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I just got through reading a book called Let's Pretend This Never Happenned by Jenny Lawson. It is a great book about an author who struggles through life(with a family)  and somehow finds the time to write .Her blog is some thing to read for people who are just starting out writing. It gives encouragement - even though life can throw a monkey wrench in your plans, you can still make it out on top. I wish I had time to read her blog from beginning to end ,but now that I've read this book I feel like I'm caught iup with the times!

Tuesday night’s Skinny Cow event continued with the main attraction – a screening of Dirty Dancing.

Jennifer Grey took to the stage to introduce the movie that, she said, changed her life. She also encouraged the crowd to make more time for girls nights out like this one.

“We have to do more of that, don’t you think?”

It was a beautiful plan. I haven’t any idea how long the preparations took them or if it was a spur of the moment set up. All I know is that I wish I would have thought of it, but instead they got me.

We all been in good relationships and in bad relationships.  When we break up, the question is "Do you remain friends with your EX?"  It all depends on how the relationship ended, whether you both had a big fight and just went your separate way or was it done in a respectful manner?  Sometimes that determines whether you will still remain friends with your EX. 

I’m a huge fan of both Dirty Dancing and Skinny Cow. So I was beyond excited to find out Skinny Cow is celebrating the iconic film’s 25th anniversary with a series of special screenings across the country. The festivities kicked off last night in Times Square – with a girls night out extravaganza that me and my friends Beth and Carmen are still smiling about.

I was going to write a post today about how women are crazy (I can totally say that because I'm a woman), but then I realized that men are just as, if not more, crazy. So in essence, we're all crazy.  Should we change that to function better in relationships? And how?

Let's start with what makes us crazy.

The phone rings in that annoying way it has – just when I have pulled wet laundry out of the machine or am frantically stir-frying dinner.  “Honey,” I yell to my son, “Who’s calling?”  He runs to the handset and looks at the name on the caller ID.  When he returns to me his eyes are wide.  “Well?” I ask.  He swallows. 

“OBAMA,” he whispers.

He is just so dumbstruck that I can’t help myself.

“Again?”  I answer, sounding exasperated.  “I told him I didn’t have time to talk tonight.”

“And this is the room where he pees everywhere…” my sister’s voice trailed off as she showed me the new office. If The Man with Keys searching for ET happened to be driving by in his van listening to private living room conversations just then, he would’ve assumed my sister was referring to her dog. However, the Man with Keys would have been wrong. My sister was referring to her husband.

As I walked out to the car last night with my daughter I heard the beautiful sounds of wind chimes on our porch. I had a few things on my mind and this melody was confirming what was running through my mind. My thoughts about “Trust” coincided with the dangling chimes.

Trust is a word that surfaces in my mind along with tasks, duties, and responsibilities of the day. Because of some problems with school I knew we needed some change and I needed to trust.

After awakening from a nights rest, an acquaintance of mine’s daughter, as she has done so many times, arose from her bed and walked to the closed bedroom door.As she turned the knob and pulled, the door failed to respond to her guidance.After a few attempts, she began to bang on the door and cry for help. Responding to the desperate and frantic cries, her mom came to the rescue.Although it took a minute to liberate her daughter from her bondage, after the use of a credit card, and a butter knife, they were finally able to pry the door open.