom, handed over a gift and said it was for one of my students, we’ll call her Mary. I called Mary over and tried to pass the present along. Mary was somewhat quiet and shy and didn’t know a ton of English, but her answer was clear...
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Savory Pies And Things And Stuff
This is a somewhat weak connection to love, but hear me out. When it’s cold out I have a hard time thinking of foods I love more than any mix of vegetables and meat or eggs in a flaky buttery crust, or maybe with mashed potatoes on top. For many years my family birthday dinner (which is also near V-Day) has been vegetable pot pie, so I just tend to associate these foods with warmth and...
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Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord - NY Times →
A fascinating article about the culture of karaoke in the Philippines, where Sinatra’s “My Way” has been known to incite violence.
Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s...
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I love ________
Things or people I have claimed to love after doing a quick search of my gmail and gchats:
technology! and Alec Baldwin.
invitations
plaid.
when guys actually PLAN DATES
the new flickr uploader
my canon powershot elph
built-ins and dark wood accents
Ping Wu, and Project Runway in general
the mid-twenties (as in, the temperature range. I took that one back immediately.)
THANKSGIVING
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PJ Harvey - You Said Something
We lean against...
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This Is How It Was Supposed To Happen
To one of my first crushes in grade school: we really missed our golden opportunity. I had it all planned out.
Remember that field trip we went on, to the suburban nature reserve? No?! Really??? You should remember it, because that was the day we were going to fall in love.
Alright, I’ll fill you in a little - the nature reserve had boardwalks. Lots of boardwalks over boggy marshy areas...
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