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Buried in Email

August 11, 2009 By
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Everyone says, "just write    about your    life". Well, that  graphic over there? That  is my  life right now.  Okay, so Ryan is helping out more  around the house than ever even when  he would rather be with his friends, and  Nathan is mowing the lawn now for  spending money, and Kaitlyn came up to  me the other day while I was wearing a  shirt that reads "happy mom" (all  lowercase on it) and correctly identified  all the letters, and that's what ELSE is  going on in my life, but mostly? It's email. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or on Facebook know that I've been posting a lot recently about trying to achieve this mystical state of being known as "Caught Up."  That I'm trying, so hard, every day, to not just stay on top of the emails but to get through the ones I've already opened that need me to do something. But people, I'm losing the fight and I don't know what to do. Let's look at Outlook as of today. Outlook is where I read the emails that come … [Read more...]

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When It’s Time To Change, You’ve Got To Rearrange

June 8, 2009 By

Oh Brady Bunch, truer words were never sung. My thoughts are so jumbled up right now that I'm having trouble even figuring out how to explain what I want to explain. This is one of those posts where I try to unravel the tangled mess inside my brain by attempting to channel the flow of thoughts from my head down into my fingers, so that maybe if I get the words onto the screen they will stop buzzing around in my head and let me get a freaking good night's sleep for a change. I spend entirely way too much time thinking about blogging. Hi, my name is Elizabeth, and I'm a blog-a-holic. Hi Elizabeth.  I lay in bed at 2:00 am, 2:30 am, 2:40 am, etc., and flying around in my head like annoying little bees are all these thoughts- I wonder how many new emails I have in Outlook? Oh crap, I forgot to start the Lands' End giveaway! They are NEVER going to want to work with me again.  Shoot, I was supposed to post that review of (insert name of book/CD/DVD/appliance/food product here).  … [Read more...]

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Hello from the Nestle Culinary Center!

April 29, 2009 By

cross-posted from MomCooks: Yesterday, Nestle flew me to Solon, Ohio to attend a day-long conference and roundtable discussion on the topic of Let's Fix Dinner. This morning we started out in the Nestle Baking Kitchen meeting with Jenny from VeryBestBaking.com and eating fresh-baked cookies (YUM). Then we moved into their Culinary Center which is like a huge kitchen with grills and a wood-fire pizza oven station and people chopping and grilling and mixing. There is Pecan-Crusted BACON, people. I am in heaven. We've only been here an hour and I've already been reminded of just how loyal I am to the Nestle brand. I've mentioned before that the only acceptable chocolate chip cookie as far as my husband is concerned is ones made with Nestle Toll House Mini Morsels. Other products made by Nestle include Carnation Condensed Milks, Libby pumpkin, Pria bars, Powerbars, and of course, CANDY. There's a little tray sitting in front of me with mini butterfingers and nestle crunch … [Read more...]

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