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Working Moms

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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A room with a different kind of view

February 13, 2008

I remember fondly the days where I looked out of my office window into the vastness of the South Side of Chicago.  The cars! The lake! The daydreaming! Fortunately or unfortunately, I’ve left that great view behind me and onto a different kind of office. The coffee shop. The noise! The uncomfortable wooden chairs! The expensive [...]

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Bust out the pepto, Katie’s getting all political on us

February 11, 2008

I rarely get political on this blog, but Katie Couric’s 60 Minutes interview last night with Hillary Clinton has made me crawl out from under my keep-my-mouth-shut-about-all-things-political bunker. Uhm, what was up with that? Hil + KC = BFF I felt like I was watching a Barbara Walters Oscar special, not a serious interview with a candidate [...]

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No regrets

January 16, 2008

There was a point in time about two months ago where I made a decision not to go on a business trip because I didn’t have to, and things would be so much easier at home if I didn’t go. I passed on a golden opportunity to shine in front of senior management so that I could [...]

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O no you di’n’t

January 14, 2008

I sometimes wish I had a special super power that allowed me to zap a mom’s mouth shut before she said something stupid. Like the eye doctor I saw today to figure out why the F I still have pink eye. She was one of those perky, smiley, cute pregnant women who’s on her third kid, [...]

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Cashmere Mafia wraps itself in annoying stereotypes

January 10, 2008

Last night, my husband suggested that we watch the show Cashmere Mafia again.  I know he’s trying to be supportive about my transition out of the workforce, and truthfully, I’d be the last person to turn down an offer to watch cheesy girlie shows with her very straight husband. So I obliged, but as the show [...]

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Sorry, having a pet is nothing like having a kid

December 19, 2007

To all my animal-loving colleague, Thank you for sharing the adorable photos of your furry friend with me.  I had no idea  they actually made sweaters for dogs. Er, make it that people actually put the sweaters on their dogs.  I especially love the photo of Toto with the bow in his (her?) hair.  It’s [...]

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You know it’s office holiday party season when…

December 13, 2007

Santa looks like he threw up in your office lobby… ‘Tis the season to be tacky. Your coworkers bring flat irons to work so they can do their hair… On the fourth night of Christmas my true love gave to me a flat iron instead of a Japanese perm. And leave clumps of makeup on [...]

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And this is why terms like “mommy track” still exist

December 2, 2007

I haven’t been very good in keeping up on my blog reading lately, but a recent post on the Wall Street Journal Juggle blog recently caught my eye. Actually that’s an understatement. It pissed me off.  Not-so-subtedly titled, “Subtle Ways to Help Avoid the Mommy Track,” the post gives some advice for how women can [...]

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Losing My [control over] Religion

November 28, 2007

By now, you know that my nanny is quite religious and that on one occasion her beliefs have conflicted with a proposed activity for my son.  By now you know that I’m on nanny #3 and that our relationship has had its tenuous moments.  And by now, because I have not mentioned it in quite [...]

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