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Day 5: My Favorite Quote
Shoes can affect your personality and your mood. Have you ever noticed how putting on a pair of sneakers makes you feel shlumpy? But putting on a pair of stilettos makes you feel sexy? When I received that postcard from a friend, I was going through a difficult time in my life ~ I wasn’t sure where I was or what I was doing with myself. I honestly felt like I was emotionally and spiritually tapped out and I didn’t know how to pull myself together and then that postcard arrived in the mail… It was just what I needed to get myself in gear. I put on my cutest…
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Day 4: My Favorite Books
When I was a little girl, my favorite place in the world was the library. I was a nerdy little girl who was often the object of a lot of teasing and the butt of endless jokes, and the library was the one place the bullies never seemed to enter. The librarian, Mr. Wolford, would push a book cart my way and tell me to shelve. Or he’d slide a stack of books across his desk and say he thought I’d enjoy them. But it was my friend, Lisa, who introduced me to the joys of Danielle Steel when we were in about the 8th or 9th grade… I would…
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Happy Veterans’ Day
To all of my friends and family who have served, “Thank you” and to my friends and family who are currently serving, “May God bless and keep you. You are always in my thoughts and prayers.”
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Day 3: My Favorite Television Shows
Ok, at this point I’ve just totally given up on picking just one of anything… I’m 37 years old, there’s a lot of music playing, book reading, television and movie watching wrapped up in those years. I tried not to list every television show that I’ve ever watched, but I wanted to list shows that have some sort of sentimental or cognitive attachment. So without any further ado, here are my favorite television shows (by year): All in the Family (1971), Good Times (1974), The Jeffersons (1975)~ I just had to lump them all together. The writing on those shows was amazing and the jokes still hold up. They covered everything from abortion…
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Day 2: My Favorite Movies (Again, I Can’t Pick Just One)
I’m not a big movie person. I blame it on my ability to become totally distracted by anything shiny. Seriously, I have the attention span of a squirrel. But that being said, there are a few movies that will make me stop whatever it is that I’m doing and become totally engrossed in the story. In order by date (hey, I’m a librarian, I categorize things in my sleep): Imitation of Life (1959) ~ I found out at my dad’s funeral that his favorite song was “Troubles of this World” sung by Mahalia Jackson who sings the song in the movie at the mother’s funeral. My dad didn’t know this…
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Coffee Bars in the High School
A few months ago, I noticed that my kids were running around the house collecting any loose coins that they found lying around on the tables, in the car, etc. This didn’t bother me, I thought maybe they were being industrious and trying to save money, after all, they know that my husband and I have been collecting coins for years. Snicker if you want, but by the end of the year we once had a little over $600. But when they started hitting up my coin stash, I got suspicious. “What are you doing?” I asked Miss 13. She looked at me in the way that only a 13~year~old…
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Day 1: My Favorite Songs (I Can’t Pick Just One)
I love music, unfortunately, I’m not very musically inclined. Well, except when I’m in the car ~ then I turn up the radio and totally rock out to some of my favorite songs. Sometimes, if I’m really “feeling it” I’ll pull over on the side of the road and try to force the kids to sing along with me. I couldn’t pick just one song because there are are so many that mean a lot to me for various reasons, so I decided to break them down into categories and offer two selections from each one. Overachieve, much? Classical Somewhere in Time by Maksim Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini…
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I Started Crying at the Reference Desk
Earlier this evening there were 4 missed calls on my cell phone, two from my husband and two from Miss 17 as well as a text message that read: “Call Symone!” My heart started to race… I’m at work, what in the heck is so important that it warrants four phone calls and a text? So I called home and was promptly told “Mom, I’m putting you on speaker phone, ok? Is that ok?” I’ve taught my children to warn people before putting them on speaker, it spares people from any potentially embarrassing moments. I agreed and all I heard was “mumble…. static… mumble…. that was Grandma…. So what do…
