When disaster strikes somewhere in the world, if the media and celebrity is on board especially, suddenly you see the surge of donations and fundraisers everywhere. But what about the everyday? Where did that overflowing of generosity and kindness go? Last week, my bus buddy was sitting with a bunch of other commuters waiting for the bus. There was no room to sit so I was standing around the corner. Once these folks got up to get on their bus, I moved in to sit down. There was a purse laying next to my bus buddy and I knew for...
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A lot has happened since I got back from Costa Rica. As I was coming to grip with how to take life a little bit easier, this shit went down in Bangkok. “How Did Thailand Come to This?” indeed. (And this report is pretty accurate and surprisingly unbiased.) My family home is literally in the war zone. I mean, they had been since the Red Shirts camped out not 200 meters down the street. Everyone is safe now, but my dad and brother, my uncle and his family, and our family maid were more or less held hostage by all...
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6 days in Costa Rica and I came back with a new look at life. I went 6 days without the internet (except for a 30 minutes I hopped on to check in with the hubby when I arrived and before I left), work, or television. I went 6 days without much of anything but gallo pinto, rum, and time. Yep. Nora and I didn’t do much of anything during our trip but relax and go with the flow. We landed in San Jose at 9 a.m. on Thursday and we were at Calilu restaurant to wait for our shuttle...
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Costa Rica, here I am! Yep. My BFF Nora and I are heading down to the beautiful northwestern beaches of Guanacaste region of Costa Rica for my friends’ wedding. The traveling Couch Monkey will finally get to be among his capuchin buddies! I just realized that this is my first trip abroad in 17 years. Well, you know, having come over to the U.S. being my last “foreign” trip. Since then, I have only gone home and nowhere else outside the U.S. Okay. I did set foot in Canada for like 15 minutes in college when we got turned around...
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No, I did NOT give up on Meatless Tuesday. However, I’m giving up on blogging about it. Guys, the Meatless Tuesday experiment has stuck. 16 weeks I haven’t wavered and my resolution is as strong as before. It’s just that now that Meatless Tuesday has become an established routine, writing about it seems, well, tedious. And absolutely unimportant. I have been tempted to drop it and go for meat a couple of times when I was stressed out. Sure, I wussed out and got nachos or something as bad for me on those days, but I managed to not eat...
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Anna of V (Morena Baccarin) : Dr. Sheldon Cooper of Big Bang Theory (Jim Parsons). Seriously. Watch V and see if at a certain angle and a certain expression of Anna doesn’t remind you of Sheldon! Timothy Olyphant (Justified) : Michael Weatherly (NCIS) : Chris Pine (Star Trek…okay not TV, but movie based on TV show). They could play brothers. Hot, HOT band of brothers with awesome hair....
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