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Painful Beauty? No Thanks

MomGrind — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:45 +0000

Funny, sure, but also very real - while I look nothing like the woman in the commercial, I often find that there's a huge difference between how I carry myself outside, in my jeans and heels and tummy held firmly in, and the sheer joy of getting home, going to my bedroom, and peeling the annoying layers of street clothes off. Finally I can breathe!

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Painful Beauty? No Thanks

Airports

MomGrind — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:00:56 +0000

Airports are strange places, I think as I stand in front of the gate waiting for my father to arrive. His flight is not the only flight to arrive this early afternoon, and a flood of people is coming through the gate. Faces, strange faces, blur into each other, all looking the same. They are special to someone, I'm sure, each of them possessing the ability to light up the face of a few loved ones. But they are strangers to me, and they are annoying because the human clutter they create interferes with my ability to locate my father in the crowd.

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Airports

At Some Point, You Just Stop Reading This Crap

MomGrind — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:00:55 +0000

I was bored, what can I say. I stopped buying women's magazines years ago, but when you sit at the hair salon getting a haircut, it's either staring at your familiar, boring face as the stylist works, or picking a magazine and reading it. I chose the latter, and as I was reading, leafing through page after page, I was thinking, how can so much crap fit into one magazine? Of course I had to share it with you, so despite horrified glances from the stylist, I started taking pictures. Here it is - a thoroughly depressing collection of ads and editorials, aimed at women, from one of the top fashion magazines in the world.

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At Some Point, You Just Stop Reading This Crap

My Life Is Kinda Boring

MomGrind — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:08 +0000

A week in Buenos Aires makes you realize just how boring your life in a quiet San Francisco suburb is. Of course, I love my life - I have stated so plenty of times on this blog - but my life IS kinda boring when compared with the intense energy of a big, vibrant, bustling, never-quite-asleep South American city. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, but I'll spare you the photos of landmarks and monuments. Much more interesting is the street art and the graffiti - the city is basically covered in graffiti, some of it beautiful, some of it, not so much. It is also one of the dirtiest cities I have ever seen:

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My Life Is Kinda Boring

The Cleaning People Stole From Us – Plus Inevitable Thoughts on Human Nature

MomGrind — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:00:52 +0000

That morning, in addition to sweet, reliable M. and E. that usually clean our house, we had two male trainees in the house. They greeted me as I left the house to run a few errands. When I returned home, the house was clean and fragrant. I smiled to myself. It's so good to come back to a clean house! Later that night, we found out that my daughter's Nintendo DSi was missing. It wasn't in its designated basket in the living room, where I had put it that morning. It was nowhere in the house, and as we were frantically searching, I suddenly remembered the two strange men and there it was- the sudden realization that we are victims of theft.

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Great Expectations

MomGrind — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:00:12 +0000

The first night of Hanukkah was beautiful - candles shining bright in the Menorah, delicious potato latkes and Hanukkah jelly doughnuts, saying the blessings and singing together. Family time at its best and just as I had envisioned.

Teacher Holiday Gifts: My 2 Cents

MomGrind — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:00:24 +0000

Make your life easy. Make the teacher happy. If you want to buy your kids' teacher a gift for the holidays (and this is optional), by all means go ahead and do so, but avoid the "Best Teacher Ever!" mug or any mug for that matter. In fact, it's best to avoid anything made of ceramics, anything personalized, and anything that the hundreds of Yahoo Stores that sell personalized gifts tell you you should buy.