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So earlier this week I had high hopes for great posts about LittleBro's 22nd birfday, my fun, music-filled weekend, and a few other happenins....then, I got sick. Not little stuffy nose, coughing sick, but 101 fever, my body aches so much I can barely move, sick. Thankfully, the doc says it isn't strep, but it sure feels like it!

The result: two days of hanging at home, subsisting on chicken soup, OJ, water, Advil, and movies. Oh, and discovering great new blogs I'll share later.

Thank goodness for BestMomEver! I don't think I would've made it otherwise :(

Listed

I love my iPhone. In fact, I commonly refer to it as the magic phone, a direct result of spending most of my adolescence with a cell phone that looked like this:

zackmorriscellphone.wordpress.com

Just a few minutes ago, I used my phone to download music, share a contact (while talking on the phone) and email myself the picture below. I routinely use the "Notes" feature to keep track of things while I'm on the go (my three most used lists: Books, Cheap Good Wine, & Quotations). But as much as I enjoy the freedom and ease technology brings, I cannot seem to give up making lists on a good old piece of paper. There's a sense of order when I get everything down in one place and a feeling of accomplishment when I can cross things off.

This is weekend about accomplishing things. I have yet to have a weekend this summer where I can really tackle a To Do List, so that's the goal for the next two days.

Of course, I have some fun planned: Mat Kearney is playing at the club tonight on the patio!

Are you ready for some.....

FOOTBALL?!!!!!!!!!!

It's finally here. After months of tedious reporting about contracts, negotiations, and plenty of doom & gloom "if there's a season..." the NFL returns tonight! 

And the preseason is kicking off with my two favorite teams:

San Diego SUPER Chargers vs. Seattle Seahawks 

AT San Diego, 5pm ET

and 

Dallas Cowboys vs. Denver Broncos

AT Jerry World, 5:30pm ET

If I can focus long enough to work (doubtful) I'll definitely be humming "San Diego SUPER Chargers, San Diego, SUPER Chargers, CHARGE!"

so.happy.

Can't Stop Listening To....

I may not be nursing a broken heart, but I just can't stop listening to this song. It came on the radio yesterday and I was THAT girl: windows rolled down, sunroof open, music up loud, singing right along. 

And the original version by Sara Evans is definitely better than the one from "Country Strong". Sorry Leighton!

Wave Goodbye!

In my book, the "Wave" is nothing more than a nuisance at professional sporting events; it's always started (and enjoyed by) people who are clearly not watching the actual game they paid however much to attend. I think it's disrespectful to the players and to me, because I always seem to get stuck behind "that guy" who spends the majority of the 6th inning or the 3rd quarter trying to start the Wave. Dude, stop throwing your arms in the air, I'm already short, I can't see! 

So I smiled just a little when I saw this article about the unofficial ban of the awful fan favorite by the Texas Rangers. 

(espn.com)

Coming Back Down to Earth....

Today on my lunch break, after I'd enjoyed my leftovers from the AMAZING Matrimonio di Mare I had last night, I returned to my desk to do some fun Internet browsing for my last half hour. 

I bought a book which sadly won't be delivered to my Kindle until AFTER my trip to D-Town this weekend (any suggestions for something I should buy to read on the plane??) and then I began drooling lusting over these....

gorge.

and then moved on to these....

(seriously, why has my hunt for simple, beautiful wedges been so difficult this year?!)

Just as I was about to return to my daily duties at the office, I saw a sorority sister had posted this Huffington Post article on Fbook. 

Honestly, the title "How to Talk to Little Girls" threw me for a bit of a loop....it sounds kinda creepy, right? But, thankfully, I read on. 

The author, Lisa Bloom, has also written a book entitled Think: Straight Talk for Women in a Dumbed-Down World.

(After that title, I'm sure I don't need to write a summary)

The article touches on our society's natural tendency to compliment and praise children from a very young age, specifically girls, on appearance based topics: clothing, hair, physical attributes. I'm sure most people would never think twice about saying "Little Cindy, that pink dress you are wearing is very pretty." What harm could that do?

Bloom points out that compliments just like that, benign and harmless as the intention may be, teach us from early on that our appearance is a focus. Whether it is at home, in the workplace, in her group of friends, or even to strangers walking down the street, what a woman is wearing, how she is groomed, her general appearance will probably be a factor in how her intelligence and personality are perceived. 

I am not going to go off on some tangent about unequal pay or a rant about how airbrushing in magazines is bringing about the demise of our country...I've got yoga in the morning.

But the next time I encounter a young girl, I am going to make an effort to compliment her on or inquire about something that doesn't concern anything about how she looks. Who knows, maybe I'll get a good book recommendation out of it!