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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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For one reason or the other, (* queue creepy Brittany Murphy voice* I’ll never tell…) I changed my G-Chat status last week to “I think I’m in love.” From which I was HOUNDED. Good lord. It started with an e-mail: “In love? Really?” Then from there, no less than 10 of my G-Chat friends… even some really random ones (and professional contacts)… asked me...

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Right now, as we *speak,* I’m sitting in my office, with just the light of a lamp and the glowing offices of the buildings across the street from mine in downtown Seattle. The office is void of people (which, actually, doesn’t happen quite that often in a tech startup. Usually there are developers working way past the time I leave). It’s eerie quiet. Here I am, all by my lonesome, eating...

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Recently I did the super awesome girlfriend freak out where it feels like your life and relationship is over because ________ (fill in blank). For me, it was, “You never plan any dates nights!” Honestly, I don’t know how The BF could possibly get a word in edgewise to plan a date since I’m always saying… “Do you want to go here…do you want to do...

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My boyfriend has a little boy, The Mini, who turned 6 today. I don’t blog much about The Mini, or dating a boyfriend with a child, because it’s a pretty personal decision of mine that I find more people are quick to judge than to understand. But, I guess there eventually comes a time and place for everything… When I first met my BF, the fact he was a father definitely scared the bejesus...

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You need to become my friend. This was me at dinner last night at a friend’s house: I’m the one in the middle. Obvs. Count em. Eight single guys. EIGHT. And I’m not single. Such a wasted mingle opportunity. But a great barbecue – nothing like eight guys grilling up their manly concoctions. We had Indonesian corn on the cob, shrimp skewers marinated in a chili and lime Thai-inspired...

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Last week, I spent a considerable amount of time with one of my guy friends, partying away his recent sorrows over the break-up with his live-in girlfriend of three years. I needed someone to entertain me; he needed a shoulder to cry on. We were a perfect match. Sometimes, it seems really hard to be a guy. They bottle everything up, and rarely have the outlet that girls have – a constant shoulder to...

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[Today is the day for Twenty-Something Bloggers fourth annual blogswap. I know I've been doing a lot of guest posts, giveaways and other things that have deferred from the regular scheduled programing, so after this, I will be returning to the norm for awhile and get back to my basics. For the blogswap, I was paired with the lovely 20-year-old James, who lives in England and writes for his blog,...

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[If you haven’t already, please enter my blog giveaway for five copies of Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s Quest for an Orgasm. Contest closes Friday.] When I first met my boyfriend, a little over a year and a half ago, he was a commercial fisherman in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Yes, like Deadliest Catch. It’s a running joke between us because every time it has casually come up in a group...