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| New month, new blog… |
A new blog with more frequent postings! (Or so I say now...) Follow my daily postings in November at http://www.meanderingmoments.wordpress.com. Update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, etc. if you don’t want to miss my ramblings. |
Linda |
11/01/09 |
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| More culinary musings |
Before jumping into the actual entry, let me just acknowledge that it’s a lame title, and I know it. But the entry was written in about 10 minutes or less, and I’ve been trying to come up with a decent title for longer than that now, so I give up.… |
Linda |
08/18/09 |
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08/18/09 |
| Rebellion of the inner child |
I bought a box of Lucky Charms last week. I generally opt for the much healthier cereals like Kashi, but the General Mills cereals were on sale at Target plus I had a coupon, so I went for the Lucky Charms in addition to some healthier options. See, Lucky Charms… |
Linda |
08/13/09 |
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| Cheesecake topped with memories |
Two years ago today, I sat in an office and signed my name/initials to a giant stack of papers and bought my first house. It was a milestone day and one that I’m still quite proud of. But on this day, the two-year anniversary of that event, I keep thinking… |
Linda |
06/26/09 |
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06/30/09 |
| The waiting game |
As much as quilting is a journey to overcoming my perfectionist tendencies, gardening is a journey to overcome impatience. Gardening is a waiting game, but a worthwhile one. The tulips have come and gone, and this week the first of my lilies bloomed. I’m now anxiously waiting for the other… |
Linda |
05/21/09 |
3 |
05/22/09 |
| The road behind, the road ahead |
Every now and then I’ll find myself reading back through old blog entries and thinking about them in a different context from farther away. On a recent trip down memory lane, I realized that my new year reflections the past two years involved some mention of wishing to leave the… |
Linda |
04/27/09 |
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| Mother Nature = Crazy |
I’ve taken to daily walks through my little garden to check the progress of my various green flower stalks reaching up through the brown mulch and stretching to the sunlight. The tulips are up in full force and the first to bloom are even beginning to fade. The daffodils were… |
Linda |
04/05/09 |
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| A brief stop at magenta |
Magenta is one of those colors that varies depending on who you ask. I could search the web and find some varied CMYK codes for magenta. That might be fun, but then I could also search for RGB codes as well. And they would all disagree about what exact color… |
Linda |
02/25/09 |
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| Not exactly a tiger, but… |
Two weeks ago, I adopted this cute little guy from the Humane Society. Meet Truman. I had two guinea pigs back in grade school, and I’ve been thinking about getting one for almost a year now. I had checked a couple pet stores more than a month ago, but they… |
Linda |
02/23/09 |
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| Slumber before the awakening |
It’s that time of year. The time of year when I start to yearn for warmer weather and the first signs of green emerging from the thawing ground and barren trees. I’ve only complicated that yearning by starting to research and plan my first in-ground vegetable garden. I want to… |
Linda |
01/26/09 |
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01/28/09 |
| Beware the butternut |
Yesterday a coworker made a comment that she’s surprised there isn’t a line of guys waiting outside my office door to go after my cooking skills. The conversation began with a comparison of my cheesecakes to those from Hank’s Cheesecakes, a comparison in which my cheesecakes won, at least I… |
Linda |
01/21/09 |
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01/22/09 |
| 7 random things |
Joan tagged me long ago for this 7 Things blog entry, and I’m finally getting around to it. Basically, by being tagged I’m supposed to share 7 random and/or weird facts about myself. I’m supposed to tag 7 people, but most people who read this blog have already been tagged,… |
Linda |
01/14/09 |
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01/21/09 |
| Curiosity |
Recent enrollment in my flexible spending account at work got me thinking. It’s no surprise to anyone that Americans as a whole are rather unhealthy. We eat too much and move too little. And yet flexible spending accounts, which allow individuals to allocate pre-tax dollars to fund healthcare needs through… |
Linda |
01/13/09 |
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01/18/09 |
| Reflections on a clean slate |
I’ve long been a fan of starting fresh with a new year and a new calendar. Despite various attempts to go digital with my schedule and to-do lists, I always return to the good old fashioned paper variety. I would say pen and paper, but with me, it’s actually pencil… |
Linda |
01/06/09 |
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| New year, same plans |
Since last New Year’s eve at the Kennedy Center was so much fun, I decided to repeat the experience. The official blurb for the National Symphony Orchestra performance says “Join conductor Murry Sidlin as he celebrates his fourteenth anniversary leading members of the National Symphony Orchestra in this fun-filled annual… |
Linda |
12/30/08 |
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| Chaos and clutter, part two |
I work best under pressure, in typical Type A personality style, I think. Without deadlines, things life reverts to chaos. Deadlines are good. Procrastination, however, is not. And that’s what often before the deadline is looming just ahead and the pressure sparks me into action. Take this weekend, for example.… |
Linda |
12/24/08 |
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| Chaos and clutter |
Anyone who knows me well - or perhaps just anyone who knows me - knows that clutter seems to follow wherever I go. It stems from being both a packrat and someone who’s constantly on the go. I land long enough to put things down, add things to piles, or… |
Linda |
12/13/08 |
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| Fun with social media |
Social media and social networking fascinates me. Others may find it boring, terrifying, or useless, but I find it intriguing and just plain cool. What’s this crazy social media thing you speak of, you ask? It’s stuff like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, and countless other sites that create communities never… |
Linda |
11/17/08 |
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| No NaBloPoMo |
As evidenced by being five days into November with no blog entries, I opted to sit out of NaBloPoMo this year. (National Blog Posting Month, for those unaware. Otherwise known as the wimpy version of NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month.) While I’m still trying to embrace more frequent blogging, I… |
Linda |
11/05/08 |
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11/10/08 |
| Concert, anyone? |
The holidays aren’t far away, and while I’m entirely against the radio stations that start the Christmas music before Thanksgiving, some advance planning is required at times. Amy Grant and Vince Gill are bringing their Christmas tour to St. Louis on December 19. Anyone want to go with me? If… |
Linda |
10/29/08 |
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| Is it over yet? |
In the past several weeks, I’ve tried to remind myself that many people have far worse situations than a simple injured foot that should heal in a relatively short period of time. And then there are those days where I don’t really care and just complain about it anyway. The… |
Linda |
10/28/08 |
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| Things that inspire me to share recipes… |
This website makes me want to spread the recipes around in all their hand-written glory. I share recipes frequently, or at least when I remember that people have asked for one, but it’s usually via e-mail or a printed copy from my computer. Here and there, it’s a hastily scribbled… |
Linda |
10/21/08 |
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10/24/08 |
| Crossing the line |
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Linda |
10/18/08 |
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10/21/08 |
| Quieting the inner perfectionist |
The fact that I enjoy quilting astonishes me. Quilting is a perfectionist’s worst nightmare. Endless color choices and combinations. Exact measurements of sometimes uncooperative fabrics. Precise seam allowances piece after piece after piece. Yet somehow when I quilt, the perfectionist fades and the artist emerges. Simple love for the craft… |
Linda |
09/28/08 |
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| Leaves of gold |
Welcome to the first day of autumn. I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with the season, I must admit. Today it’s much more hate than love, but perhaps the love shall return soon. At the moment, the incessant sneezing, itchy eyes, and pounding headache resulting from the onset of… |
Linda |
09/22/08 |
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| Color! |
Entry composed in late August somewhere between St. Louis and Oklahoma City. At the moment I’m writing (although certainly not posting) this blog entry, I’m gazing out the window of an airplane at an incredibly layered sunset. The horizon off in the distance a deep brownish black with dark burgundy… |
Linda |
09/20/08 |
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09/21/08 |
| Drivin’ in style |
I’m officially one week into new car nirvana. After much internal (and some external) debate, several test drives, and lots of online research, I bought a 2009 Mazda 3 and said farewell to my 2001 Pontiac Grand Am with 116,000 miles. Ideally, I wanted that Grand Am to last me… |
Linda |
09/18/08 |
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| Glitter overload |
I’m not a glitter girl. Shocking, isn’t it? Sure, sparkly things are fun, but I never got into the glitter craze. Sparkles, good. Contained glitter, survivable when necessary. Excessive glitter, bad. Why is it that gift bags, particularly those of the wedding variety, are covered in glitter? Not just a… |
Linda |
09/03/08 |
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| No problem. Really, no problem. |
Back in the middle school or junior high days, like was all the rage. Like, totally. And it just became a habit. Something that got said over and over and over again. And again. And again. Until one day someone decided to illustrate just how often you said it. Soon,… |
Linda |
08/27/08 |
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08/28/08 |
| Blog? What’s a blog? |
Oh, right, this online space where I sometimes ramble on and other people, for some crazy reason, read it. Yes, I remember now. See, life seems to get in the way of blogging. There are all those famous blogger people whose lives ARE blogging, but mine? Not so much. There’s… |
Linda |
08/23/08 |
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08/25/08 |
| The perfect score I never thought possible |
I’ve been procrastinating about scheduling my annual appointment with my allergist for, oh, about six months. Why? Because it’s like going to the dentist when you haven’t been flossing. You know they’ll know. They have power. They know things. My allergist would know that I don’t take my medication every… |
Linda |
07/28/08 |
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08/07/08 |
| Still home, sweet home |
I realized in the midst of water heater chaos that I should have started a blog titled “adventures of a first-time homeowner.” Because the past year has certainly been an adventure. An adventure twinged with a little bit of chaos and frustration, but mostly fun. It’s so hard to believe… |
Linda |
06/26/08 |
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| Seriously? Why me? |
Are there gods of credit and finance? Because if there are, I’ve somehow angered them without realizing it. Seriously, if the water heater debacle and ongoing fight with the subdivision trustees and title companies weren’t enough, I now have stuff on my credit report that isn’t mine. They don’t appear… |
Linda |
06/23/08 |
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06/24/08 |
| Things I learned from Dad |
My parents? They’re smart people. Around many corners of childhood, there was a life lesson waiting. I like to think I retained most of those lessons, although sometimes it’s apparent that I’m still working on a few of them. In honor of Father’s Day, here are a few of the… |
Linda |
06/15/08 |
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| Garden visitor |
Yesterday when I planned to have a few friends over for dinner, the ever-better-looking summer fruits inspired my menu, so I began pulling cookbook after cookbook off the shelf in search of various inspiration. Ultimately, I settled on summer fruit sparkling sangria, mixed baby greens salad with honey citrus dressing,… |
Linda |
06/01/08 |
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06/20/08 |
| Synonyms for mad… |
My real estate agent told me that just about everyone hits a moment of buyer’s remorse at some point after purchasing their first home. Mine just took a complete year to hit. It was last May when I first saw my house and fell in love before I even stepped… |
Linda |
05/28/08 |
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05/29/08 |
| What’s hot water again? I seem to have forgotten. |
The building where I work changed management companies a while back, and the new company seems rather dedicated to making it look all nice and pretty. Fresh paint on the walls, stripped and shined marble floors, automatic toilets, wood and mirror paneled elevators, and on and on. Earlier this week… |
Linda |
05/16/08 |
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| Communication overload |
My cell phone often goes days without use. No incoming calls or texts and no outgoing calls or texts for days at a time. Most of my communication with my closest friends takes place online, with most phone conversations reserved for weekends. Thursday, however, it got plenty of use. Starting… |
Linda |
05/11/08 |
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05/16/08 |
| Not-so-shiny silver |
My beloved Mac Powerbook, nearly an extra appendage of my body considering the separation anxiety that ensues if I dare travel without it, is fast approaching the end of its existence. Sad, but true. It’s been a good friend. It’s not the departure of its shine that means it’s nearly… |
Linda |
04/07/08 |
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04/21/08 |
| Combinations of color |
My fingertips are blue. Well, not my fingertips themselves, but my fingernails have a distinct bluish cast to them today because it is FRIGID in my office. Sure, I’m cold-natured and generally always cold, but when my fingers are the equivalent of ice cubes it begins to interfere with my… |
Linda |
03/11/08 |
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03/14/08 |
| Green means go |
Do you ever sit and wonder about how it came to be that green is the color that means go? What if red meant go and green meant stop? Or maybe fuscia was the color of caution? It’s funny to me at times how so much standard knowledge gets instilled… |
Linda |
02/27/08 |
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| Traffic trivia |
Somewhere in a box of family photos in my parents’ house is a picture of me around the age of seven, dressed in a yellow and white striped tank top, yellow shorts, yellow visor and probably yellow socks. (Stylish, I know.) In that picture, I’m sitting on a steam roller… |
Linda |
02/18/08 |
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02/20/08 |
| Colorblog backlog post #2: ORANGE |
Many spring and summer days of my childhood were spent on The Orange Bug. The family pontoon boat had orange sides with white stripe accents, orange vinyl padded seats with storage beneath the bench, and orange- and brown-flecked indoor/outdoor carpet. On the gate separating the main boat area from the… |
Linda |
02/08/08 |
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| Colorblog backlog post #1: RED |
Inspired by the growing list of colorblogging friends (Joan, Kristen, Kristi, Tracie, etc.), I have decided to finally join the fun. Let’s just call it the Internet version of crashing the party, but it’s a worthy party that will perhaps lead to more frequent posts but not the post-party lag… |
Linda |
02/03/08 |
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02/04/08 |
| Monumental majesty |
This post, as with many others I’ve posted or not posted recently, should have appeared a month ago. A month ago, the experience was fresh in my mind. A month ago, I could easily close my mind and picture my surroundings. A month ago, I just didn’t make the time,… |
Linda |
01/31/08 |
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| Knowing where you’ve been |
I originally intended to write this post while it was still 2007, but oh well, here it is… The past year can best be described as challenging. There were times I nearly described it as bad, but in the grand scheme of life it was anything but bad. Just challenging.… |
Linda |
01/05/08 |
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01/05/08 |
| Little things |
In the midst of a stressful, busy, pre-holiday week, it’s nice to have little things that make me smile… Receiving not one, not two, but THREE Christmas cards in the mail yesterday. Two from friends and one from an aunt and uncle. Great timing as I had just been lamenting… |
Linda |
12/21/07 |
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| Anticipation |
I’ve been absolutely giddy for the past 12 hours. Well, let’s be honest, I’ve been relatively giddy for the past month. But after confirming my New Year’s Eve plans last night, I am ridiculously excited. That’s where I’ll be ringing in 2008. The official blurb says this: “Usher in the… |
Linda |
12/18/07 |
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12/21/07 |
| Memories and magic |
Contrary to popular belief, I am not going entirely incommuniblogo. I just needed a little break from the daily postings of NaBloPoMo. And then that little break turned into a two-week break. Really, is anyone surprised by that? But since I keep hearing how much my meager few faithful readers… |
Linda |
12/13/07 |
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12/17/07 |
| Racin’ the clock |
The annual work holiday party is to blame for my lack of a meaningful post today. Well, that and my housewarming party this weekend which means I spent all my free time cleaning. And now it’s nearly midnight, and I can’t fail to post on the LAST DAY of NaBloPoMo.… |
Linda |
11/30/07 |
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12/01/07 |