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When I walked into the kitchen this morning, it looked like this.  Whew.  Someone had quite the dinner par-tay last night. My sister-in-law came over and we exchanged Christmas gifts since she’ll be out of the country on the actual holiday.  The Husband made dinner, I made brownies, and it was loads of fun.  A [...]

I’m getting more and more nervous for my half marathon in January.  I know that I should “trust the plan” but maaaan – I’d really like to be running longer distances right now, if not for my physical strength but for my confidence.  Soon enough, I guess!   One of the reasons I feel so [...]

Happy Friday! Kind of like a mullet.  A breakfast mullet.  Business on the bottom, party on the top.  Or something.  Cornbread and eggs = the perfect pair! Spicy Quiche Cornbread   Ingredients (for 3 servings):   1 and 1/4 cup dry cornbread mix, which should then be prepared according to package directions (i.e. with all [...]

I never know if my blog makes it appear that 1) I’ve got it all pulled together, superwoman style or 2) I’m a hot mess (reality is that I’m somewhere in between).  But I’ll admit that, probably like most of us, I get way too stressed out way too easily.  After long days juggling work [...]

Guess where I am? Another hint: Yup!  I’m with my beloved Carrots ‘N Cake Tina.  Whenever I come up to Boston for a work event, I usually stay with her, which is so much fun and way better than a lonesome hotel.  We met a few years ago through blogs and became real-life buddies.   And [...]

The new Operation Beautiful book comes out on December 27!   Girls make up a huge portion of the OperationBeautiful.com audience.  They love writing positive, self-esteem boosting messages on Post-Its and leaving them in public spaces for a stranger to find.  They stick them in library books, on bathroom mirrors, and on magazines in the check-out [...]

We have a whiteboard on our fridge, and we leave each other funny messages.  I woke up to this gem: Hah.  So true, right?  I need to stop thinking about a lot of things and just start doing them.   Starting with… my workouts.  I spend 20 minutes working myself up to leave on a [...]

Well, the tree is up!  And that necessitated a room rearrangement.  The Husband actually did this – rearranging furniture is one of his favorite things to do.  Seriously. Please note the Maggie-Pippa dynamic in the above photograph.   The couch used to be on the opposite side, and the patterned chairs used to be facing [...]

A strange story that my fellow swimmers will especially relate to.  You know how if the lane already has someone in it, you wait on the edge until they swim up and say, “Hey, do you mind sharing?” and the other person always says, “No, that’s fine, of course we can share,” not only because [...]

Last night, the Husband, his brother, and his sister left to buy a Christmas tree.  They returned with this monster. That is one really, really big tree.  I think it’s about eight and a half feet.  In fact, the tree was so large that our tree stand wouldn’t support it.  So Mr. Tree is living [...]

Cages: When you’re in, you always want out, but when you’re out, you want in.  Conundrum. Putting on our fancy clothes for a ‘night’ out on the town.  I use ‘night’ cautiously because our night must end by 8 PM no matter what. We went to the expansion party for the local Y2Yoga studio.  They [...]

Wrapping up the week on a work note at the office.  We’re feeling productive, banging out meeting after meeting and task after task.  I think I’m going to go for a run in a bit – the running areas around the office are so nice, and I could definitely use a change of scenery! We [...]

Looks delicious, tastes disgusting. I tried to create my own pancakes with oatmeal and gluten-free flour, and something went horribly, horribly wrong.  Ah well.  That’s what peanut butter sandwiches are for, right?  At least the fried cranberry-apple topping was delicious. Yum.   Every morning, I end up dedicating about an hour to everyone’s breakfast.  First [...]