Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Feb 8, 2012, 9:48 am
Yesterday I complained to Ms. MM via Gchat that it felt as if someone froze time like Zack Morris and didn’t tell anyone because the day was taking so long.  (And I’m not even kidding that I considered that as an option.  It started off as a Tuesday, but by 3 pm I was convinced it was at least...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Feb 7, 2012, 10:20 am
Last month I finally went ahead and bought myself an updated version of Adobe Creative Suite.  I used to use it at my job in college and the functionality is so nice, but I’ve been without it for (gulp) almost a decade. (This is minus the stint with Drop of Ink which was made using InDesign, but ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Feb 6, 2012, 9:57 am
In the past two years of trying to become a parent, the one thing I have come to recognize more than anything is the intersection between issues of choice and issues of infertility.  It would seem that the two couldn’t be farther apart.  I mean, one represents a group trying to prevent motherhoo...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Feb 2, 2012, 9:39 am
Do you ever have one of those mornings when you wake up and realize all of the things you need to accomplish and then decide that the only way you’ll get through it is by sheer luck?  Yeah, I’m having one of those mornings.  I can’t say anything new happened to start it, but I can say that i...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Feb 1, 2012, 9:59 am
  I try to keep my political rantings elsewhere and focus on life issues here.  But the news yesterday that the Susan G. Komen Foundation was pulling its funding from Planned Parenthood just outraged me to my core.  In fact, it personally offended me as a Komen donor and as a human being.  And ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 31, 2012, 10:08 am
There’s an interesting phenomenon that seems to have picked up steam in the past decade.  In exchange for some unknown quantity of satisfaction, people have begun to do things that aren’t in their best interests.  It’s gotten to the point where, today, it seems as if it is more normal to dis...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 27, 2012, 10:25 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week? ———– Dear Society: I am so sick...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 26, 2012, 10:26 am
…that while the people around me are able to forgive those who have wronged them, I have a much harder time of doing so. …that I use shopping for therapy purposes and have no problem with that other than monetarily.  Sometimes buying clearance stuff at Target really does help. One of the mos...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 25, 2012, 10:33 am
Long ago when this blog started, I detailed some of the important beings in my life.  Given that it takes some time to really establish a connection and learn the ways of someone else, I usually wait a bit until doing this.  Now that we’ve had Brooklyn for over ten months, I think that time has ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 24, 2012, 10:34 am
  The Academy Award nominations came out this morning.  This used to be a HUGE deal for me when I was in high school and into theatre (notice how I spelled that…re and not er at the end).  It’s still fun to watch and The Mister and I will usually try to check off as many of the Best Picture ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 23, 2012, 10:37 am
Normally I’ll send myself e-mails when I think of something I intend to blog about the following day.  I have several e-mails in my inbox right now with random phrases reminding me of some thought I had that, at the time, I thought was important.  Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t.  W...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 20, 2012, 10:23 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week? ——————– Dear Readers: Can...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 19, 2012, 10:30 am
As I mentioned here the other day, I started teaching my class this week.  This is my first foray into teaching as a profession and I think I was probably the most nervous person in the room at first.  I suddenly became acutely aware of my bad jokes and the awkward pauses when no one would speak u...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 18, 2012, 9:40 am
I am thrilled to see a group of people coming together on an issue.  This is exactly what the American process is capable of when it works at its finest:  people voicing an opinion on an issue they feel dearly about.  Without a doubt, it’s a complicated policy issue.  But don’t be fooled: pa...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 17, 2012, 11:10 am
I taught my first class last night!  It was such a weird feeling to be the one leading the class from start to finish.  Well, there were so many weird things.  Most of the students were really young and that made me feel older than I am.  It was also like playing to a bad comedy crowd in some re...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 16, 2012, 10:13 am
“And we’ve got to say to the nation: We know how it’s coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.” Most people look at MLK Day as another day off.  It does have a certain appeal, c...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 11, 2012, 10:28 am
It’s like Oprah’s Favorite Things except no one is getting a car.  In fact, no one is getting anything except a piece of my mind.  Which is why you come to this page anyhow. Nivea Creme I bought this gem on a whim in a trial size at Target before Christmas.  It was some sort of stocking stu...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 10, 2012, 10:13 am
When we got our Keurig machine, it came with a bunch of sample k-cups to try.  The one I seemed to like best for regular coffee was Emeril’s Big Easy Bold.  So last week I bought a whole box of it.  Seems like a safe bet, right?  Not so much.  Now that I get this box it seems I don’t like i...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 9, 2012, 10:46 am
This weekend I got to hang out with Ms. MEPS for the first time in forever.  With her busy with her awesome son and finishing the master’s thesis from hell and me with finishing the semester, trying to get knocked up and the like things have been difficult at best in the getting together departme...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 6, 2012, 10:23 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week?   This week we have a particular treat�...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 4, 2012, 10:18 am
A photo of star birth clouds in the M16 galaxy from Nasa's Hubble Telescope This won’t come as a huge confession to most of you, but it’s an admission nonetheless: I am a total nerd. And I don’t even mean in the cool sense where I’ve collected something my whole life only to find out it�...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Jan 3, 2012, 10:32 am
I think I’m officially old. (Which is absolutely fine.)  I didn’t get wasted on New Year’s Eve.  In all fairness, I didn’t donate blood that day as I’ve done the past few years, so it makes sense.  I had a few drinks, but nothing major.  Of course, that’s exactly the kind of thing th...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Nov 2, 2011, 10:02 am
Thanks for putting up with Keyboard Dog yesterday.  I got into work a bit late and felt like I was rushing to get the very basics done.  There’s an old (didn’t used to be old, but now it is) Alabama song called “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why).”  Even when I first heard this song ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Nov 1, 2011, 9:35 am
…and since you’re all sick of Keyboard Cat, I figured I’d give you something different to occupy your time.   KEYBOARD DOG.   You can thank me later.    
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 31, 2011, 10:05 am
When I was thinking about what to blog on today, I realized that I had never fully talked about Halloween.  In part, this is because Halloween has fallen on a weekend for the bulk of this blog’s existence.  But mostly I think it’s because no matter how hard I try, Halloween has never been a hu...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 28, 2011, 11:11 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week?   This week I only have one letter.  I...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 27, 2011, 10:23 am
Is it possible for crazy stuff to happen on a new moon as opposed to a full moon? Because I literally had to check the calendar this morning given the events of the past twenty four hours.  I cannot even begin to go into the ridiculous minutiae that has been my life since I woke up yesterday mornin...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 25, 2011, 10:13 am
South Detroit...otherwise known as Windsor, Ontario. Every single time I hear Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” I always recall being in a bar in Toronto after the U2 concert a couple of years ago and The Mister giving me a smirk before obnoxiously yelling out the “South Detroit,” part...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 24, 2011, 10:07 am
Last night The Mister and I were watching TV.  He had just sealed half of the basement floor and I just completed a day filled with tasks. (Yes, one of the tasks was taking a nap.  Get over it.)  I was half paying attention to the baseball game when a commercial came on that woke me from my tranc...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 21, 2011, 10:04 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week? ——————————- Dear Bro...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 19, 2011, 10:26 am
So I was reading the news while I was going to the bathroom this morning (if you have a smartphone, don’t even pretend like you don’t do this…it’s basically why the smartphone was invented).  As I glanced over the usual stories, I came across one that caught my eye. Police seek escaped exo...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 18, 2011, 10:07 am
I love it when I get in and turn Pandora on and something amazing starts flowing out of my speakers.  This morning it was “Respect” by Aretha.  There’s a dance party in my office. The surge of pole dancing places in my local area has me concerned.  I understand that the people who frequent...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 17, 2011, 10:41 am
It’s not often I have weekends like this.  That’s probably because if I constantly had weekends like this I’d need to take a leave of absence from life just to get my act together.   And the sad part is this roller coaster wasn’t entirely of my own making and wasn’t one I could disassem...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 13, 2011, 9:58 am
Tigers, I love you, but you’re killing me.  I have faith that you can pull this off, the only question is whether you do.  Down and out isn’t the worst place to be; it just means every move counts that much more.  It gives you character to have to play through that type of adversity. I have ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 12, 2011, 9:56 am
Every year on October 12th I write a sappy post about my wedding anniversary.  It’s the kind of general sap I try to stay away from in life, but it somehow catches up with me every October.  And every year I end up posting something here about how we met or the day we got married (both happened ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 10, 2011, 10:06 am
Late last week I got my period and I was finally mentally ready to start the next frozen embryo transfer (FET).  I was pumped.  I hadn’t been pumped like this in months–really, since before IVF 1.0 in February/March.  The cycle was so on. I went into the doctor’s office on Sunday. (Yes, th...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 7, 2011, 10:53 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week? ———- Dear Detroit Tigers: THANK Y...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 6, 2011, 11:03 am
We all get a plethora of mixed messages while growing up.  It is surprising that anyone survives to the age of majority with any sense of self whatsoever. Questions of our intellectual dominance in the world around us have led politicians to listen almost exclusively to corporate powers when it co...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 5, 2011, 10:51 am
It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a bit of a complainer. This may be where you’re tempted to say something to the effect of, “No, Kim, you’re not a complainer.  Not at all.  You always see the upside of every situation.”  Don’t bother.  I know that’s not true.  There i...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Oct 4, 2011, 10:26 am
I need an old fashioned alarm clock like this just for fun.   It used to be that I could stay up until 2 AM and then get up at 7 am and do it all again with very little problem.  Now, waking up after a 2 AM bedtime is like getting slapped with a 2
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 30, 2011, 10:03 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week? ——— Dear Yankees: It’s on.  To...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 29, 2011, 10:55 am
When I graduated from college, I could have gone anywhere.  Despite the invitations to do so, I decided to stay in Detroit.  Though I could have taken advantage of what the world had to offer, I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.  I knew that whatever I wanted to do with my life, whatever m...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 28, 2011, 10:16 am
It is my Nana’s 95th birthday today.  It is also almost five years since she left us.  Although I don’t hurt every single day anymore, I still get caught up at least a couple times a month in thoughts of what she’d say or do in a situation.  On mornings like this, I still cry a very hardy c...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 27, 2011, 10:22 am
I might need an intervention like this before the week is over. Apparently I’m going through some sort of weird phase where I either have zero initiative to do something or so much initiative to do so many things that I cannot see straight.  Last week I couldn’t get my act together.  This wee...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 26, 2011, 10:48 am
Nothing compares, no worries or cares. Regrets and mistakes they’re memories made. Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste? -Adele It was raining like crazy all night and all morning.  I slept poorly last night and had a series of weird dreams, some of which I can’t even recal...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 23, 2011, 10:43 am
Open Letters Friday is a segment here at PCL for your reading and writing enjoyment. I’ll share with you some of my open letters for the week and you’ll get the opportunity in comments to share yours. Now, tell me, who do you need to write to this week? ———– Dear Spencer the Cat: Reme...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 22, 2011, 9:59 am
Last night, the State of Georgia killed a man.  Troy Davis was executed for a crime that many believe he did not commit.  He was executed in the name of justice.  He was killed in the name of ending violence.  Despite overwhelming evidence that the prosecution and jury may have gotten the wrong ...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 21, 2011, 9:55 am
When I was in middle school (and even late elementary school), I started straying from the path of pop music.  As a result, I was led directly to grunge.  It was that time in all of our collective lives when we stopped backcombing our bangs and started wearing flannel shirts instead.  It was also...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 20, 2011, 10:54 am
I have a confession to make. I cheated on Brooklyn last night. With four other dogs. Okay, so it wasn’t exactly cheating.  It was a fact finding mission for one of my new roles in life.  You see, in the past couple of months I have gotten more involved with a group called Stiggy’s Dogs.  I�...
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Kim With a K posted an article on Perfectly Cursed Life - Sep 19, 2011, 10:15 am
It's gonna be a long day... It was so incredibly difficult to get out of bed this morning.  It’s raining out and it’s Monday, which means I just wanted to roll over and call it a day.  Even Brooklyn the Dog didn’t beg for her normal walk.  I think she’s worn out from the weekend’s acti...
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