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...my cough-induced migraine did not let up until about midday today, and i still feel a bit of a bruise in my right temple every time i cough. i didn't go into the office again, although i did do some work this afternoon when i felt better. i'm glad i

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...cold. migraine. been sick pretty much the whole holiday weekend and beyond. our whole family's been sick, actually. i'm afraid we may have passed on our germs to uncle charles and auntie ali who were visiting with us. i seem to be suffering from a m

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Conservative Christians Boycott Wal-Mart. ok, at reading just the headline, my initial thought was, 'finally! conservative christians doing something sensible!' and then i read WHY they were boycotting wal-mart: the radial homosexual agenda. i cannot

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bokumbop has tagged me for the meme thing, so here goes: 10 shallow things i'm grateful for (in no particular order) 1. metropolis lattes--have saved me from many a potential migraine. 2. chocolate--in any shape or form in mass quantities, preferably of

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...different outfit, same sassy attitude...

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...she is totally yelling at me to put my camera down...

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if you've read my post from august 7th, you know how i feel about breastfeeding. i know i've said before i don't consider myself a 'lactivist', but maybe i'm just in denial. because when i read about this following news story, i got really pissed off: "

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...what you see above is my 4th grade class photo. yes, i am old enough to have had a teacher who wore glasses like that. and lucky me—my photo is right next to the teacher’s. it’s hard to believe that 25 years have gone by since 4th grade. i still re

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...sometimes, when you have a feeling you should do something, you should take that as a warning and go ahead and do it. case in point, just last week, i had the feeling that we should remove the lock from our bathroom door before cadence locks herself i

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...on most work days, i take the metra train to and from my company out in lake forest. coming home, the train is usually so crowded that people who get on near the end of the line have to stand in the aisles and vestibules. yesterday, a young woman got

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...although i am not catholic (in the roman sense of the word), i do want to point out that today is All Soul's Day, which you can read about here in the Catholic Encyclopedia. i don't quite get the gist of the holiday from a catholic perspective, but i

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...we had the perfect autumn weather in chicago this past weekend—deep blue skies, fluffy white clouds, enough wind to make the falling leaves dance spiraling downward to their demise, cool crisp air to remind us we were definitely in the depths of autumn