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Hope you make some fabulous resolutions that you have an even more fabulous time breaking in the new year!
I’m off to a fancy dinner and too much champagne. Cheers!

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I love this idea posted on Let’s Have a Cocktail! Instead of throwing out your holiday cards, donate them to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. She says,
This is an organization for neglected, abandoned and abused children. The children earn money by removing the front of donated cards to make new cards sold in packets of ten.
It [...]

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Happy Holidays! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

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Every holiday my sister and my mom bake. They each bake their own dessert, they bake together, they help finish each others baking projects. I do not bake.
I tend to sit in the kitchen and talk to them, occasionally stirring or watching the timer if one of them has to run to the phone. It [...]

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It’s not a news flash that it’s been snowing in DC. I get that! But I could not pass out in my holiday party, excessive cookie eating stupor without posting a few pictures of Artie for all who love him. As always, he loves the snow and just wants to hop in it and dig [...]

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Hello adorableness on a Wednesday morning. I just squealed in my office!
Thank you to The Rockstar Diaries for posting and making today just a little sweeter!

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Why do bad haircuts happen so often? And why are they so tragic?
Poor Artie got a bad style last weekend when we took him to the doggie parlor. He really needed a haircut – look you can’t even see his eyes!
But the groomer basically groomed his head and tail and that’s it! So he looks like [...]

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Beyond all the wonderful things in my life (husband, puppy, family, friends, job, apartment, health)and the amazings gifts and surprises I enjoyed all weekend (VOLT, b-day cocktails, visitors), here are a few more things that made me happy on my actual birthday (Monday).
1. Warmer weather
2. Dramatic morning fog
3. Fog lifting, and sun shining
4. Dunkin Donut [...]

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As promised, here is the finale of my birthday weekend extravaganza.
A surprise trip to Volt with MJD and my parents! MJD made the reservation almost six weeks ago – is that not the best birthday present, ever!! According to what I’ve read, the place is booked solid now.
I was so surprised when we arrived – MJD [...]

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I am officially 30. Or I will be at around 4:30pm today.
I could be upset about that, but instead I will focus on the fabulous birthday weekend I just celebrated!
It all started with a little happy hour that my fabulous husband offered to throw me on Friday night! My sister arrived in town at around [...]

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