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Little changes. I'm starting. Not sure where I'm heading, but I kinda like the simple feel of the new template of MaNiC MoMMy. I played around with wordpress and thought about moving my blog to another blog 'handler' or whatever you call 'em, but I've been using BLOGGER for five years and I'm comfortable with it, so I'm staying. It's what I know. It's simple for this simple-minded gal. I know

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This week marks the anniversary of FIVE YEARS that I've been blogging. I looked at the numbers. And yeah, we all know I hate math, but there are 365 days in a year. Take that number times five and you get 1,825 days. In 1,825 days I wrote 1,186 blog posts. Now that's not exactly one post per day or one post every other day, but it's somewhere in between those two, right?See I suck at math.Anyway,

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I just made up this joke and I expect that it's going to go viral and will get me the 15-minutes of fame I so very much deserve. Feel free to share it with the world, but please credit it to me:Why would anyone want to marry the UPS guy?Rumor has it he's got a huge PACKAGE!I have so much free time it's just deliciously inexcusable!

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Thoughts on New Moon:First and most important, while I’m not Ga-Ga for the Twilight series, I was thrilled to be able to say at the end of the movie that I am STILL majorly TEAM EDWARD, and I don’t care that his little English white belly is scrawny and I could take him down and put him in a pretzel lock with my own thighs, I still would take him over Jacob Lautner and his terrible Navajo weave

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I went to yoga today. Didn't want to go really, have been lazy, but I ran into my lovely awesome instructor at the grocery store yesterday and so that was another one of those signs telling me that I should be there today. So I asked her yesterday, "If I go tomorrow, will you go easy on the planks?"She said, "Well, I can't promise that."I said, "Well, I can't promise I'll be there then."Like

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Diva and I went shopping tonight and I wasn't really looking for one, well, I kinda was, but not really searching for one but this really cute coat caught my eye at Macy's and I tried it on and well, they were having a really great sale so far be it for me not to help stimulate the economy you know? So, I went up to the cash register to see how much it was on sale for, along with a pair of jeans

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In my last post I was talking about change. One of the things I am working on to change in my life has been the amount of sugar I eat.On November 1, the day after Halloween, I took all the Pay Days, Twix bars, 100 Grands, Baby Ruths, Take Fives (there were only a few of those suckers), and a couple other key candies and I ate them all. There were probably close to 18 or so. I took them because

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Change.Every day I look out my living room window at the same tree. I love this one tree in front of my house. Every day I think the same thing.What would it be like if I took a photograph of this picture every day from this same spot and then viewed the photos. I know what I would see. I would see a barren tree, as it is practically now, with only a few yellow leaves on brown branches. Then I

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So, Ajers and I had a date last night. Any time I can get him alone I like to offer a chance for us to talk, and I always ask, "Is there anything you need to know, anything at all you want to ask me?""Not really.""OK," I said, and kept driving. We were going shoe shopping.About five minutes later he decided he DID have a question."I do have a question!""OK, ask.""Was Dad the only person you ever

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So last night at 2 a.m. Tukey came running into our room and I just figured it was cuz of more aftershock of Halloween (he was in there that night too, saying he 'couldn't sleep, but I know some stuff still scares him). But actually last night he said, "My tooth came out!"I was like, "Cool, mfpahsshfsdlfjlsj, get in bed." And I tossed the tooth on the nightstand. Then I got smooshed in the middle

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My heart is racing out of my chest but I figured it would. Last night I met a woman in our neighborhood who gave up sugar because she kept getting these uncomfortable sores in her mouth because of sugar. (I'm not getting sores) but because she stopped eating sugar, she lost 10 pounds. I'm like, "Hey I could probably give up sugar, I don't even like it all that much, I just eat it cuz it's there.

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If you've ever even liked a song or two from Michael Jackson, you will want to see this movie. Oh.My.God. The dude is AMAZING. AMAZING! What a freaking performer. We were only halfway through the movie and I was like, "I already want to see this movie again to see the dancing and performing and singing all over again."I feel so badly for the guy. He didn't look sick. He didn't look malnourished.

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This is the longest stretch I have gone in almost 5 years without blogging, and I don't really know why other than I'm trying to figure stuff out. What kind of stuff I don't know. I don't know if people even come here anymore to read or what the point is of this blog. I fear my kids are too old now to make them the focus of this blog, and the really deep thoughts are thoughts that are unsharable.

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You all know how much I love my 10-year-old daughter, Diva (Of course, I have to remind you all that I have a daughter, and that she's 10 since it's been forever and a day since I've blogged). So, like AJers did in fifth grade, today is Diva's day to go to outdoor education with her class for an overnight.Overnight.Now, it was a little emotional to send AJers off last year, and I wrote about that

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The funk is back.((Soul Brother))Beckoning me from bed.To live and breathe and think and do.And be.But I withdraw.Back in my slumber.Not wanting to grasp its meaning.But it’s here again. Controlling me. When all I want Is to do and think and breatheAnd be.What does it want from me?To spew these words, pull them from the pen and .Then it stops.As quickly as started. At lost. It's lost.The funk

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So, I haven’t blogged in a while but I have a good excuse. I got whisked away to Florida for five days. It was lazy, relaxing and fun all rolled into one big HOT and HUMID time. Here are my FB updates which is kind of like a mini-blog post, and also my Tweets about my "Twip." Twy and cweate a short stowy about what you read here and post it in the comments!From FACEBOOK:is afraid that she might

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OK, so yeah, here I am. And am buzzed. I acutally cooked a dinner fot he family, and yeth, if there's bypo's oops, typos then that's how it's conng gonna be cause I am buzzed. but I have a story to tell you about my youngest son Tueky. Oops, Tukey. And yeah, I'm typing with one eye closed. The left one is closed ...So, Tueky Tukey is in some smart kid math at school and they had a word problem to

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Aside from mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, wife, in-law, writer, blogger, yoga-enthusiast, you can now add another to the list of things that I am:Murderer.I didn't see the critter coming across the street. OK, that's a lie. Add liar to that list. I saw the chipmunk scrambling to get to the other side. I always see them crossing, whether it's a squirrel, a chipmunk, a goose, whatever. And

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In almost five years I've never gone a whole week without you. I'm not sure how I'm feeling. Maybe I'll write about it later.

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Not lately.I haven't felt much like I've got anything to say so I haven't been jumping to the blog lately. I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure what I'm going to write here, so I don't know.See, I told you I was messed up.I just wonder what am I doing blogging? What am I getting out of it? What is anyone getting out of it. And this is not my plea for those who read to say, "Don't stop blogging." I

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I remember one time when my babbysitter Adrea [Andrea] was over and she said guy's it's time for bed.Oh No! I whispered to myself.Then she said Tukey it's time for bed. Then I said I want to wach more TV. Adrea siad no it's time for bed. Then I siad what I can't here you. Then she siad Tukey. Then I siad purple duck.Tukey!purple duck.Tukey!purple duck.Then I siad I'm waching more TV. I'm not

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So, the good news of this "U2 Good News; Bad News" post is that I went to the opening Chicago show of U2's new tour. The bad news, I didn't see any of it.Now before your minds start awandering, NO, I was not drunk and passed out. I got a migraine. A stupid migraine prevented me from seeing ANY BIT OF BONO. I spent the evening in the last bathroom stall fighting a migraine and puking.Who manages

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This is what I wrote in my journal on September 11, 2001, when Tukey was just nine days old.September 11, 2001Today is an extremely sad day for our country. An unbelievable thing happened killing thousands and thousands of people. Terrorist hijackers crashed airplanes into the two World Trade Center buildings in NY and they exploded and collapsed killing thousands. Then, two more planes went down

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Get ready folks! I'm live blogging during Glee tonight! Stay tuned ... update: you have to read the tweets from the bottom up:1. OK, I loved it, but really am not happy it's not more family-ish.4 minutes ago from web 2. #glee Though you don't have my bone structure!11 minutes ago from web 3. OH MY GOD!!!! #glee17 minutes ago from web 4. #glee what does she have to lay down for to kiss

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Isn't this beautiful! What are some of your life-defining moments?

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