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Normal Friend Conversations

I sent a friend the following email this morning. Subject: preggers Did I tell you that I know 33 people who either gave birth in the last month or are currently pregnant?!?! Anywho…hope you had fun at dinner last night….

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Weddings: Food for Thought

There was a Do It Yourself wedding featured on the Style Me Pretty website recently that made me sing, “Hooray!  There’s someone else who gets it.” In the words of the Bride, “We had an extremely small budget…partially by circumstance…

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Non-Shit that I Buy

I spend a lot of time reading wedding and fashion magazines in preparation for the wedding.  I always like the spreads on editors’ or celebrities’ favorites.  Here’s a list of some of my favorite things. All undergarments from Gap body…

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Import Experience

In December, I fell in love with a piece of furniture that I saw in a design magazine.  It’s a chair made out of a suitcase.  The furniture designer is in Cape Town and when I inquired about the stock…

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Quality Control

Errors make me cringe.  My first job out of college, I realized very quickly there was no room for error.  I was a consultant and clients were paying me to think.  I triple-checked my work, then sent it on to…

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Happy Weekend

I’m so excited about this weekend.  Tonight, Lizzie and I are having dinner at Frances which I’ve been dying to try.  Every time I’ve tried to get a reservation, they’ve been full.  Watch for my Yelp review.  In fact, you…

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Floss Convert

I don’t floss.  I know, isn’t that disgusting?  Never have, never will.  I don’t have any more cavities than a normal person and the majority of them are from childhood.  So I went to a new dentist a week ago…

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Ash Wednesday 2010

Today is Ash Wednesday and it’s the one day of the year you can recognize who’s Catholic.  We have ash crosses gunked on our foreheads.  Catholics have various opinions about the significance of the ashes, but how I see it…

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So Happy Together

Speaking of weddings, I hear nuptial bells in the future for a dear friend of mine. I am always skeptical when I hear my single friends gush about guys.  I would know.  I used to be one of those girls….

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The Latest Wedding Scoop

One quarter to go until we get hitched and I’ve got my gazillion tasks spreadsheeted in Google Docs so I can wedding plan anytime, anywhere with my trusty Mac laptop and an internet connection.  Wooohooo!  Let the games begin. This…

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