Tag: life
member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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December 11, 2008 07:29 AM EST --
I tried to do a journal entry last night, hit post, and everything disappeared. So I gave up and went to bed.
I was home yesterday. I have a cold, but I feel like I turned a corner. If I take my vitamins, . . .
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December 27, 2008 11:06 PM EST --
Today was a good day. My son was going to take his driver's permit test, but we went to the wrong licensing place. He'll have to go on Monday, but the one we did go to was near the movie theater . . .
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December 29, 2008 08:30 PM EST --
It's only just after 7:00, but I think I will have to lay down. The kids are at a Christmas party and will probably bombard through the door in a couple hours, so if I rest now I will be able to greet . . .
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January 01, 2009 09:13 AM EST --
painfully.
I am very achy this morning, and I don't quite understand. I don't have a bed right now, so I've been sleeping on the couch, but the last 2 nights I've been able to sleep . . .
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January 02, 2009 07:49 AM EST --
After an impromtu early Saturday like day I am off to work for 1 more day, which will most likely feel like some sort of strange Monday/Friday Hybrid. Yesterday, I cleaned like a crazy woman so the apartment . . .
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January 16, 2009 07:49 AM EST --
Today was supposed to be the day that the deep freeze turned and the temps were supposed to start climbing ABOVE zero. And here I look and it's -21 degrees (this is temp, not windchill.) An hour ago . . .
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February 26, 2008 07:07 AM EST --
Hi everyone. I want to put forth a quick survey on families. What's your household like. Mine includes myself, my seventeen year old son, my fifteen year old daughter, my cat, and my daughter's . . .
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September 20, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
One of my personal downfalls is that I have never been a fan of planning. I internally cringe when I'm asked at an interview "where I want to be in five years." I don't know, and I don't . . .
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December 27, 2008 07:48 AM EST --
Today marks my son's 18th Birthday. Today, he is officially an adult. It's never been my own birthdays that made me feel older, it's been my kids.
My son skipped second grade, so he graduated . . .
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January 10, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
The thing about writing, or the creative process really, is you can't always create what you want in one sitting, and chances are you don't want to. In the new year I've decided that I want . . .
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January 24, 2009 07:28 AM EST --
Since I started my weekly blog several months ago it has been my intention to try to keep things positive as much as possible. I make life observations, relate them to my quest to balance the day job, . . .
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February 21, 2009 12:46 PM EST --
Yes, I have been elusive in my blogging for a while now, as I've been trying to get a rhythm going with a little more "practical" writing, on eHow and now Associated Content . . .
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March 14, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Last week my book club met. We read The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, which was very good-- although difficult to get through the beginning. The narrator is less than . . .
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April 22, 2009 02:12 PM EDT --
I have two recent articles that go along with Earth Day -- and green living in general.
How to be Empowered by the Sun from Associated Content
How to Light the World With Solar . . .
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November 22, 2008 10:11 AM EST --
Yesterday, the daytime temperature dipped below 10 degrees for the first time this season in my area, and yesterday I dug my winter coat out of the closet for the first time. I was fighting it. I wanted . . .
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March 07, 2009 11:54 AM EST --
So the weekend is here and I find myself with a large laundry list of things to do. Laundry included among them. I also need to go to the pet store to restock guinea pig supplies. Go to the grocery . . .
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April 18, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
This coming Monday, I will be heading to Marshall, MN to Southwest Minnesota State University to celebrate the life of one of my writing mentors, Bill Holm who passed away in February. I have spent more . . .
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October 04, 2008 02:24 PM EDT --
The Kitchen Table Phenomenon
The other night, I was watching the Biden-Palin debates and noticed that both candidates were trying to connect with the plight of the American people via their kitchen . . .
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September 13, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Last Thursday marked seven years since September 11, 2001 – a date that nearly everyone who is old enough or capable of remembering back seven years can recall where they were during the attack. I was . . .
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December 13, 2008 09:17 AM EST --
This past week I came across a DVD I had misplaced a while back, 13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner. In the movie Garner plays 13 year old Jenna Rink who, thanks to a little magic wishing dust, wakes . . .
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