Take 7 (2)

31Jul09

1.   I am a boot camp drop out!  This summer I started this early morning workout program wanting to get in shape and thinking that having a class to be held accountable at and having said class be outside it would be a fun way to do so.   I convinced my husband to do the [...]

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Why I started this blog…

30Jul09

As I’m sitting here waiting for the AT&T technician lady to tell me what’s wrong with my internet (yes, I’m currently jacking our one neighbor’s line who doesn’t have a password) I was contemplating the point of my blog.  I think its good to have a point to have a purpose but I am still [...]

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Townhome Update

30Jul09

For anyone who may be following or is curious about our house drama, I thought I’d do a little update!  As of right now, we just signed new and revised official contract and gave it to our realtor who is now running it over to the seller’s agent with the other documents (including earnest money [...]

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“Nothing worth doing is easy”

28Jul09

As NFP teaching volunteers in the Diocese, this past week we were invited to a celebration mass on Sunday night at the Co-Cathedral with the Cardinal (twice in 2 weeks!).  It was a simple celebration consisting of mass and a potluck dinner afterward with other NFP volunteers in order to commemorate the last day of [...]

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Take 7

24Jul09

1.  It seems like all my friends are jumping out of airplanes recently.  Literally.  I’ve known three friends to go skydiving in the last two weeks and last night I was beginning to think there’s something wrong with me for having absolutely no desire whatsoever to do that.  Then I remembered what my mom always [...]

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To sue or not to sue

23Jul09

I feel like the events of the last two weeks are a test of some sort and I’m still trying to figure out the lesson.  I’ve always been embarrassed of the American “suing” mentality.  After all, its pretty selfish to just blame someone else for your problems and just plain greedy to want to turn [...]

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NFP Awareness Week

23Jul09

As you may or may not have heard, this week is NFP Awareness Week!  Since everything seems to have an “Awareness Week” these days (Seriously? And I don’t even know what this is but it sounds hilarious – good thing they have a week!) its only fitting that Natural Family Planning would also have its [...]

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California for the 4th

21Jul09

This past 4th of July we went to Mike’s parent’s house for their annual celebration.  There’s always a huge party at that house complete with ping pong, a trampoline, tons of great food (including 7 layer dip and red, white, and blue pudding!), tons of great company (in the form of his whole family and [...]

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Birthday Weekend and Spanish Mass!

21Jul09

My husband and I spent this past weekend celebrating my birthday: the big quarter century.  Yahoo!  He knows how I like to be surprised, and try as he might, I still found out what he got me before my birthday (accidentally, of course)!   It was a great weekend complete with flowers, breakfast in bed, [...]

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New York, New York!

17Jul09

One great thing about being in academia (although I’m sure many other jobs afford you this luxury) is TRAVELING to cool locations for conferences!  Admittedly, not all conference locations are cool (sorry Newark, DE and Charlotte, NC) but its fun to make the best of them and see what you can.  So when a really [...]

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