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2008-10-22 06:41:41 Mom Coming Home
"Your daughter's biopsy is clean" Thank you Lord!  V is finally home from the hospital and feeling much better.  She is on heavy duty antibiotics and has been without a fever for 48 hours now. Things are slowly getting back to normal here at the house...some incredibly kind and gene...
I met a woman this weekend at my son's hockey practice who has 4 children.  Each of the four children plays hockey, is on the swim team and her daughter dances as well.  She told me they have a spreadsheet on the fridge to make it through each weekend.  That morning they had left th...
2008-10-06  Novel Journey
A past winner of Associated Press awards for her journalism, Christa Parrish now teaches literature and writing to high school students, is a homeschool mom, and lives near Saratoga Springs , New York . Visit www.christaparrish.comTell us about your latest project. My first novel, Home...
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I have been biting my tongue for TWO WHOLE DAYS, but now that it is up, I can squee that SARCASTIC MOM IS PREGNANT, TOO!!!!! She is due about a week after I am and I am so excited that both of us are going to get big and fat together in the blogosphere. Please go by and say congratulat...
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I’ve been involved with social networking sites for years.  A few have been very good, that’s why I kept coming back.  Most are troublesome though and leave you wondering, “What was I thinking?” When I first got online many moons ago, the whole technology thing amazed me.  I...
My previous article, “2008 Elections: Marriage-Absence, America’s Most Urgent Problem, Goes Ignored”, points out what is wrong with Sarah Palin: she is a card-carrying big-government socialist feminist. McCain is no better for a variety of reasons discussed in previous articles [...
, 2008 , Activism , Analysis , Conservatism , Current , Family , Fatherhood , Feminism , Law , Mating, , OP/ED , Politics , Vox
I continue to celebrate being Mommy to Alyzabeth... 20 days and counting!!Update through Sunday Evening, 10/05/08: · She continues to get her way by us bribing her with Cheerios and Gold Fish. · Food has always been her favorite, eating just about anything. We call ...
, Alyzabeth , Family
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7am:  I roll out of bed and stumble to the bathroom with my contact lenses completely stuck to my eye balls.  I have a new appreciation of how a blind person navigates his morning.  The husband apparently got a late night wild hair and decided to shave off all of his.  Brushing you...
Precious, The Mrs, Sass & I went out for Girl's Night Out ...and ended up with a Perfect Night Out. When we met up the girl's were super excited to tell me about a surprise they had for me... "Um. Can I at least get a drink in me first?" The Mrs: "No. Really.  You're gonna love it." S...
Learning a foreign language can and should be a fun and pleasant experience. Unfortunately, in most cases, people find it a daunting and frustrating experience with minimal or poor results.  Why is that? Well, it's because the method used by almost all books, schools and teachers isn'...
2008-10-05  Knightly Chats
Today as I was holding a two week old baby, I was reminiscing about the births of my three children.  What joyous times of celebration!  As I was holding that little baby in my arms, my very own daughter was bringing me indescribable joy.  Today was the day of her baptism.  She ma...
, Pumpkin
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This season the girls on Wisteria Lane have grown-up problems. Instead of scheming with each other et al. for male attention, status, and more money, they are struggling to survive. Gabby and Carlos are reduced to near-poverty, so much so that he has to eat their social standing and ...
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2008-10-05  Runners Lounge
Congratulations to Nat (aka RunNat) for being the September ExtraOrdinary Runner Award Winner! She wins a free pair of shoes from OnLineShoes.com! Natalie wrote a this story originally as a great post on her blog earlier this year about her secrets to training for and finishing a ...
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2008-10-05  Two Barking Dogs
A couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Sofiya (K9 Amiga) at K9 Chronicles.  She is a dog lover, blogger, and just happens to work for K9Cusine. On behalf of K9Cusine, Sofiya sent me a box of dog food, treats, chews and toys.  The box came last week, and I took a couple [...]
, Dogs , black , dog , dog , dog , dog , dog , labrador , puppy , random , what , k9 , Pets
(CNN Washington)- In an attempt to shore up the McCain-Palin run to the presidency and in a final effort to sway uncommitted swing state voters  Republican V.P. candidate Sarah Palin  her new new “CMDR Initiative”.  She stated that CMDR would change the way the averag...
, humor , politics , Dallas , debates , economic , john , sarah , satire , wasilla
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2008-10-05  Bitten and Bound
  Jill Biden’s mother, Bonny Jean Jacobs, died today after a long illness.  She was 78 years old and lived in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.   She raised five daughters, was a homemaker and avid gardener with a life long love of reading. Donald C. Jacobs, a banker, died in 1999....
, Politics , saturday , Bonny , dead , died , family , Jill , Jill , Joe , pictures
The recent Ohio Supreme Court's decision in Dombroski v. Wellpoint, Inc., 2008-Ohio-4827, has only further complicated the determination whether the corporate veil should be pierced in particular cases. In holding that the second prong of the seminal Belvedere testdid not include mer...
, Belvedere , Business , Dombroski , Wellpoint , inequitable , piercing , piercing
We are one month away from our Fifth Anniversary at WAHM Talk Radio.  Want to wish our team and listeners a happy birthday?  Use our Listener’s Line! (214) 615-6505 ext 9115. My co-host this week is Annette Yen of Fun on the Ark.  Annette has been on the show bef...
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2008-10-05  omegamom.com
OmegaDotter drawing a picture for Grandma Julie: “I’m putting the sun up here…Now I need some clouds, but not a lot, because I don’t want to hide the sun.” “Grass…I need grass down here.” “And a spider! I like spiders. In pictures...
, OmegaDotter , OmegaGranny , Parenting
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It's 1:45 in the morning, here at $hospital. I'm on OB call, so I handle OB triage. Somewhere on this floor is a woman who's walking. Sometime in the next hour she'll return to the triage room and I'll get paged to go check her cervix.If I never see another vagina it will be too soo...
Democrats for the most part are simply better politicians than Republicans.  Democrats seem to be first in front of a microphone, first to lob a grenade, and can without flinching be Teflon deflecting an issue to Republicans, greedy Wall Street types, Big Oil, or to Mother Theresa.  ...
2008-10-05  Cant Keep Quiet!
Well, Artie's blookwork came back mixed.  One of the thyroid indicators was normal and one was high. I talked to the vet and he suggested halving her thyroid medicine for about a month and then getting her weight and doing the blood work again.  This way we'll see if the th...
, It's , Pets , getting , Vet
I used to think that CNN could be trusted.  Ha.  Have you watched the video crazybengal posted? Soledad O'Brien asks a small group of voters to tell which candidate won the VP debate.  She first asks about Biden, comments that the vote looks "overwhelming" then asks about Palin.  ...
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Our EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Sue Bostrom talks about Cisco marketing, our customers and our new marketing campaign, the “Human Network Effect.” She answers the following questions: 1. What is the focus of marketing at Cisco and where does it come from? 2. How are market...
2008-10-05  NGblog
I'm scratching my head on this one. During the Protect Marriage webcast, Maggie Gallagher, who appeared by way of videotape, said this: Just a few weeks after the Supreme Court, four Judges based in San Francisco imposed their values on the whole state of California, um, the Sup...
QuiltingAndPatchwork.com Throughout a very serious and lengthy illness, quilting has sustained my daughter.  She hasn’t been able to do any of her fabric art until recently, but when she was in the hospital, we’d take her quilting magazines to her.  Quilting buddies stopp...
, Potpourri , Mary , patchwork , quilters , quilting , Quilting , quiltmaking
2008-10-04  Letting it out
I guess I shouldn't have said that things can only get better...because they didn't. Cody called this morning stating that Eligh had a 100.4 fever. When the doctor came in I told her and she said to have him go into the office and that they'll be waiting for him and will ...
, The , Three
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photo source: Bully Pulpit Sarah Palin, the quintissential girl next door,tomboy, beauty queen, fish, Annie Oakley, David & Goliath, Esther,...is here in Southern California. Because I am an ophthalmologist I am most strongly attracted by her eye wear...(LASIK SURGEONS, stay away fr...
2008-10-04  Hope4Peyton
I have awesome friends. They have awesome kids. They love my kids. They touch my heart.  I have AWESOME friends. Mandy Willis is 7 years old. She has Neurofibromytosis and is battling Optic Glioma and other non-malignant brain tumors.  She and Rachael have bonded since we met in the ...
, Mayhew , Mom , daily , i , picture , rachael , the , these , things , believe , Peyton , poetry
For the past three weeks (okay two on and one off) DF and I have been searching for a church to attend regularly.  After visiting two completely different churches, we settled upon Grace United Methodist Church in Olathe, KS.  This was the first church we attended in the area, and ...
, FAITH , Church , Grace , GUMC , Methodist , Sunday , United
2008-10-04  f/k/a . . .
. . Roy Den Hollander vs. Ladies’ Night .. .. peering into the deep well, two boys talk about girls …… by George Swede - The Heron’s Nest Federal District Court Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (who’ll be 80 years old next year) bounced avowed anti-feminist Roy D...
, Haiku , law
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2008-10-03  ShrinkWrapped
Last night's debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden offered an interesting opportunity to watch the process by which people learn and change. Partisans will find a multitude of reasons to believe their candidate won the debate. For the partisan, gaffes will not matter (as long ...
2008-10-03  Dooneybug Days
That's it. I've had enough. No longer will I remain silent here on my blog just so I don't rock the boat or hurt someone's feelings. I'm not going to apologize or pacify my beliefs just so someone can like me or still read my blog. You don't like me because ...
2008-10-03  Kid Lit Kit
It’s Friday! You can sleep in late tomorrow but before you do, get the skinny on the kid lit blogosphere here at the Round-Up. Author/illustrator Bruce Hale wrote in with this comment,“If you'd like some help hooking reluctant readers in your school or library, may I humbly ...
, Grades , Grades , Grades , Jeremy , New , Picture
There are generally three main ways to define asexuality: in terms of sexual attraction, sexual desire, or sexual preference. Then, for each of these, we can frame the definition as being absolute (e.g. no sexual attraction) or gradient (e.g. little or no sexual attraction.) All of t...
, define , sexual , sexual , definition , asexual , identity
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2008-10-03  Powerfull Living
“We need to recognize and OWN that we create our own reality. As long as we have someone or something to blame for our life, we never have to look at ourselves.” – Lorraine Cohen Last week, on my way to do a presentation at a networking meeting for women in financial services, ...
, Courage , Personal , Spirituality , corage , fear , freedom , personal , personal , self-love
Okay, I suppose its about time I weigh in on the big election race, since that is one of the biggest stories around the nation and around the world.  I am sure there is considerable buzz and excitement within the disability/special education community concerning Sarah Palin’s ca...
, Ed , NCLB , Special , political , community , education , financial , interview , Palin
2008-10-03  Bird's Eye View
First, let's do "Heard on the Run:" On my jog today, I was disappointed. Here we are, the morning after the Biden-Palin Vice Presidential debate and I expected to hear lots around their face-off. Instead, I heard:"...so join us. Thursday night?""...knew him from a previous job...""....
JD was still pretty sick on Wed. so I decided if he was still running a fever over 102 on Thursday I would take him in.  Of course when I got him up he was at 100.8, drank an entire bottle and is happy as a clam.  By noon his fever was totally gone.  This does bring up an interestin...
, Life
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2008-10-03  Heather Hodges
This past weekend I was able to travel down to Abilene, Texas to care for my Grandma Ola who is nearing the end of her life.  She has colon cancer, but is inexplicably in no pain.  She is very anxious to “go on home” and is ready to leave this earth.  I fought back tears...
, Family
It’s kind of ironic that my previous post is about the support VA communities provide.  Because only one day later our darling Miriam, aged 24, died whilst her father and I were away in the country.  We rushed back home as soon as we heard. I’m not yet ready to resurface ...
, Author's , VA
2008-10-02  Indigo Girl
Yesterday I emailed A the link (left in my comments by Jen) where Ask Moxie talked about the 13 month sleep regression and the title of this post was his response: "Oh good.  They've given the pain a name."Last night was fine~she woke up at one point and went back to sleep within...
, Who
My aunt Lorna Wilson passed away on 13 September 2008. The following is the text from the addresses made at her funeral in St Andrew's Church in Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales on 19 September 2008.Address by meHow is it possible to sum up such an extraordinary lady as Lorna in just a ...
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2008-10-02  Fatherhood Diary
Just before Layla’s bedtime I ask her if she’d dance with me.  Usually she flat-out ignores me and continues trying to pull the dogs’ hair out, or whatever other important things she has going on, but then I just scoop her up because I’m bigger and a lot strong...
, Archives
I’ve always shied away from talking politics on my blog because I now how the topic can incite such strong emotions in people, both good and bad.  Now I am by no means a political expert, butI have been thinking a lot about Sarah Palin the last couple weeks and just wanted to...
, Infertility
This is yet another sad story.  Two girls ages 9 and 11 were murdered by their adoptive mother, and were moved from location to location until being placed in their mother’s freezer in her basement.  It’s a tragedy, and even moreso that this woman was allowed to adopt aft...
, Domestic , General
By Michael Walsh In the battle for business results, two contenders struggling for your attention are customer service and customer satisfaction. After searching for popular published works at Amazon, we found 63,049 results for customer service, and 20,084 for customer satisfaction....
, Business , amazon , apology , business , christmas , christmas , contenders , customer , customer , degree , michael , nbsp , perception , perspective , photo , scope , stack
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2008-10-02  Whistlepea Knits
Now that my two debates are over and all the interviews I had scheduled are done I have a little time to post! I started this trench before the campaign and worked on it a little here and there when I got a minute.  I think this was actually a blessing because it forced me to slow dow...
, baking , sewing
It’s official.  We lost our family room.  It was buried under toys.  It looks a lot more like a toy room than a family room, where everyone used to enjoy something.  There was a time when our family room was multifunctional with a big fireplace and comfy couches for reading as we...
This is a long post.  I hope that you will read it.  I've finally come to terms with who John McCain is and who John McCain has always been.   And tell me, who are today's men of integrity in the leadership of the Republican party?   Other than Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebrask...
2008-10-01  Slices of Stacy
I picked up Sweet Pea and we went to get DJ from the vanpool parking lot (one car, /n/, see $1900 fuckmegentlywithachainsaw). She was perusing a list of her classmates. Sweet Pea: This says A______, B_______, C__________, and here's Michael E. We have two Michaels, Michael C. an...
, Parenting
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Once again, we mark the passing of my biennial pilgrimage to my local radiology clinic to visit the soothsayer known as the HSG.  If you ask me, everyone should have their cervix threaded by a catheter and their womanliest organ flooded with contrast fluid whilst they lay on a hard ta...
, Fun , So,
It’s festival time here and I am baulking at how much people spend on celebrations, rituals and the accompanying firecrackers that are driving me crazy. It makes me so furious sometimes that people who have to work so hard and live a hand-to-mouth existence, just blow up their mo...
, Indian , soulfood , religion , religion , rituals
2008-10-01  Just Me
We actually have walls in the house!  The sheet rock guys were there yesterday and they got the whole upstairs and part of the downstairs done.  It’s really starting to look like a house now. Peanut and I go to the library all the time for story times, but today we went to the ...
, Uncategorized
This is Missy May.  She's a pretty good little dog, pretty healthy aside from an occasional mild allergic flare-up.  She came in yesterday because of urinary problems.  She had been squatting and straining pretty frequently for the last couple of weeks, and now she has had som...
, Urology
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Our EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Sue Bostrom talks about Cisco marketing, our customers and our new marketing campaign, the “Human Network Effect.” She answers the following questions: 1. What is the focus of marketing at Cisco and where does it come from? 2. How are market...
I can't believe so many people objected to this bailout plan. They wrote their congressperson and complained that they weren't getting their mortgage reduced but that banks were getting free money and that that wasn't fair since the banks are the ones that caused the problem. Are t...
, The , AIG , bailout , Bear , finance , investing , market , money , mortgage , phil , real , rule , rule , the
2008-09-30  AllMediocre
I’m in New York!  Tonight (Tuesday) is our “official” AllMediocHer ‘08 NYC get together!  Email me for more information…meghan(@)amomtwoboys(. )com. Because I’m in New York, this is going to be about food & it’s going to be quick and to the ...
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United Nations Foundation/Washington, DCUnited Nations Foundation/Better World Fund Corporate and Foundation Relations Senior Associate Vacancy Announcement OVERVIEW The Corporate and Foundation Relations Senior Associate is an integral member of a team tasked to form mutuall...
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Note to Readers: Be sure to catch the WonderCast of this blog post by clicking on the video at the bottom of the post! I recently received a package from my father stuffed with family mementos that go as far back as the late 1800s. Amongst the memorabilia, tucked in between a sepia ...
, Concepts
There are many items to consider before deciding to adopt a SaaS approach to your IT operation. Marcia Gulesian, a software developer, project manager, CTO, CIO, and author of numerous feature articles on IT, has captured the salient points in her article SaaS: Financial, Legal & Ne...
, Hosting , Integration , MSP , Managed , Negotiate , Outsourcing , SLA , SMB , SOA , SaaS , Tips , Wikipedia , cash , escrow , leasing , migration , opportunity , security , service , transition , web
Many thanks to Debra Condren, PR LEADS client extraordinairre, who wrote about PR LEADS in her syndicated column in NY AM Metro. The article is syndicated in Boston and Philadelphia. We picked up a few new clients thanks to Debra and her article. I wish I could link to the article, bu...
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