Lake Tahoe is pretty in the winter, surrounded by all the high altitude, snow-covered mountains. Especially when there are no clouds. I didn’t expect to see Lake Tahoe anytime soon, although I had contemplated, and was about to talk to J about, a possible trip up to the snow sometime...
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Damn. This week went by fast. We had a couple of interesting things going on at work and that always seems to make time go by faster. We had a meeting with the Regional Director of the USGS on Wednesday and she talked about the realignment of the leadership teams...
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Here’s my theory: If you go shopping for something specific, you’ll never find it, but if you’re not looking for anything, you’ll find the coolest things. True!? At least for me, that’s why I went on a little spontaneous shopping spree last weekend. First of all, I went to Target...
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Happy Birthday to someone special :)  © November 2007, Long Beach, CA Today is my girl Kim‘s birthday. She isn’t too happy about turning 31 this year, so hop on over and tell her to have a fabulous day and not to worry about the number! I also want to...
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AÂ part of me wishes that I could vote in the primaries. Because it seems important. Because it seems like it really matters this time more than ever. But I am not a US citizen, even though I have lived and breathed this country for the greater part of the last...
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Seen at Kerri‘s blog: I want to: make a difference in people’s lives. do something meaningful. help people that are less fortunate than I am. carve out time for myself, daily. stand up for what I believe.… Read more
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Sometimes it really baffles me how in the world there are certain things you cannot buy in the US, the land of unlimited opportunity and possibility, without a tremendous amount of effort. I could talk about the non-existence of any kind of bread that would pass my nitpicking examination. [I...
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Seriously. The cleaning ladies in my office have quite some balls. I think I can quite surely assume that they’ve been the origin of chocolate disappearing from my office. My co-worker gave me a belated Christmas present when I returned to the office after New Year’s: a picture frame and...
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