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Hi.  I haven't been able to bring myself to post the last few weeks.  Crazy busy time of year - birthdays, charity events and gatherings with good ole' friends AND the weather has been fab so I'm spending more time outside with my dos devils.

The BM bombings have also triggered something inside me.  I've spent the last two weeks crying, reflecting, crying, reflecting....and so it goes.  Two truths have come from my reflective state:  enough is enough and I need to get back to basics.  I feel like I'm channeling  Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire - except my memo is directed solely at myself.  I need to refocus.  A shopping hiatus is in order.  Womp womp. I seriously just wrote that.  Breathe. I know you are in a state of disbelief.  I have decided that the money I spend each week at Nordstrom, J Crew and the Gap should go one of two places: M & N's college fund or to charity.  Enough is enough.  I don't need anymore stuff {right now anyway}.

I also need to get back to basics.  Playing with friends, picking up the phone to check-in with my pals, volunteering and most importantly putting my god damn phone down.  I didn't get to where I am today without the help of others.  Now I need to return the favor and help those in need.  Getting b2b also involves taking the Big Pete Challenge.  Oh ya, the Big Pete Facebook Challenge.  Basically it requires taking a summer vacation from FB. He guarantees I will be happier, more productive and just feel better about myself in general.  I have a sneaking suspicion he is right.  {I've barely been on in a week and I already feel liberated}. Unfortunately, I have fallen victim to FB - everyone's life is perfect except mine. Yes, I know nobody and nothing is perfect. For some reason everything on FB seems to be perfect though.  Go figure.  UGH.  At age 34 you would think a pathetic social media outlet like FB would not mess with my brain.  But it does. 

So that's all I got for you today folks.  Boring - yes. Real - very. Deep thoughts today. Delving into the monogram mania taking over the world can wait until tomorrow. xox