1. The therapist who sent me down this path
2. The
Ning network for supporting
Grace in Small Things
3. That well over one thousand members have made and will continue to make GiST one of the happiest and warmest little social networks on the internet
4. That when I began this project, I felt fairly defeated, but that now, a year later, I hav…
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 22, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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1. König Ludwig Weissbier, which tastes a bit like rootbeer
2. People that initially look like they are wearing a ridiculous costume, but then you realize that that is just their personal style
3. Overtired goofiness
4. Free shoes!
5. That I know people (*ahem*
Kate *ahem*) who put out awesome books like…
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 21, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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1. Fake bacon bits
2. Long, warm conversations with the
Palinode
3. Finally hitting over 25,000 words in
NaNoWriMo!
4. When we come together to create
a fabulous MamaPop Roundtable video
5. Objects that look like they ha…
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 20, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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1. Making sales on my first shift inside the actual store
2. Fudge sundaes
3. Smart birds
4. Take-out comfort food
5. Seeing a familiar object again for the first time
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 19, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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1. The moon
2. Mozza burgers from A&W
3. That the
Palinode came home to hang out with me at lunch
4. Waterproof mascara, because it keeps my greasy eyelashes from marking up the lenses of my glasses
5. When the sadness if fake
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 18, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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1. The golden light of evening on fall leaves
2. Remembering to breathe
3. Standing in a large public planter to get a photo
4. Photowalks
5. Reflections in puddles
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 17, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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1. Stuffed potatoes
2. A $50 gift card, which I will use to purchase more shoes
3. Free dinners
4. November nights that are still warm enough to not freeze your butt off
5. Radio interviews that go swimmingly
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 16, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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1. Cucumber slices so thin that you can almost see through them
2. These shoes, which feel fantastic on my feet
3. The delightful bonging noise my iPhone makes when I receive a text message
4. Finally unb0rking our wifi network so that we can access Facebook and Twitter and whatnot
5. Three kinds of cheap…
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 15, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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1. Chocolate fondu
2. When someone thinks I'm much younger than I am despite my rapidly greying hair
3. Meeting
another blogger
4. Falling in love with a pair of…
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 14, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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1. Finding skinny jeans I look good in
2. New black patent leather shoes
3. Paychecks
4. Greasy hamburgers with bacon
5. Overhearing one guy say to another "hey, brotha from anotha motha!"
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 13, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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1. Avocado rolls with excessive amounts of wasabi and ginger
2. Remembering to bring an extra pair of flat shoes to work to stave off torturous foot pain
3. Hickory Farms
4. Managing to keep up, if minimally, with my 2200-words-a-day
NaNoWriMo schedule
5. Rabbit fur, as long as I don't think too much about the bunnies
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 12, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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1. Pomegranates
2. Vintage board games
3. Finding myself on a 1000-word long writing roll
4. That when I throw a mini-tantrum on the internet, people are pretty nice about it
5. Sheepskin anything
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 11, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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1. Sicilian cannoli
2. The feel of writing with a grease pencil on meatpacking paper
3. When the
Palinode surprises me by coming home early from work
4. The Tilt-A-Whirl
5. The girl with the funky hair who stopped us in the street to ask for directions
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 10, 2009 at 11:10pm —
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1. Butterscotch ripple ice cream with chocolate sauce
2. That
Chibi helped me find my iPhone by calling it for me
3. That Chibi also
tweeted that I have a lovely voice
4. Marching bands
5. Ellen DeGeneres
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 9, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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1. Meeting
Mrs. Wilson in the flesh!
2. Sweet potato fries with mustard mayonnaise
3. Motrin, which makes all things possible some days
4. St. John's wort
5. Bermuda
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 8, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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1. Spicy chili sauce
2. A waiter honest enough to tell us that his boss doesn't respect his customers so that I no longer have to unwittingly support his business
3. Playing around with
Typekit
4. Walking to work
5. Short tables set deep into the floor in Japanese restaurants
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 7, 2009 at 11:09pm —
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1. Ciabatta loaf
2. Spewing out a couple thousand words for
NaNoWriMo and liking it
3. Singing 1980s tv show theme songs in the car, which devolved into a limping rendition of "Ebony and Ivory"
4. Power tools
5. Husbands what can do the tech stuff to make the computers do stuff when stuff doesn't seem to want to happen
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 6, 2009 at 11:46pm —
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1. Mall security
2. That one of my cats hates my singing so much he bites my arms whenever I do it
3. Famous people following me out of the blue on Twitter
4. Finding my voice in a narrative
5. Waiting for that first paycheck from a new job, which never gets old
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 5, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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1. The sharp flavour of raw onions
2. The sound of wind through tall grass when you are lying beneath it
3. Sea glass
4. Someone else doing the dishes
5. Extra thin cut deli meat slices
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 4, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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1. Nice insurance company nurses who don't mind three cats crawling through all of her stuff
2. Baking soda's amazing ability to de-stinkify cat litter
3. Orange shoes
4. A surprise gift of a painting
5. Whammy bars
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Added by schmutzie pickles on November 3, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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