Monthly Archives: November 2009

A Different Kind of Thanksgiving

By Erin | Published: November 30, 2009
So, Wednesday and Thursday were rough, but the holiday weekend improved once the actual holiday was over and there were fewer reminders of all the family we weren’t seeing. The Thanksgiving dinner we had at John and Michelle’s was delicious, of course, and how’s this for random—one of their family friends who came over for [...]
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Happy Black Friday

By Erin | Published: November 27, 2009
A new vacuum (that actually works–imagine that). A couple sweaters. And leopard-print heels. That’s better.
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The First Thanksgiving

By Erin | Published: November 25, 2009
Tomorrow will be the first Thanksgiving we’ve spent without seeing any family. We had plans to spend Thanksgiving in Florida and Christmas in North Carolina but at the last minute things got switched up and so we find ourselves in North Carolina, all by our lonesomes. Everyone’s going out of town, it seems. Or having [...]
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Rocket Launches and Orange Trees

By Erin | Published: November 23, 2009
Lately, instead of renting movies we’ve been watching ones we own and haven’t seen in a while (imagine that). Last night, we cracked out Apollo 13, and I must say, even though I’ve seen it probably about a dozen times—my parents bought it on VHS, and I was an only child, so I tended to [...]
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Finish Line

By Erin | Published: November 20, 2009
The only way to accurately describe this week would be through a series of grunts, but I haven’t quite figured out how to translate those to words on a screen yet, so I’ll do my best without them. Let’s see, on four of the past five days I have taken care of one of three [...]
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Outtakes

By Erin | Published: November 17, 2009
Two women, mere yards from the entrance to the National Zoo, stop to take a picture of a squirrel standing beneath an oak. When the toddler I babysit passes this book with a picture of Nixon on its spine, he points to the picture and says, “Baby.” Walking from the Metro stop to the entrance [...]
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I win.

By Erin | Published: November 13, 2009
Up by 5:45 this morning! In bed by 8:30 last night, reading. Lights out by 9:30. Full night of sleep and I’m actually getting work done before Friday’s events begin.
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