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A renewed sense of belonging

May 21, 2008

I’ve felt, over the last 5 months or so, that I’ve lost my blogging mojo.  Since I left my job, I’ve been wondering just exactly what to write about.  When I was working and writing, I felt comradery and sympathy from all working moms.  I honestly never got into blogging for the community aspect, really.  I [...]

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I need a life

April 28, 2008

The thing I miss most about working is that I used to have something else to think about.  Something I thought was more important than whether or not it was BS that the kiddie soccer program allowed there to be a “private” soccer lesson in lieu of the class they advertised. (The bitching got them to create a new [...]

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Text message remorse and rules to remember

February 25, 2008

In trying to figure out the best way to make, contact and keep new SAHM friends, I have to remind myself that everyone’s communication preferences are different.  My preferred method of communication is still e-mail – a holdover from my working mom days. But e-mails are harder to come by and typically the slowest method of communicating [...]

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Finally

January 9, 2008

The cat’s out of the proverbial bag, or I should say, office. No, I’m not pregnant. I quit my job. Last day’s next Thursday. I don’t have another job. I’m going to test out the waters of being an SAHM for awhile and see how it goes.  I mean, I do have a few things [...]

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The next time I decide to send out holiday cards…

December 17, 2007

I thought my fine tuned organizational skills at work would behoove me in ordering holiday cards this season, the first season I have ever send out holiday cards.  Boy, was I wrong.  A list of my comedy of errors: Cheaping out and buy the minimum amount of cards I think I need and then having to reorder [...]

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Dispensing tech advice. Who, me?

November 7, 2007

Getting dressed up and going to work occasionally has its privileges.  Like today, for instance.  I was able to wear my favorite new sweater dress and boots (it’s finally dipped below 50 degrees in Chicago, yay!), and could easily justify sneaking away for a few to attend a mom blogger event.  Add to it that I was able [...]

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It could be worse

October 11, 2007

As I sit here feeling bad for myself for various things, like missing my son’s pre-pre-pre school class because I’m working, I remind myself that things could be worse. A lot worse. I could live in a society where play dates are akin to being invited to the royal court and being on the outs results in murder. At least [...]

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What? You want my opinion? You sure?

September 7, 2007

Recently, I was able to sneak away for a few to help celebrate a friend’s birthday.  Of the 18 or so guests there (how she has time to keep so many friends, I have no idea) I was one of two that has a job outside the home in an office (was that PC enough?). Perhaps it was [...]

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Should I stay or should I go?

August 20, 2007

The word is officially out that my nanny quit and only gave me two days notice to find a replacement.  Everyone’s been so nice and thoughtful offering to help out anyway they can. So why is it then, that after my friends offer to help, they ask me this: Are you going to quit? Yes, I’m [...]

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I’m out of the closet. Again.

August 1, 2007

So a funny thing happened at work yesterday.  Somebody (ok, the head honcho)  tried to coordinate a “team dinner” for the evening.  Three years ago, an outing like this would have been a fun diversion after work.  Hell, if someone had given me the head’s up last week I would have happily accepted a freebie dinner [...]

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