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Home Office Habits

Taking Action: Getting in Shape

December 13, 2010

Among many things, I aspire to be in awesome shape. Today’s Reverb prompt is on action- making ideas happen. What is my next step to getting into awesome shape. First, my desire to get into shape is not purely for vanity sakes. Being a mom and worker bee requires a tremendous amount of energy to [...]

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Making Stuff

December 6, 2010

The Reverb10 prompts have been a little too silly for me the last few days. I have enjoyed what others have written, but didn’t know what to write on that I thought I’d like others to know about. However, today’s prompt is interesting- What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? [...]

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3 Months and Self-Discipline

November 3, 2010

Over the weekend I was thinking a lot about self-discipline and how important it is in my life again. With my baby turning 3 months old, our company seriously picking up steam, and working on YFE everything I’ve wanted to be surrounded by is starting to take shape. To be able to enjoy it though [...]

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Pregnancy and the Work from Home Woman!

March 10, 2010
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I will be half way through my pregnancy this Friday and realized a few days ago that I seriously need to start thinking about how my work life is going to fit in with being a mom in a more detailed fashion! My husband and I have been married for 5 years this November and [...]

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All by Myself: 5 Steps to Beat the Work from Home Blues

February 18, 2010
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From August through the beginning of January my husband was working out of town and away from home during the week. I have never really known what being alone meant until then. Being lonely sucks. The feeling is magnified when you work from home too. I never realized how much having someone come home at [...]

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Trying and To Do Lists

February 11, 2010
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I watched I Love You Man (funny movie!) the other night and noticed a line I hadn’t picked up before (line above). I wrote it down on a sticky note today and posted it onto my white board next to the ‘To Do List.’ So much of what we do and who we are is [...]

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Do Girls Really Just Want to Have Fun?

November 25, 2009

More so than not, I think that while many women may think “we just wanna have fun,” we in actuality do everything in our power to undermine that. Growing up I loved the movie Girls Just Wanna Have Fun; I made all of my friends watch it, I knew the dances, and all of the [...]

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A Lesson in Entrepreneurship: Creating Success out of Failure

November 16, 2009

In creating and building anything there is always the possibility for failure. Failing at anything is a total bummer. However, with failure comes potential- potential to bounce back, to refresh, to create, or to look at something from a different perspective. My parents have taught me that you should never accept failure; to always go [...]

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Begin Gardening- CHECK!

May 11, 2009

I commented in April on a list of three projectsI have planned out for myself to accomplish in the near future. Finally, inspired by Sunset Magazine’s May issue, I have begun project number one- Gardening! I started with a test patch in our raised beds, going off of the article “How to grow veggies in [...]

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Favorite Home Office Time Wasters

April 16, 2009

I have fallen head over heels for Blip.fm What an ingenious idea for connecting people! The first day I set up my account a spent a few minutes searching through songs, choosing “Let the River Run” by Carly Simon from the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffin- a favorite movie of mine. The song is [...]

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