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(+ plenty of dog adventures)

Jonah’s lemonade stand today was a triumph –– a $40 profit –– assisted by his charm, of course, but really he did have an astonishingly great location on the Greenwich Steps.  Parades of tourists passing by, ready and willing to purchase a cookie and a beverage (and most ...
Apparently, the line “Here’s looking at you, Kid,” is not in the screenplay of Casablanca, but is something Bogart said to Bergman often while trying to teach her poker between takes. One of the most radical things about Bikram is that you are more or less forced to look at yourself in th...
Last night, my fantastic Godchild’s Birthday Party (totally fun and lovely). Major progress at my morning jump rope routine.  (Seriously, getting boxer-worthy). Awesome lunch with Amy Ahlers and Susan;  spectacular food and even more spectacular visualizations. Fell in love with a new hangout, Cafe P...
Workout one today:  1/2 mile swim. Workout two:  Bikram (which nearly killed me). The other challenge (besides parking): I truly LOVE my scriptwriting program Final Draft Pro — seriously, I do –– but one weird quick has revealed itself. When I ran out of black ink, I thought ...
I’ve been playing a lot of Words with Friends lately and one thing that’s rocked my world is that — unlike with the scrabble program for my iphone –– these people often play to win. You can tell pretty quickly if someone’s wise and strategic, and if they are, you have to...
Susan thinks I can coast on this for more than a day –– but I severely doubt that will happen –– but I was ecstatic by my conversation today with my amazing producer about the script. Basically, she offered that it’s actually totally ready to send out, but she had a few sage s...
Today began my official Quantum Breakthrough plan and … it worked within five minutes. Well, technically, after I finished all my morning alignment work I checked my email and found that my producer really loved the script, which is ecstatically GREAT news.  In fact, I can coast on that for a fe...
Only 1,514 people were lost on the Titanic. I (initially) lost many more than that today with my largest mass-email because of Constant Contact’s Spam Rules. Less than 0.7% of my list complained of Spam (yes — less than 1%) but that was enough to get the account frozen.   [Their standard is 1 c...
— At least on Earth Day. And definitely if you’re going to Muir Woods on a Sunday morning, not knowing really registering that it is, in fact, Earth Day and that admission is free (and parking is therefore IMPOSSIBLE.) Went with Belle and Rhiannon this morning after her Crunch class on the Emba...