Formerly Gracie

{Monday Morning Status} How to Find Bliss in Your Work Life

September 3, 2012

Monday Morning Status is a weekly roundup of interesting articles found on the web. Sometimes around a specific topic. Sometimes not. This week’s topic is How to Find Bliss in Your Work Life 10 Tricks for a Fabulous Workday Inc. Magazine Want to have the best workday ever? Day after day? It’s not as difficult […]

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First Day. First Grade

August 27, 2012

Last Thursday night, my parents, my daughter, and I accompanied Scout to “Meet the Teacher” night at his new school. We were the first ones in the classroom. My sister, the teacher, told me it was valuable to be the first ones in the classroom, so we were. Scout’s new teacher had the room laid […]

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Eight Inspiring Quotes from Neil Armstrong, First Man to Step on the Moon

August 26, 2012

Monday Morning Status is a weekly roundup of interesting articles found on the web. Sometimes around a specific topic. Sometimes not. This week’s roundup is a tribute to the inspiring words left to us by Neil Armstrong, astronaut and first person to step on the moon. Over the weekend, we woke up to the sad news […]

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{Project 137} Day 1 of Living Fully

August 24, 2012

Today’s prompt for “Living Fully” is to copy the following quote somewhere- a notebook, a piece of paper, etc- and simply… well, take note of it. Man. Sometimes things just hit you between the eyes. I had just published my previous post titled “Hitting Reset” and was about to head to bed when I remembered […]

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Hitting Reset

August 23, 2012

Earlier this week, Mike started his new job (and brand new hour long commute… both ways). On Monday, the kids will be starting new schools. It seems as though life has moved along swimmingly for us. Or at the very least, it has gone on as it always does. I think everyone is finally excited […]

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Five Interview Questions That Companies Should Stop Asking

August 22, 2012

I have been in an ongoing interview process for several years due to either moving or a change in our family’s situation. I will preface this post by saying that we have moved a lot… and not just across the town or down the street, but around the world. I have been on both sides of the […]

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{Monday Morning Status} Back to School

August 20, 2012

Several months ago, I tried to start sharing a regular round up interesting and informative post from around the web. Fittingly, it was called “Weekend Round Up” and it was short-lived because…Well, I fell off the face of the Earth. Okay, not really. I just got very distracted and stop blogging for a while. As […]

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{Review} Sony CyberShot TX20 Goes on Summer Vacation

August 9, 2012

This summer, we traded the coast for the country club, mountains in the distance for Texas thunderstorms, and 75 at the highest for “surface of the sun”. Yes, we moved back “home” to Dallas-Fort Worth this summer. We haven’t had much of a proper summer vacation, but we’ve still managed to find some fun things to […]

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