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Well hello there, July 16th. Where have the last two weeks gone? Been busy soaking up the sun that finally came to Seattle – and as my GChat status says, “The summer sun makes me irresponsible.” Less time for blogging and computer playing, more time for outdoors, friends and barbecues. The best time of the year! Life has been trucking along quite nicely these days – I’ve got a...

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//via Flickr A couple weeks ago, I was out with some of my guy friends, drinking brewskies at The Polish House on Capitol Hill. (If you’re from Seattle and haven’t been, it’s a community center that opens on Fridays only as an Polish beer hall and restaurant. Totally awesome, I know). I can’t remember what exactly the topic at hand was, but one of them asked me something along the...

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This weekend I finally got around to watching “Up In the Air.” Super great movie. I like the kind of movies that make you think…about life and love. The pursuit of happiness or lack there of. One scene in the movie was absolutely brilliant, a dialogue touching on the “American Girl’s Dream” – a husband, house, two point five kids and a car – a dream that I...

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I’ve been thinking in my head about how I’d write this post for at least three weeks now. Do you ever do that? Write blog posts in your head while something is happening, after it’s happened, etc? I guess that’s the test of a true blogger at heart. If only I could have managed to get it finished and posted three weeks ago…some of you have already heard the good news via...

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… I feel like I’m on the convergence of some really fantastic paths that will take me places I’ve never been and help me to grow into the women I’m not quite become… …I’m training (rather quickly) for a 5K that I signed up for at the end of September. It’s a 5K during Seattle’s Oktoberfest, so I’m running TOWARD a beer garden. And then I have a...

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I have an interview in, oh um, 34 minutes. Just a screen interview – but at Amazon.com, so that’s pretty exciting. Right now I’m researching the group I’d be working for and going through my list of “Top 100 Interview Questions” that I used when I was trying to interview before I found my last job. I filled all of the interview questions in – and it’s super...

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It is a well known Je-fact that I am obsessed with marshmallows. I used to eat marshmallow cream out of a jar with a spoon in college (before my figure had to be watched), and I actually own a Marshmallow Fluff cookbook that a former roommate gifted me (you would not believe the recipes they come up with in the thing). My love for marshmallows has followed me around since youth. (You can read my ode to...

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I can’t…Stand country music. Draw anything other than flowers and stick figures. Stop obsessing about losing someone close to me. Sit inside on sunny days. Carry a tune to save my life. Be in a sexless relationship. Leave the house without matching earrings, shoes and bag. Throw a Frisbee. I can…Play the piano. Say I’m sorry. Read a 500-page book in three days. Obsess daily about what...

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Today I wrote a guest post for Just a small town girl… The blog author, Mandy, runs a series every Friday called “Lasting Impressions” for stories about best friends, lost friends, childhood friends, celebrating friends – basically anything you want to write about friendships. I wrote about how special my friendships are to me, and how hard they are to let go. And the dilemma I feel...

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This week I’ve been nothing short of extremely frazzled. See, I had a huge presentation yesterday that I’ve been up late every night and up early every morning, working on it, practicing it, losing sleep over anxiety and adrenaline, counting down the moments until 1 p.m. on Wednesday. I have this HUGE fear of public speaking. It freakin’ sucks. And it’s super bizarre cause I am.not.shy – most...