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Something to Chirp About

Posted in Peaks & Valleys on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Fly on over to For The Birds to check out my second guest blog appearance. I think I’ve finally hit the big time. Please line up for autographs to my right. http://forthebirdsblog.com/guest-birds/melissa-s/

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Wax Me a New One

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged on December 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I’m off to Mexico next week, so that means one thing – time for the dreaded Bikini Wax. I like to compare this unfortunate-but-necessary beauty ritual to visiting your therapist, OB/GYN and dentist all at the same time. I both look forward to it and dread it. I look forward to it because, in a weird [...]

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What’s a girl gotta do to find some Hanukkah candles around here?

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been a bad, bad Jew. How bad? I can’t even remember the last time I celebrated a Jewish holiday. I think it was in my early 20s, about 15 years ago (cough, cough), when I was visiting my dad when he lived in Montreal. It was Passover, and we celebrated it not one, but [...]

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Prince Charming is really gay

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , , , , , , on November 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Yesterday my mother-n-law took me and Kaya to Disney Princesses on Ice. Three generations of women attending GirlFest 2009 – and loving it. As far as the eye could see, there were little girls dressed in princess costumes – Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Snow White. Kaya, whose Cinderella dress is a little big on her, [...]

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Why I yell at Tupperware, and other tales of frustration

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There are certain things in life I don’t understand. I’m not talking about how television works or how rockets can fly to the moon or why men get intense pleasure out of watching football. I’m talking about more mundane, every-day-life stuff that sometimes just plain stumps me. And frustrates the shit out of me. Like for instance, [...]

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Pink Gorillas and Beer

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , on November 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Sometimes, you just got to wonder why God made beer. Or, rather, why the Oh Wise One would give men such an affinity for Bud.  Because the results really make you go “hmmmm.” The day after Halloween, Siig got up early in the morning to make a 9 am tee time with the Pink Gorilla, a.k.a. our friend [...]

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Hello Tribe, so glad you found me!

Posted in Peaks & Valleys on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I am super excited that one of my posts has been selected to be featured on Aiming Low’s “Three Day Weekend” (it will be up tomorrow). I practically had to threaten bribe the Aiming Low girls, but they came to their senses and recognized true genius and wit when they saw it. I call the women over at [...]

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Low Maintenance Girl with a high maintenance problem

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged on October 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »

I used to be such a low maintenance girl. I’ve never been into “products.” On my bathroom countertop sat two face creams (one for the day, one for night) and one body lotion. That was it. I don’t wear make-up. I don’t put anything in my hair except shampoo and conditioner. Heck, I don’t even own [...]

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Best Worst Gift Ever

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , on October 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Yup, I don’t post for almost two weeks and now here I go with two posts in two days. Confusing, eh? But 1) I now have the time and 2) I have some inspiration for today’s post from The Accidental Mommy, whose “Too True Tuesday” assignment this week is to write about the worst gift you [...]

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What I learned from 16 strangers

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , , , on September 29, 2009 | 11 Comments »

So I have been pondering how to sum up my first “blogger” weekend, where I spent two days with 16 strangers – all women bloggers, most of them moms – in Sacramento. Since I probably couldn’t do it justice in a few sentences, I thought it best to write up a list of the Top [...]

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