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If You Happen to Know Me, You Might Want to Hang Some Garlic
May 6, 2014 The Olive Gal 2 Comments
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If You Happen to Know Me, You Might Want to Hang Some Garlic

If you are someone who knows me and are years and years away from your timely death, you might want to do yourself a favor and hang some garlic or do a novena. Nearly every single…

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I Just Can’t Quit You, David Tennant
May 1, 2014 The Olive Gal No Comments
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I Just Can’t Quit You, David Tennant

By now everyone knows I’ve been going through some difficult stuff. People dying all willy-nilly. Babies taking a look around in my apparently hostile uterus and saying, “Welp! I think I’ll take off early. I’ve got…

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Picking Up the Pieces
April 30, 2014May 31, 2018 The Olive Gal 2 Comments
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Picking Up the Pieces

So life carries on. So on and so forth. A tragedy happens (again) and rocks your world and for a while you watch it go by on the sidelines. You sit behind a haze of grief…

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No Day But Today
April 18, 2014 The Olive Gal 3 Comments
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No Day But Today

I seem to recall thinking that 2014 was going to be a good year. Last year was a financially frustrating year for our family, punctuated by a miscarriage. I banged out this sanctimonious blog about how…

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I Have No Idea How Far Along I Am in My Pregnancy and It’s Driving Me Nuts
April 9, 2014June 3, 2017 The Olive Gal No Comments
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I Have No Idea How Far Along I Am in My Pregnancy and It’s Driving Me Nuts

Yeah, you read that right. In today’s world of struggling to get pregnant, visiting fertility clinics like those at Gurnee location, the time of super prenatal care and ultrasounds at 7 weeks pregnant and fertility and…

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My Parents are Coming to Visit!
April 2, 2014April 3, 2014 The Olive Gal No Comments
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My Parents are Coming to Visit!

Two more days until Bev and Fran make their grand entrance here on the West Coast! Yaaaay, my parents are coming to visit! They’ve had quite a winter back in Mass. In fact, isn’t it snowing…

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TGIM
March 31, 2014May 31, 2018 The Olive Gal 2 Comments
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TGIM

Most people greet Mondays with a begrudging sigh of defeat. They’ve got a full week of work ahead of them—five whole days until they can relax and kick up their feet to enjoy two fleeting days…

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Chain Letters are Making a Comeback
March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 The Olive Gal 2 Comments
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Chain Letters are Making a Comeback

What does LL Cool J say? Don’t call it a comeback? You’re right, it’s not. But I’ve had two chain letters in different forms come across my path this week, and I find that oddly satisfying.…

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Reality Bites Makes Me Misty
March 24, 2014 The Olive Gal No Comments
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Reality Bites Makes Me Misty

Maybe it’s just the pregnancy hormones talking here, but I watched a little Reality Bites tonight and it made me ache for my youth in a not-so-superficial-how-fast-can-this-life-go-by-and-why-are-things-so-different-now kind of way. It’s crazy to think that this movie…

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Book Guilt
March 19, 2014 The Olive Gal 1 Comment
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Book Guilt

A colleague said to me recently about starting a blog for my company that I would soon suffer from blog guilt if I didn’t update frequently enough. I’m well aware of blog guilt—it’s part of the…

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