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Personal and Professional Musings

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  • It hasn’t been an awesome 2 weeks in my auto world. First, a slight fender bender left a hole in my bumper that looked alarmingly similar to a bullet hole. In New Orleans, it’s not a far stretch, but thankfully that was not the cause. Last week, I took the car to the body shop…

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  • Mets 9, Reds 7. Winner? Me.

    Citi Field (New York Mets): 7 Today was an exciting day. Today, ladies and gentleman, I continued my baseball stadium expedition and visited Citi Field, home to the New York Mets and, more importantly, David Wright. Who is awesome, in case you didn’t know. Jersey J and I took the subway (obvi) and were greeted…

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  • New blog rituals

    I have decided to adopt a new blogging habit. This new ritual will be called “Get Meaningful Friday” since the purpose of each Friday’s post will be to list the things that I currently enjoy in my life…something that maybe inspires me or that I’m just downright grateful for having as a part of/in my…

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  • The good ol’ days

    I have had some more free time than usual lately and by usual I mean it’s summer and there are no sports in session–yet so I have been dusting off my movie collection in the evenings and curling up on the couch with my personal Netflix collection (mostly because I haven’t stopped to buy Dallas…

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  • Technically B-Squared’s birthday is today but since Big Metal and she had a conference to attend in San Antonio this weekend (leaving today) we celebrated last night. Big Metal and I concocted a plan to surprise her with a celebration. Under the guise of a “low-key” dinner at a local dining establishment, we told her…

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  • My new favorite word

    My new fav word is vacay. As in what I just took, that found me in Destin, Florida. Destin might also be my new favorite place. It was incredibly relaxing and while I have been on some pretty stellar vacations before (Hawaii and my multitude of baseball trips come to mind) this one was probably…

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