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One-Track Christmas Content Train
Welcome back, my post-feast friends! I hope your Thanksgiving was full of good food, fun times, and warm pie and/or cake, if you’re into that sort of thing. As for me and my house, we had a wonderful...
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Little, Itty Bitty, Teeny Tiny Victories
For those of you who don’t know my husband, here’s what you need to know about him to understand this post: He’s very tall. I’m tall for a woman, and he’s about five inches taller than I am. He’s smart...
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Christmas Shopping With Kids
Just in case there are some of you out there among my blog readers who don’t have kids, or else have kids who haven’t been born yet or are still in that wonderful stage where they’re basically just...
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A Pretty Great Way to Start Off the Year
I don’t know about you, but so far 2015 is off to a pretty great start. I cleaned my house really well, finally got this huge stain out of the carpet in my dining room that three different brands of...
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Handling the Unexpected
So Monday was interesting… It was the kids’ first day back to real life after the holidays and, much to my surprise, I managed to clear out the cobwebs and get everyone out the door on time. After...
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The Day All of Seattle Suffered a Simultaneous Heart Attack
I gotta tell you, living in Seattle yesterday when the Seahawks surprised the crap out of everyone by winning an improbable victory against the Green Bay Packers during what looked to be a no-scoring...
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Stress Ball
Not gonna lie, it’s been a stressful week. No, scratch that, a stressful month. No, wait, just kidding, it’s been a stressful winter. Let’s just go with winter. The whole darn thing has been a...
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You Sad, Bro?
In case you’ve been living under a rock, don’t like football, think Americans are weird for calling their main sport the same name as what the rest of the world calls a different sport, or, y’know,...
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That One Time When Erika Was Cool
It’s worth noting that I’ll never be Amy Dunne-caliber cool, because who would want to be?! I’m not what you’d traditionally think of as a Cool Girl. I think lame puns are funny, I don’t know how to...
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Empty Robot Promises
The story I’m about to tell you is kind of weird. Kind of like when I got pulled over for being a tired driver and a passing car full of hot-boxers made the officer question whether my husband is a...
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Inspired to try something new, lest I fully succumb to my curmudgeonly tendencies, I signed up for Instagram yesterday. Now, I know all the kids these days have moved on to SnapChat, but I cannot, for...
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Going High(ish)
It’s been an interesting few days. My kids are finally over the flu (hooray!), Facebook was full of posts from my friends who participated in the women’s marches over the weekend, a new president was...
View ArticleSelf-Improvement via Coercion
I’ve never been a person for whom moderation came naturally. Why stop at one thousand words a day when three thousand words a day will help me finish this novel three times as fast? If I cut out sugar,...
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