The Bare Essentials Today — Me....Unsuccessfully dating and laughing my ass off!

I just came up with a brilliant new blog idea. Julie Powell can suck it.

December 13, 2009

So, I rented Julie & Julia the other night. Great flick. Meryl Streep rocks in just about anything that she does and I love cooking so how could it suck?
But it got me thinking. Maybe I should start a new blog. I can’t do the whole cooking thing, it’s been done obviously. And on a [...]

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If you’re single, don’t go snooping around at Christmas gifts. It can only lead to bad, bad things.

November 24, 2009

This is a great little Christmas story from a few years ago. Let me set the scene.
Now, I’m a snooper. I always have been and I probably always will be. I remember snooping through my parents closet one year before Christmas and finding a Timex computer (OK, I know I’m dating myself here, but anywhose) [...]

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Cells gone wild!

November 18, 2009

I think the cells on my cervix have decided to start filming their own version of a Girls Gone Wild video. I’ll call it cells gone wild.
As if going to the gyno is not awkward and embarrassing enough, getting that phone call a week later really blows.
Nurse: Hi is this Essentials Today?
Me: Yes
Nurse: This is [...]

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Girl Talk Thursday – Work Sucks

November 5, 2009

So, this is my first time participating in Girl Talk Thursday. I’ve read some of the older posts and it sounds wicked fun, so I thought, hey, why not! Especially cause this weeks topic is Work Sucks!
All in all I work for a great company. We are mid-sized and I am in their Human Resources [...]

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REVIEW – Brandi Carlile Give Up The Ghost

November 3, 2009

The fabulous One2One Network has selected some people to do a review of yet another awesome album. This time I was lucky enough to get a copy of Brandi Carlile’s new album Give Up The Ghost.
So I’m tucked in, under my soft, velvety blanket listening to the upbeat vocal stylings of Brandi Carlile. Really wishing [...]

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Me…in the raw

October 26, 2009

So, I made a decision today. I have cancelled all my online dating profiles.
I’ve been wasting so much time checking all my different inboxes, waiting to see who, if anyone, has emailed me or checked out my profile. And it’s just wrong. Creating new profiles on 284759684727 sites only to find the exact same people [...]

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TMI Thursday – My toe hurts, not that one, the other one!

October 22, 2009

***Alright, folks, you know the rules. Join us all in humiliating the crap out of yourself every Thursday by sharing some completely tasteless, wholly unclassy, “how many readers can I estrange THIS week??” TMI story about your life. Or hell, about someone else’s***

Ok, a few years ago, my uncle was diagnosed with dementia. My aunt [...]

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I went into my Disney hotel lobby store for a cork screw and came out with a pair of crocs.

October 19, 2009

I love Disney. I love that I live so close that I can just roll out of bed on a Saturday morning, decide to go and be there within 1.5 hours. Well, I’d shower first, and have some coffee, check my emails, update Twitter and FaceBook. Probably more like mid-afternoon, but anywhos, you get my [...]

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Best friends are like four leaf clovers, hard to find and lucky to have. If only some of them would quit acting like damn thorns.

October 12, 2009

I have a best friend who I have known for the better part of 20 years (I always cringe when I can say I’ve known someone for 20 years. Yikes, it scares the bejeezus out of me.)
Anywhos….I guess I probably should have realized that the relationship would be tumultuous eons ago. Like that fateful day [...]

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