1. While the world swirls and dips around me, there are some things that stay the same
2. Like lunch alone on Granville Island to still myself
3. A new crop of unsteady, frizzy little ducklings that appear on the duck pond every year
4. And comfort in knowing that someone is going through it all alongside me
5. These things make up a centre when everything else tumbles
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 28, 2009 at 12:19pm —
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1. Went like gangbusters packing and cleaning over the weekend, so I'm not flapping crazy with stress during the week
2. Due to the aforementioned, I've slept better and longer in the past two days than I have in I can't remember how long
3. The scale has been packed away, where it can no longer taunt me
4. Replacing feelings of being yanked from my home with images of lying poolside and reading in the sand
5. Dreamed that I was antique shopping, and I woke up pleasant
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 27, 2009 at 10:23am —
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1. A lovely pair of trousers I'd somehow forgotten about and found hanging in the coat closet
2. Ordering a new dish from a restaurant where I always get the same thing, and having no regrets
3. Seeing that I'd gained a couple pounds back and not launching into a mentally berating smackdown, but rather keeping calm with the fact that I now know how to shed them again
4. Finding and securing a new apartment
5. A Saturday evening to myself.
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 19, 2009 at 11:29am —
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1. Canada Dry, "The Champagne of Ginger Ales"
2. My staunch delivery boy
3. The
Grey Gardens doc, which I know I'll be watching again and again
4. The new
Grey Gardens trailer - doesn't Jessica Lange look like she's amazing it?
5. Getting carried away on You Tube and coming across old recordings like
this one of E…
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 15, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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1. Making a grocery list
2. IMing lolcats back and forth
3. Reading in bed before getting up
4. The potential of a bag of blueberries
5. Taking the whole holiday weekend off
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 11, 2009 at 11:51am —
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1. Dog-napping
2. A drive to the beach
3. A pebble in the hand
4. Bare legs
5. A long slow evening on the balcony
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 7, 2009 at 10:08pm —
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1. Scooting after dinner
2. Pretending it's not cold
3. Watching dogs strain their leashes for the year's first dip in the ocean
4. Realizing it's tiring to always be wanting things
5. A serendipitous phone call
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 6, 2009 at 9:56pm —
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1. Sitting on the balcony in a tank top and shorts for the first time in what seems like years
2. Lazily organizing recipes and reading cookbooks
3. Feeling utterly refreshed and peaceful after hours in the warm sunshine
4. Realizing that maybe I don't need to do a major overhaul on my 'tude, but rather, just get some more sun
5. First episode of season three of The Tudors.
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 6, 2009 at 8:48am —
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1. Going over to a friend's house for a little Saturday night get-together
2. No one else shows up and we have a relaxing, chatty time to ourselves
3. The scooter ride home is the warmest one yet this year
4. Getting home at a reasonable hour
5. Waking up to a weather forecast with degrees in the double digits, and I'm not hungover so I can go for a long Sunday walk.
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 5, 2009 at 9:16am —
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1. Being the very part-time person in the office
2. everyone's nice to me
3. and I don't get sucked into the politics
4. and I don't have to do lunch with anyone
5. makes me kind of mysterious
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 3, 2009 at 4:13pm —
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1. Clients calling ME up for work
2. Calling the shots
3. Not bartering over my rates or timeline
4. Knowing what I'm worth
5. TCB
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 2, 2009 at 5:05pm —
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1. Scraping myself out of the gutter
2. Writing Grace in Small Things posts again
3. Realizing I was the most negative person in the room increasingly often
4. Realizing how lucky I am
5. So many things
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Added by Amanda Nicole on April 1, 2009 at 9:26pm —
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1. Modern conveniences like fast-acting anti-inflammatories
2. Sangria in February
3. Waking up to the sound of birdsong for the first time in what feels like a very long time
4. Realizing how good to me someone normally is when they have an off day
5. Leaving a room and then coming back into it and smelling the burning candles anew
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Added by Amanda Nicole on February 22, 2009 at 9:38am —
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1. Making half a peanut butter & banana sandwich out of one piece of bread and smooooshing it together with my hands
2. Eating breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
3. Keeping a fishbowl of lollipops on the counter and watching guests dive into it with abandon
4. Creating a playlist of music to cook to
5. Realizing that most of my day is dedicated to either thinking about, eating, making, reading about or writing about food, and wishing that the rest of my d…
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Added by Amanda Nicole on February 11, 2009 at 11:29am —
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1. Watching Cream of Wheat bubble on the stove like a thousand tiny volcanoes
2. Cinnamon and brown sugar
3. Procrastinating work just because I can
4. Keeping a jar of candy on the counter
5. Returning home from a vacation only to appreciate home all over again
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Added by Amanda Nicole on February 9, 2009 at 12:18pm —
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1. Seeing morning sun rays for the first time in weeks and being reminded of the short story "All Summer in a Day," by Ray Bradbury
2. My sister calling me for advice
3. Compliments on my home
4. Discovering a new hairstyle
5. A walk on the seawall
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Added by Amanda Nicole on January 31, 2009 at 12:29pm —
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Day 20
1.
Beyonce singing "At Last" for the First Couple's first dance
2. Taking Tuesday off
3. Finding awesome exercise videos online for using the ball and the resistance band so I don't look like Jack Tripper at the gym
4. Baked Lays
5.
This soup
Day 21
1. Having more married gay friends than straight ones
2. Mom's homemade jam
3. The f…
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Added by Amanda Nicole on January 21, 2009 at 2:26pm —
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