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Vote for me!!!!

Friday, October 21st, 2011

I am already a professional athlete. Random Coinage is my sponsor. I have been known to stop my bike in the middle of an intersection to pick up a dime. Every time I go for a run I find money! So far I am averaging 1/12 of a cent per mile.

Now I need your help because I want to be a professional photographer. Biz sent me a link to a contest that I KNOW I can win if you take a second to vote. I entered the following 4 photos, vote for 1 or all, plus please forward to everyone in your email contacts, please!

Bird at sunrise

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Having a blast on the boogie board!

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Sunrise on N Myrtle Beach

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Water fun!

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Recovering from the holidays

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Most everyone who reads this blog knows what insanity exists in our lives in December since Paul and the kids all have their birthdays in a 2 week stretch, then Christmas and New Years. The last couple years we have started the year by bringing our lives to a screeching halt in January. We plan nothing, do less and love it. Until I get antsy and start making lists. This year was no different.

Fido the Fit before his much needed---and deserved-- trip to the spa after keeping us safe through 14 hours of snow and ice on our trip back from Indiana at Christmas after only 12 hours of visiting (really 6 b/c we slept some too).

The house and pets took a beating too. Check out this picture of Bluesy amongst the chaos of leftover Christmas crap-o-la. No matter how ruthless we are at cleaning out before the holidays (and the kids were REALLY thorough this year), there is never enough room for all of our treasures. We are very good, after all!

Waiting for Santa was exhausting!

Paul takes a much deserved nap. So tired--this is even DURING a Carolina game with the kids playing all around him.

The pets have to handle so many schedule changes: Paul staying home from work, then the kids are there all day of some days, then all of us leaving for days at a time to travel, coming home late from parties (ok, late for us). Their whole world gets turned upside down. Barton and Katie even forgot they were not supposed to like each other!

Sign the Apocolypse is upon us.

I started feeling the old twinges of needing to make a list today though. This year we are not going to take on any major new projects. More like just finishing up that last 2% of the projects that never get done. We will keep you posted of course! Stay tuned.

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Collateral damage

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

There are little things you don’t think about when you go to make transitions. One of the little things I think about when I decided to quit my job is dry cleaning. The dry cleaner I used was in Burlington, while we obviously live in Greensboro. The cleaner was very convenient to work and they had a 24 hour drop off service where you just stick the bag in a drop slot. I liked having the bag b/c I just hung it near the washer/dryer and when I had something to go, I just put it in the bag. When the bag is full, off it goes.

But now I need to take the bag back since driving 45 minutes away to just drop off dry cleaning is crazy. Then I need to find a new one. Do I pick closer to the house? Risk relying on Paul to drop off and pick up (love you Bixby!)? Wait until I start my new job and get a dry cleaner near there? If I do that, what do I do with the couple things I have now?

It kind of makes me laugh that now that I am on “sabbatical,” this is one of my most pressing “worries.” Local peeps: any recommendations for dry cleaners?

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