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Take a look around, isn’t she purrrrrrty? I’m so excited to have a long awaited new home here. Many thanks to my lovely designer, Thauna! Many more good things to come here. Now, I’m off to enjoy my other Mother’s Day gifts: R1 & R2! My little handfuls. Hope all you Mama’s out there are [...]

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What it is, yo. Sing the following words to Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA‘: So, I put my hands up their playin’ my song, the butterflies fly away… ay-ee-ay-ee-ay-yay-ah, there’s a party at gabbingwithgrace, ay-ee-ay-ee-ay-yay-ah, there’s a party at gabbingwithgrace! =)

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nevergiveup

I’ve been doing a lot of never-give-up tweets or facebook status updates. Even my Google+ bio reads, “Never Give Up.” Life sometimes feels like a giant fist and we measly little chumps start off as rock-hard punching bags, but over time are completely beat up by it. I hope I’m not coming off all woe-is-me. [...]

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better-mistakes

For the past few days I have been thinking “what the $#^%$&^% did I just blog?  About pornography?  About me?!?!?!” On my run today I was listening to the TED talk; Doctors Make Mistakes, Can We Talk About That? by: Brian Goldman. After his talk, I was glad blogged on pornography…and…me. Brian helpfully admits how [...]

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If you’re catching up here, read Part I. So. One of my best buds had thrown out the gauntlet, “why you, Grace?”

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photo credit Brainiac/Joshua Glenn

I like to build stuff. Not with brick & mortar, though I don’t mind building a Lego tower or two. What I like to build is much more elusive, which is a fancy way of saying the results can’t always be quantified, which is another way of saying I like to drive myself crazy building [...]

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People Who Write Goals KEEP THEM! (Shocker)   I’ll never forget the little snippet I read in a Reader’s Digest Magazine a few years ago which argued that people who write down their goals are 85% more likely to actually follow through on them. For the past 3 years I’ve been writing my yearly goals, [...]

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ls2_038RickMoranis

Have you ever seen Little Shop of Horrors?  It’s a musical about a nerdy florist who finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. With blood.

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