February 2012
37 posts
the hairpin: motivation →
A nice read on motivation & getting started. [click through to read]
[via ohheyitsdk:63words]
A few things
I took the GMAT this morning. It’s a terrible test, but I was pleased with the results. yay.
For the record, I would never have 10 apples (7 green and 3 red) & pull three out randomly. I wouldn’t do a lot of things randomly. I will never care about the probability that 2 will be green & 1 will be red. Just saying.
I also don’t care about any of the properties of x.
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WatchI enjoyed this skit of Maya Rudolph as Beyonce & Justin Timberlake as Bony Bear from SNL. All the impersonations were great. Thanks to my father in law for sharing.
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my list.
A few things that are making me happy lately (inspired by Lia):
My family. Facetiming with my niece. Visits from our family & just spending time together. Always too short, but always savored.
Chicago restaurants. My favorite places I’ve eaten in the past few months: Bite Cafe, Bleeding Heart Bakery, Table 52 & Slurping Turtle.
My clarisonic. I love it. My skin loves it &...
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Whitney Houston : My Love Is Your Love .
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siximpossiblethingsforbreakfast asked: Did you invent the idea of the Golden Hour? I have some inkling suspicion you did. And if perhaps not, I know with certainty that you are the one who introduced the concept to me. On days like today, I think of you. Happy Friday. xoxo
This Kind Of Life →
“Like many others I know of my generation, I was raised by parents who encouraged me to think that I had all the choices in the world, and all the time in the world to make them. We spent years being told that we could do anything, be anything – even our liberal arts curriculums let us play around in various fields for years before choosing a major, if we ever had to at all.
And that’s...
luck, it must be said, is a loaded word. →
luck, it must be said, is a loaded word. sometimes someone’s luck is nothing of their own doing, a result of the privilege of their birth. sometimes we mean luck in the purest way, the happenstance of sitting next to the right person on a bus. (this sort of luck seems practically mythical; one wonders if it ever happens.) but for many people, “luck” is something of their own making: they work...
“too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– malcolm forbes. (via littlelaur)
Happy birthday to my mom. Her laughter is absolutely contagious & something I can close my eyes & hear at any given moment. She’s happiness & warmth. She has pushed me for as long as I can remember to work hard, to be good, to help others, to remember family & your rootsalways, & to treat life like a complete adventure. No one has ever made me go out of my comfort zone...
Things to Worry About →
In 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with the following:
Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up Don’t worry...
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