Ramblings...

Does anyone visit me here anymore? I left quite a while ago so maybe not... If you do, well thank you... You can find me here now. See you ...

I'm in Wisconsin on a business trip. Even though I have never been to the midwest before, I knew when I was asked to come, that there wo...

I miss Randolph. The town I grew up in has a strange look now. I am a stranger. Nothing looks the same. I took the long way home from work t...

See what I'm doing right now? This here? This blog? This is my me time. My husband is somewhere else in the house and Stephanie is fast ...

I've quit before and came back. Stronger, I thought. Until I faded away again. But now I am back. Again. Stronger? I guess we'll se...

I was never one for resolutions. I never made them because I knew I would never keep them. Always a reason. Always an excuse. Somehow this y...

There was a place I would go to when I was in high school called Pond Meadow. A boyfriend took me there once and I was hooked. It's a pl...

Confession: I need a life. I realized this as Ken, Stephanie, and I were walking the aisles of the local supermarket that food shopping with...

"Don't go out now. It's raining." "It's fine. I'll be right back." "Okay, drive carefully." ...

Hi. I'm Jodi. I used to blog here. Sometimes I think I still do. I come back here from time to time with a thought. An idea. A statement...

I'm back to work and feeling great, atleast better than I did during the time the last post was written. My Benefits dept called me abou...

"How's Stephanie?" they ask. "Great," I answer. And she is. But what I don't add is that she doesn't sleep a...

I don't even know where to begin. I can't believe she'll be two weeks old tomorrow. I've never been so out of touch with the...

Two and a half weeks early, my daughter decided she wanted out this past Saturday morning. Beautiful, healthy and 7lbs, 8oz and 19 inches lo...

I'm ready. Last week, I wasn't ready. Everything was so overwhelming. I felt that as long as I still had unfinished projects at work...

Yesterday morning as I was relaxing with my Boston Sunday Globe, I glanced across the masthead and noticed the date. April 9th. I'm due ...

Four and a half weeks. That's it. Last night I had a few false labor contractions, which are completely normal, and it freaked me out. A...

I saw Crash, and loved it. I work for a company that has stores all over the world, and part of my job is to look into complaints filed agai...

I've been meme'd. 10 Favorites 1. Season: Fall 2. Color: Blue 3. Time: 6:30 - Home from work and still light enough outside 4. Food:...

Last night I went to Lincoln Park, a casino about 35 minutes away in Lincoln, Rhode Island. I won, Ken lost, but together we pretty much bro...

For our last official real nice date night out as "DINK"s (Double Income, No Kids), my family treated Ken and me to a fancy dinner...

Dear Baby, I realize that there are only 10 weeks left on your lease. I hope the accommodations that I have provided you in the past 7 month...

Is it wrong to want to see a company fail? To feel glee when you know the end is near? I worked for a small marketing firm. My main client a...

1. I wish cars would come with sensors that would indicate whether or not the driver would give you a 'thank you' wave if you let th...

My father called me yesteday. "Did you hear what Britney did?" "Um... yeah," I replied. "Why would YOU hear what Br...

Sigh... Tomorrow is my first day of my new job and I won't have trash tv to escape to anymore. I have no problem admitting to being a fa...

There was a recent op-ed piece in the Boston Globe about how Massachusetts is looked down upon by much of the country. Of course, it's a...

I was offered a job yesterday! They're sending me the official written offer (salary, benefits, etc.) in the mail and I'll need to c...

I am craving milk. Regular milk. Chocolate milk. Milkshakes. Can't get enough. I never drink milk, with the exception of in my morning b...

My blogging isn't something I talk about. I've mentioned it in passing to my husband who hasn't mentioned much interest in readi...

Granted, I started this blog in March, so we're not quite at the anniversary yet, but since it'll be January in 2 days, I figured I...

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people take life too seriously. Or more commonly known as, "The PC Police." Case in point. I ...

I've never been unemployed before. And now I am. I haven't blogged because I've been emotionally drained, but without actually b...

Saturday morning, I drove down to my car dealer to have my tires rotated and to have a piece of weather stripping that was coming loose on m...

I try not to post much about my pregnancy. Of course, it's a huge part of my life right now, but I don't want this to turn into a st...

aka... how I spent my Thanksgiving weekend. We headed to Cape Cod on Wednesday night to avoid holiday traffic. It was a pretty quiet night s...

I'm heading home today at around 1:30, will make my famous candied yams (and if time permits, brownies), shower, pack, and head to my pa...

When I was little, I remember a piece of paper hanging on our refrigerator. It was one of those sayings that my father must have laughed at ...

Please... go back where you came from. Stay out of my town. I beg of you. Wednesday morning at precisely 9 a.m., IKEA opened it's newest...

What better way to share the "wealth" than with others, right? A few posts ago, I mentioned how ridiculous the ongoing rain and la...

I have to go to the store on the way home tonight because I ate more than enough mini-Hershey's bars and mini-3 Musketeers bars over the...

This morning I played Dodge the Barrel on my way to work. It is so incredibly windy 'round here and every 5th house or so had a barrel b...

A little over a month ago, I woke up after a good night's sleep remembering a dream. In the dream, I was lying down and rubbing my stoma...

That's right. Red Sox Fever. I am a Sox fan. And now that we're thisclose to doing it again, I just can't control myself. Last n...

So I have something that has been distracting me lately. I can't tell you what just yet because I am that superstitious. And because I...