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Feels like home to me. : For now I'm grateful our journey is over, glad that my husband and younger brother are playing video games together, so happy to hug my puppy and kiss my mother, and I am looking forward to whatever comes next. (posted Dec 30, 1:31am)

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Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. : I wish that girls and women felt beautiful being exactly who they are. I wish men complimented women in their lives more and I wish women were kinder to each other. I wish we could all find the beauty in the people around us without first seeing all the imperfections. (posted Dec 27, 8:04pm)

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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. : I am grateful that Chris and I were able to spend Christmas together. In the five years that we have been together, we've only spent two Christmases together, and this one was our first after being married. Our relationship is a sweet blessing. (posted Dec 25, 8:30pm)

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All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go. : I felt almost sad as I started sorting through my clothes and toiletries, upsetting the order I had worked so hard to establish in a place that didn't feel like mine for a while. I love our apartment and where our things are, and moving them around has made me feel strangely raw. (posted Dec 25, 12:33am)

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Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. : My body is not perfect by the standards dictated by magazines and television. But I love my body. I love my scarred breasts because they are soft and sexy and real. I am learning so much about dressing my body in clothes that I love and that compliment my curves. (posted Dec 24, 12:32pm)

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Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. : She makes me laugh and she makes me think and she will never, ever give up on me, no matter how many stupid boys I make mistakes for, no matter how violently I tear myself to shreds, no matter how scared and confused and...Capricorn-ian I am. (posted Dec 24, 12:29am)

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Looking Back on 2009. : A year in review. (posted Dec 23, 9:15am)

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So this is love. : "Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!" (posted Dec 21, 12:29pm)

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Random Ramblings : It's our first married Christmas! I work crazy hours the day after Christmas and that is when Smudge gets taken to my in-laws. Then it's one day to get our apartment together and finish packing. We leave in exactly eight days. The last few months have just flown by! (posted Dec 19, 11:47pm)

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Tattoo-Versary. : I feel so very close to coming full circle. (posted Dec 18, 3:17pm)

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Where do I go from here? : Again I feel like I have to break down the wall that is up in front of me and forge my own path towards my bliss. But I have no idea where my happiness lies. All I know is I want to go home for a while and see if my heart--and my Goddess--will have answers for me. (posted Dec 17, 10:10pm)

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I'm every woman, it's all in me. : Being a 28-year-old woman in 2009 means having to constantly change my priorities and ambitions, examining both on a regular basis to see if where I wanted to go ten years ago is still where I want to be now. (posted Dec 17, 8:49am)

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Amazingly Good Eggnog. : Since I don't usually celebrate Christmas (it's not part of my culture), I don't do a lot of cooking or baking during this time. But last year I decided to make eggnog from scratch and it turned out to be so, so good. I plan to make some again this year to share with the family I work for and ... (posted Dec 16, 9:59am)

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Heart, I trust in you on this journey to the past. : The prompt for today is "Five Years Ago" and I decided to go back and look for entries that I wrote five years ago. There isn't one for exactly this time in December, but I wrote an entry at the end of November and another at the end of December. I'm sharing parts of both here. (posted Dec 15, 6:45am)

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I get by with a little help from my friends. : I'm starting to make plans with friends in Bangkok now, dinner dates and lunch plans at my favorite restaurants, and I am so looking forward to being around my friends again. (posted Dec 13, 10:14pm)

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A baby changes everything. : If there is a God, He knows the heart of me and I don't think He disapproves. I think that He loves me even though I'm pro-choice, even if I don't go to church, even if I believe that all people are equal and should be awarded the same rights. (posted Dec 12, 10:32pm)

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It was the first time I fell in love. : Nine years ago I thought about marrying a very special man who lived far, far away and made me feel like no one ever had. Nine years later we are married to different people, living different lives, chasing different futures. But the love...it's still there. And I hope it never, ever goes away. (posted Dec 11, 11:09pm)

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Birth is women's business; it's the business of our bodies. : The Universe had to pull an awful lot of strings to get me into that class and I believe, with every cell in my being, that it was meant to be in a way that very few things in life are. It was my Path, it was my Destiny, it was my Calling. (posted Dec 10, 10:31pm)

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Good night, sweetheart...well, it's time to go. : But I also know that these children will be my last charges and I will probably never be a nanny again after next summer. (posted Dec 9, 11:19pm)

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What do you say to jumpin' off the edge? : I will miss all of these things and so much more if we leave, but I am afraid that if we don't...I will lose most of what I love about myself, all the things that I have worked so hard to learn and become. That will never be a fair trade. (posted Dec 8, 10:24pm)

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Here I am. This is me. : I am counting down the days, the hours, the minutes until we board that plane and journey across the ocean to the city I have missed so very, very much. (posted Dec 7, 10:57pm)