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Ambiguously Shallow: 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Back in the day when I took the time to blog, I captured basically everything that was happening in my day-to-day life. But blogging is no longer my priority.or maybe it kind of got hard sharing my life with the public. Either way, when I try to think back over my year, I no longer can reference my blog, and my journal is more full of emotional entries than actual events. So Here I am attempting to review my year. 1 What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before? More ...
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Ambiguously Shallow: Mel
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013. It was the first day of cheer tryouts in 2007. She walked right up to me and stuck her hand out. Hi, I'm Melanie." She had a fierce handshake, infectious energy, and ridiculous long blond hair. She made the team. Not because she was the best girl- in fact she had a hard time holding rhythm back then- but because you just can't cut a girl like that. She's all American, the very epitome of a California girl. Throughout the course of her high school career, she became a regular in ...
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Ambiguously Shallow: On Girl Time
http://howtoreachkel.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-girl-time.html
Saturday, March 22, 2014. I fancy myself a writer and all that that implies. Translation: I have an excuse to be a homebody and pretend it's in the name of writing. I enjoy solitude.in fact I crave it. I use it to create, meditate, and watch TV I don't want anyone to know about. My alone time is amazing and precious. Most of the time. But then last weekend happened. A combination of stress (finishing ATD), lack of sleep, and life piled up and left me lonely and sad. Feelings I don't do well. So I'm back ...
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Ambiguously Shallow: Sister
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Monday, March 2, 2009. We almost lost her. She rolled her SUV going 62 mph and was thrown out. Miraculously, she is alive. Miraculously, so is her son, almost 1 at the time, who rolled with the car 8 times. They life-flighted her to Salt Lake City, where she stayed in ICU almost 3 weeks. He escaped with exactly one little scratch. I flew to SLC immediately to be by her side. Only I couldn't bear to see her in that hospital bed, tubes shoved down her throat, almost every bone in her body broken. Wow, that...
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Ambiguously Shallow: Love
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Saturday, April 5, 2014. All the classic signs are there: insomnia, butterflies in my stomach, general ecstatic feelings about life. I picked up Hank, lest he be swooped away like some unsuspecting prey, held him in my arms, and reveled in the beauty before me. In that moment, under wide blue sky, breathing fresh country air untainted by man, my soul grounded by the naked earth, I felt the peace and contentment I have been seeking lately. At one with myself. Whole. In love.with life. Follow me on Twitter.
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Ambiguously Shallow: Things I learned in Moab, Part 1
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Thursday, May 3, 2012. Things I learned in Moab, Part 1. Moab changed my perspective.in more ways than one. Today, because it keeps coming up, I'm going to talk about gratitude. I'm also going to quote the Bible. Really, I am, but more on that later. I truly believe that in life, when things don't go as planned, wise people walked away having learned something. I am not claiming to be wise, but I am claiming to have listened to what The Universe is telling me: be thankful. I am. Follow me on Twitter.
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Ambiguously Shallow: Twas the Day Before Christmas
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Twas the Day Before Christmas. 8216;Twas the day before Christmas, when all through this place. I sat on the couch with my palm on my face. 16 stockings waiting to be filled;. My one cup of coffee some asshole had spilled;. The children weren’t nestled all snug in their beds;. While visions of duct tape filled adults’ heads;. With sister in the kitchen and I sitting there;. Had just settled my brain from the throes of despair;. I sprang from the Web to see what was the matter.
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Ambiguously Shallow: The Real OC--and something different from me
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Saturday, August 6, 2011. The Real OC- and something different from me. The truth about me is, I am a lot more sensitive than anyone knows. There are many layers to me, so many that sometimes I can't even figure myself out. That being said, I wanted to share one of my favorite poems. It is a poem I had to memorize in high school, a poem that I inevitably recall when I am standing in the wide, open spaces of my hometown. The world stands out on either side. No wider than the heart is wide;. Looking into t...
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Ambiguously Shallow: My life might be ruled by hashtags (and/or parenthetical statements)
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. My life might be ruled by hashtags (and/or parenthetical statements). In case you're wondering if you felt the world stop turning momentarily yesterday, it did, and it's my fault. I left the house without makeup and I'm not even sorry. Because I see zero point in mascara when it's going to be promptly wiped off during my facial. Right before my massage but after my mani/pedi. This is how I spent my day off. That, and getting the grill of my car fixed. It made me reflect on h...
