Every year for the past four years, the middle of June means I am going to go home, evaluate the rooms in my home and want to buy new paint, new flooring, new furniture and new accessories. That's because every year in June, I watch Three Rivers Association of Realtors and all of the other sponsors choose and transform the room of one of our readers in the Dream Room makeover contest. So, I asked Linda Loebach, owner of Designology, for some makeover tips that any homeowner can use.
I really do. And through my monthly series, job for a day, I learn not only more about why I love my job, but a little bit about why my readers love theirs. For the month of June, I followed Suzie Stockwell around. Stockwell is a wedding and event planner at the Renaissance Center in Joliet. She loves her job as much as I love mine, so following her around was a real treat. And, I had some unexpected perks; like running into Adrianne Curry.
I am not really crazy, but it is the existance of a bat that has made me think I am...or rather, it is the demise of a bat that has made me think I am.
Thursday night, after perfectly pleasant time spent outside, hoping to see the rise of the full moon, which was, unfortunately, hidden by clouds, I came home to a not as nearly pleasant site. Going down into the basement, with the intention of catching up on some laundry, I see something brown on the ground. Too dark to be a mouse, the thing did not move and when I got a little closer, I figured out what it was. A bat. On the floor. In my basement.
I promised I would update my readers on my progress in the No Fear 5K training. On Friday morning, we gathered for our weekly run at Rock Run Trail. Even though it was 7 a.m., it was already hot and humid. After our warm up, we got on the trail and started moving. I am still fairly slow, but I have only one real goal; I will not finish the Sundowner 5K dead last.
I am one of THOSE women. The ones who never got into Sex and the City until it was in syndication. I never knew just how racy the series was, but that does not mean I did not come to love Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. Okay, actually, Charlotte drives me friggin' crazy, but I digress.
I went to see the Sex and the City movie this past weekend early on a Saturday morning. Since most of my girlfriends had already set times to go and since I actually like doing so, I went by myself. And I loved it.
Dawn Aulet is a woman, a writer, a wife and a mother. Often, the lens
through which she sees the world is colored by these roles, but not
always. Sometimes, her experiences have less to do with her roles and
more with the frustration of being a consumer, the need to put gas in
her car or the realization that the world does not have any obligation
to deliver what she expects.
In this blog, she intends to open the readers' eyes to the wonders of
the earth, which in her world includes eating and shopping, of course.
Expect moments of enlightenment that are interrupted and ruined by
moments of frustration. For, among her many roles, she shares one with
you, she's human.
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Dawn Aulet is a woman, a writer, a wife and a mother. Often, the lens
through which she sees the world is colored by these roles, but not
always. Sometimes, her experiences have less to do with her roles and
more with the frustration of being a consumer, the need to put gas in
her car or the realization that the world does not have any obligation
to deliver what she expects.