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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Happy Day, Oprah!

August 29, 2008 – 5:38 am

I used to have a lot of traffic to my blog looking for Oprah Winfrey’s birthday. Since I switched blogging platforms and deleted the old blog, I rarely get traffic looking for Oprah.
People came to read this post from 2006, January 29 to be exact, when I wrote about Oprah’s birthday.
Today is Oprah [...]

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long weekend

August 27, 2008 – 10:43 pm

I’m really looking forward to this weekend. My plans include attempting to restore some dignity to my flourishing flower weed beds.
When I walked out to the car this morning, I saw a weed that was at eye level.  Eye. Level.  I’m not sure how that thing grew 2 feet overnight, but it was not there [...]

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do you hear that squeaking sound?

August 26, 2008 – 7:24 am

Wondering:
Why do school personnel insist that J. does not need a 504 plan for her diabetes care?
When is school nurse going to return my calls about meeting with middle school administrators and teachers to discuss diabetes plan? I faxed in the diabetes care plan (signed by J’s endocrinologist) on the second day of school.  I [...]

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Personality Test

August 24, 2008 – 9:41 pm

I saw this over at Teflonjedi’s blog and thought I’d see how my test turned out.  It’s fascinating that 70 questions could pinpoint my personality so well.
Your result for The LONG Scientific Personality Test…
ENFJ- The Teacher
You scored 55% I to E, 37% N to S, 38% F to T, and 11% J to P!
Your [...]

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dinner

August 23, 2008 – 1:57 pm

Over the past year or so, I’ve made quite a few recipes from Kraft Foods and have really liked them. The kids liked them, too. This week, I’m feeling completely uninspired when it comes to menu planning, grocery shopping and food preparation, so I’m turning to Kraft to help me out. [...]

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no bolus

August 19, 2008 – 6:56 pm

Diabetes stinks. Having a twelve year old with diabetes stinks.
J. was very mean and not her usual happy self when I got home from work when I asked her to help bring in some things from the car. Then when I saw her having a snack- right before dinner - I asked if [...]

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laughter yoga

August 17, 2008 – 2:56 pm

Yesterday at the Farmers Market, Chrissie and I saw a little circle of people over to the side of the building taking deep breaths, making faces at each other and laughing. As we stood in line to buy some veggies (tomatoes, okra, eggplant, squash and cucumbers), we saw that other people in line were [...]

By Natalie | Posted in health, journal, watching | Comments (0)

Saturday 9

August 16, 2008 – 11:19 am

Saturday 9: Children and and Ages of Bloggers
1. Do you worry about your next birthday? Not one bit.
2. Have you ever lied about your age in the recent past? If yes why? No.
3. Have you ever lied about your age when you were young? If yes why?
4. How much older have you been than a [...]

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today

August 12, 2008 – 6:43 pm

Stress at work.  So much stress that I feel nauseated. For a life-long stress-eater, this is a pretty big deal.  And also probably not a Weight Watchers approved method of weight loss.
Snakes and tarantulas in the 7th grade science classrooms.  J. thinks she absolutely cannot go back to science.  She doesn’t want to be around [...]

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a big day

August 12, 2008 – 6:20 am

Today is the first day of school for my children.
It’s also the long awaited release of the latest Jonas Brothers album.
Get out your party shoes! 

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