CT

Promises

August 12, 2010

I promise… …a blogher recap is in the wraps. …that I will announce the winner of my giveaway. …I will share my awesome news! …and some not so awesome news. …that one of these days I will blog consistently – not having a desk job kind of gets in the way of that. Here’s the [...]

Read the full article →

Fun in the Sun

August 7, 2010

This morning, I skipped on the AM Blogher sessions to go here. to do this… The yoga instructors talked a lot about gratitude. Gratitude for where we are, for the moment we’re in. For being able to do yoga on the beach and oh em gee. The yoga. The beach. The sunshine. All of it [...]

Read the full article →

Doing some good

July 25, 2010

Since Hubs and I moved to Connecticut this past fall, I’ve found the adjustment much more easier than the one to DC just after college. I got involved in the Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk and have met dozens of amazing, and inspiring ladies who do amazing things in the community. Not only that, but back [...]

Read the full article →

Goal Setting 101

June 16, 2010

I’m coming up on my 3 month mark at my job which means, next week I have what’s called my success meeting. A meeting to discuss where I’m at, where I’m going and how things are going. I’ve thought a LOT about my personal development, where I’m going, where I’ve been and where I WANT [...]

Read the full article →

Show me some sausage!

June 7, 2010

I like to think I’ve gotten ten fold better at eating better. Seriously. I have. I’m eating eggs not cereal for breakfast (per the suggestion of a coworker who told me I might as well “have a doughnut” if I was going to eat cereal. Who knew!). I bring my lunch every day. I eat [...]

Read the full article →

18…ish

May 10, 2010

I ran here today. It was a 6 mile hike there from our apartment. The first six were blissful. No traffic on the backroads through Old Greenwich getting there. Not too hilly. Just hilly enough to not be boring and keep me on toes. Then I got into the park with a smile and a [...]

Read the full article →

Namaste…or not?

April 21, 2010

So tonight I went to a yoga class with a coworker. It was an office space converted into a yoga studio with carpeting and floor to ceiling mirrors. There was an array of characters, including the lady behind us not wearing a bra, or the dude with m00bs without a top on. Whatevs, I don’t [...]

Read the full article →

Balancing Act

April 9, 2010

I had the luck of earning an opportunity to go to breakfast this AM with our GM – the regional one who happened to be in CT/NY for a couple days and one thing we got to talk about was balance. Happiness in not just one out of x number of aspects of our lives, [...]

Read the full article →

On Hold

March 31, 2010

I got an email today. Dear Substitute Applicants, If you are interesting in subsituting for Stamford Public Schools please give {redacted} a call at (203) xxx-xxxx. I applied to almost every school district in the area for a substituting job back in December/January. I was told they were turning them away because they had too [...]

Read the full article →

To the Mothership!

March 23, 2010

Tomorrow, I will get up at the butt crack of dawn, hop on a train in my cutest outfit, meet fellow Junior League gals, travel downtown in Manhattan, and see the MOTHER of all things organized and pretty. I am going to a taping of the Martha Stewart Show. Of course, this meant that I [...]

Read the full article →