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Catching up on my life

May 10, 2011
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A lot of things have been going on in our household that took my attention away from blogging but I’m hoping to be back to regular posting now. So here’s what’s new: 1. I was pregnant. Then I wasn’t. A day after we announced the pregnancy via the blog and facebook, we found out the heart had stopped beating. I was nearly 12 weeks along but the baby died at 10.5 weeks. We never found out whether “Sonic” was going to be a boy or a girl. A couple of times since then, someone has mentioned going to a...

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Tranformation in six words

September 3, 2010
Tranformation in six words

September 7. Day after Labor Day. Our lives transform in an instant. I work — first time in year. A nanny will watch the kids. Grace starts kindergarten. She is scared. Please pray we all survive unscathed.

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Fair vs. realistic in jobseeking

April 8, 2010

First, thanks to everyone who commented on my denied a job interview post, especially those of you whom I didn’t previously know. I enjoyed reading all your opinions. Thanks to those who said here and on facebook that you would hire me. Now I just need one of you to actually be able to do that. To those who said I’m probably better off not working there: I happen to know this is a good place to work and really values a work-life balance. And I don’t think they were put off by me being a mother. However, the...

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Perceptions matter

April 6, 2010

Note: This was written when my blog was called “Recovering Procrastinator” and was part of the impetus for me changing to the format and name the blog has now. I got an interview for a job I was really interested in. It sounded like a really interesting position that fit my skills well. The pay was good, benefits were great and it was in St. Paul. Pretty much everything I could ask for. Twenty minutes after receiving the information about who I’d be interviewing with, I got a call. I couldn’t get to the phone, and I listened to...

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Time to shine

February 19, 2010
Time to shine

I’ve got my spit rag out and I’m ready to shine things up.  My faithful followers: Here is my first post in my renewed effort to kick procrastination to the curb. My pseudo-maternity leave is over and it’s time to pound the virtual pavement to find the next step in my career. To that end, I wrote this post for Help a PR Pro Out.  Those visiting me for HAPPO: Like many journalists, I’m a procrastinator at heart but I am firmly determined to kick that habit as I move out of the ink-stained dredges of newspaperdom into the...

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Crafting your life

December 3, 2009

So who am *I*? I guess I don't really know. ... I will follow her journey while making my own, maybe now with a little more sense of purpose instead of blindly fumbling through each day just waiting for it to end.

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You’ll be hearing a lot more from me

July 1, 2009

Notice that this is one of only a few times that my subject isn’t prefaced with “to do”? Because I don’t really know what to do today … or any time in the near future. The last few days have been very strange. It’s disorienting to have no place to be and nothing in particular to do for an unforeseeable amount of time. I still have to clean the house, take care of the kids, pay the bills, and on and on, but I have all the time in the world to do it. Not a good thing for a journalist....

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One step closer to employment

May 21, 2008
One step closer to employment

Mark graduated from college on Sunday — sort of. He participated in commencement, but he has to take one more Spanish course before they’ll send his degree. His teacher licensing program starts in three weeks, and he’ll finish a year from August. We had a nice celebration on Sunday, with about 20 people coming over for lunch. I think Mark was pleasantly surprised by the turnout. We made way too much food though. Anyone want to stop by for some salad and cake?? The two-hour ceremony was at 3. My sister played with Grace outside for most of it...

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