Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

Or is everyone else just bad? What the deal? I needed a caffeine fix today. I woke up with a SCREAMING headache. I had a tea right off, but when I got in it was still there. Part of it was the idea of making some web based forms or my job, argggggggghhhhhhh. I moseyed [...]

My regular readers (YES!!! I have a few. Thank you, wonderful ladies!) will notice that I have a split personality thing going on with my blog. My description says something like, “how my environment affects me”. It is so true. I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a scientist, a worker, a [...]

What a day I am having so far! And it is only 2pm (EST). It started off normal enough. I got up early (for me) because I had to wash my hair this morning, then I got to work. OK. Very normal. Started working, Normal. Then I had to leave to go to my allergist. [...]

This is the familiar cry of the new (or not so new) mom, as she is at work. She has just finished pumping, and she is now extricating her boobs from the cones off the breast pump. Either I an a pump-tard or this happens to everyone. I have been doing this for quite awhile [...]

We have a new shopping center down the road a bit and across the street from my job. I could probably walk there, it is so close. It is still under construction but so far the Home Depot, Target and Shoppers Food Warehouse (grocery store) are all open. We are further promised a Starbucks, Chevy [...]

Forget everything you have ever heard about Clinique. I know the Clinique camp is divided squarely in two. The half that loves the three step (hooray, my skin is beautiful) and the half that hates the Three step (WTF? Soap on my face?). I happen to be a member of the first half. Like everyone [...]

My Mom brought home a bag filled with mementos of my Grandfather. Apparently there was a t-shirt made up. I haven’t opened it yet. I guess I fell that as soon as I do, it will become real and my Grandfather will really be gone. I guess I’m just not ready to come to terms [...]

There has been a product recall for Small World Toys. The vehicles in the IQ Baby Pillow Soft Activity Blocks, the IQ Baby Traveling Train Blocks and the Discovery Channel Vroom Vroom Vehicles. We have the Vroom Vroom vehicles and I have to say I was sad to see the recall. Martin is two and [...]

It was a lovely six days in a row at home. The best thing was it was unplanned time at home. I just took it as vacation as I could get no work done with the kids, so I just hung around, playing with them. As soon as the weather cleared up, we went on [...]

I have been home since, basically last Friday. Not just last Friday, but a week ago Friday. I had a public speaking class in DC Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. I can barely remember what my office looks like. My mom was called back to Seattle for a family emergency, my grandfather passed. [...]