tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106859032012-01-12T00:54:07.585-07:00The project of being humanSarah Buhrhttps://profiles.google.com/112623685787988086437noreply@blogger.comBlogger7861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685903.post-14844275599279273722012-01-08T22:34:00.000-07:002012-01-08T22:34:12.268-07:00

Okay, you can't actually click "Like" here. But I am wondering about the relevance of blogging vs the now hipper micro blogging like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Does anyone ever actually read this blog anymore?

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There are a lot of books good for reading out in the world, but just a few have had an impact on me this year. The one I would highly recommend to anyone (and one which could actually change the world for the better) is The Gentle Art of Blessing. My paper copy is currently tucked away in a cold, dark storage unit in Salt Lake but man was it profound. I laughed, cried and healed through

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The bf and I just got back from something a bit scary. We went to Arizona over Christmas and introduced each other to our parents (gulp). To understand this you have to understand the dynamics of my family and his family and the way we were both raised. Me: a pack of very serious, buttoned up Mormon engineers. Him: a hippy Jewish mother. And in his words, "How did you come from that family?

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Mitt Romney is also not ashamed to admit he is a Christian...the anti-gay rights rhetoric kind (but aren't they all? Le sigh). So it got a bit awkward when he casually approached what he hoped would be a supportive war hero this last weekend... Romney spotted a man in uniform at a local restaurant in New Hampshire and bellowed out, "Vietnam veteran!". What he didn't know at the time was that the

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CLOSER LOOK PHYSICS OF SANTA

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Miss Ask a Mormon Girl Joanna Brooks posted her thoughts yesterday on the BYU-Idaho skinny jeans controversy. She asked if this was "Sexism, sizeism or standards"? For those not in the loop, the BYU Testing Center is notorious for being more puritanical than temple standards. This latest gaffe started when a "curvier" girl walked in wearing skinny jeans. She was told to go home and change

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One part nerdist, another dash rock n' roll music:

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I almost broke up with J last week. He took me to Napa where I kid you not, he spent over a grand on me. I was concerned and asked him if he could really afford all of it. He laughed. Apparently money is not an issue. But that is not why I almost broke up with the guy. The thing is I have never been in this sort of a situation. He's good to me. Really, really good to me. He tells me I am

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So I made an invention. Well, I made up a recipe. Well, actually I borrowed a recipe and made it my own. Well, okay, I pretty much followed the recipe but substituted buffalo instead of chicken and then added in some celery. The result? Delish! I was at the grocery store. A real one. Finally. I've been poor. Really poor. Poorer than I've ever been before. So I went on a lot of dates. And boys

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A few thoughts. I am tipsy...but not drunk enough to forget how to blog. Or write (mostly) full sentences. Thought #1 most commercials are stupid. sooooo stupid. Thought #2 I forget. I'm watching Hulu and waiting for my boyfriend to get here, damnit! Thought #3 most people don't truly live. They are afraid. Afraid of what other people think. Of what they actually think. Of how those thoughts will

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I haven't been running in...six weeks. So I finally went two mornings ago. Two miles later... Just two. And three days later...Still sore. Craaaaaaaap! Can't believe I'm already THAT outta shape! Also, I was waaaaay hungrier that day. It doesn't help that work provides really good snacks. Fattening foods. Trail mix. Cliff bars. Cheetos. Doritos. Protein bars (hint, those are actually NOT healthy,

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That's all.

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...Also some other random peeps from my Halloween bash.

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More about Occupy memes on my new tech blog "Oh My Tech"

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Occupy Main Street - watch more funny videos

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And also this is awesome:

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Remember how I said my grandfather had a big something to do with the invention of the personal computer and IBM took it from him and didn't pay him or recognize him for it? All I had was word of mouth from other family members. And sure, my grandfather was a terrible man with a terrible secret (and it wasn't that one of his names was Amber). But he was also extremely gifted. Extremely

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So this is kind of totally amazing...

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Q: What kind of music was playing in the video? A: Alien music. Q: What do you think a dubstep is? A: I have no idea what a dub is. What's a dub? A: It sounds like a name. Mr and Mrs Dub Q: Can you imitate the music? A: bloop boom boom bllllooooopppp!!!

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So I finally got around to visiting The Pirate Store at 826 Valencia, but it was closed. Sad face. This place may be familiar to you if you've ever read or been to McSweeneys. It's this SF writing center made famous by author Dave Eggers (A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius, What is the What, etc). It also, for some reason, houses a pirate store. Where you can buy pirate stuff. Like

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So I tried to memorize this song on my drive out to SF. I feel this Jake Coco dude does it a little better. Just a little: Plus this cool duo (I mean that one dude even has that hip shirt with the words. Dude, you don't have to be sorry you're not sorry): And for the last cover gem of the same Super song check this funny kid. I like the first vid the most, but could see myself being

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If you actually talk to those protesters involved in the Occupy movement you will start to hear a few common threads. According to the posts both on Good and the official Tumblr blog for Occupy Wallstreet they are: 1. Affordable healthcare. It's time the American people get a healthcare plan that does not favor corporate insurance agencies and big business over the people. 2. More jobs. The

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"IT" meaning a lot of different things to a lot of different and diverse groups of people. The 99%. It's anyone from the long term unemployed to disgruntled college students with heavy loan debts and seemingly worthless degrees. The American dream is slipping further from many of our reaching hands. The top 400 wealthiest have more money than the bottom 150 million combined. American businesses

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With San Francisco. Obviously. The thing about living here is I'm surrounded by smart, interesting single people who like to do stuff all the time and in a city that always has something actually cool going on...and involves good food and entertainment on top of that. Also, everyone here, so far, has been super friendly. I hung out the other night with a guy who works for Google, the next

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So the food here is REALLY good. Really, really. I never understood why people who'd lived in New York or San Francisco were such food snobs. Or those who complained about the restaurants in Salt Lake. Tasted fine to me..But I've bit the apple and now fully understand there's a big difference. So far I've enjoyed everything from the most amazing Mexican to a restaurant that specializes in

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I now officially fit into my skinny jeans. Actually, there's a little room in my skinny jeans. I am blown away. I didn't think I looked different. I didn't feel THAT different. But now both the scale and the skinny jeans confirm it. My body comp is different. I look different. I've actually lost weight. I haven't been this thin since I was vegan in college over 10 years ago. I weighed myself

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I arrived, safe and sound at about 9:30 last night. It was a long (14 hours because of the heavy trailer full of furniture I was trucking with me) and thankfully uneventful journey. Podcasts such as Wiretap (if you've never listened you should, you will laugh out loud and not be ashamed), TWIM (This Week in Mormons. A shout out to you my Geoffrey), The Moth, The Young Turks and also a compilation

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I tried to find the clip from Arrested Development where GOB is performing on the beach to "The Final Countdown" but what was available wasn't the best quality. So, here is another clip that will have to do to convey my feelings about the day before I officially move to San Francisco: I keed! I do not feel like wearing stripper pants. I am trying to mentally prepare myself for the 12 hour

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One of the cute little girls in my neighborhood all growed herself up and went to college this year. She and her twin want to be photographers. So she asked if she could take some pics of me. Hell yes! Here they are:

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So basically I have four days to go before the "big move" to SF. Apparently you don't call it San Fran or Frisco. Just SF or San Francisco. Boring! Oh well, I'm sure I'll say Frisco and someone will be bothered and possibly correct me several times. Nerds. I have to admit. I am a wee bit anxious. I'm going there without a solid job. Well, sort of. I decided to keep freelancing with some former

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I lost weight. I have now lost a total of 12.5 pounds, bringing me down to 127.5 :) I didn't do it through a diet fad or a trainer or anything. I did it by eating fewer calories and walking everywhere. The moving all my stuff part helped as well...and sweating a lot in the place I'm staying (there's no air conditioning) so I guess I'm also drinking a lot more water. Really, it is something I've

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So the people I rented my house to have apparently rented to other family members. They said they were mormon but the husband smokes...and was apparently hauled off to jail last week for not paying a speeding ticket. Yes, I know, I should have done a more thorough background check. Which I did not. Let's move on from that, okay? They seemed so nice. A young, married Tongan couple, the wife

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Slate has a great little clipping of crop circle art I thought worth mentioning. You can view 'em here Something else that's been on my mind is who is this God character? Yes, really. I used to think I knew. I also realize that by writing this it is unrelatable to a lot of you who read my blog. But this is in my head. I used to think I knew. I'd been told all about God. I knew God. I had this

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Strange things are happening. I don't mean UFO strange. I mean Universe shifting strange...but for the better in my life. It's really kind of unbelievable, actually. Stay tuned.

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Let me first say I don't know what to think about UFOs. I mean I think it's highly likely we are not the only life forms in the whole entire universe. It's a mathematical probability. But I am not sure if anything else has tried to make contact or visit this planet. I do believe in different dimensions and planes of existence...but alien beings? How do you prove that unless you actually

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Human beings, homo sapiens, came to survive and thrive beyond our pre-human ancestors and other prototypes because of our ability to adapt and change with our environment and circumstances. If you look at history and our relative lack of DNA diversity as a species (indicating we were, at one point, practically wiped off the face of the planet) our very existence is clearly a damned miracle. A

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For some reason I've been on a dating 24 year olds streak. Not really by choice...that just seems to be what I got. I do live in Utah...You know what they say, these 24 year old boys? I look good for 33. But I'd like to just look good. Not for 33. Just look good. A part of me says "hey, 24 year olds hit on me so I look good" but another part of me freaks out a little. My mind goes to "Oh hell,

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I don't know what it is but I've dropped a little weight lately. About 6 lbs according to the scale. And I've been emotionally releasing as I do it. My emotions have been high during the move. Things seem to be happening fast there. I had renters within 15 minutes of listing my property and about 30 calls about the place that same day. The storage facility I found was a God-send, too. I just

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This was taped on a coffee table in this hippy co-op tree house I stayed in in Austin this last March while at SXSW. It's been going through my head as almost a mantra while packing up my stuff this week. Oh, ya, I have renters now. Almost. Delivered the lease today. I put the ad up yesterday and within 5 minutes had a phone call from an ecstatic young, newly married Tongan girl. Her husband

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My phone died. So even though I'm poor right now I had to get a new phone. And it turned out when I went in that I was way over due for an upgrade. Yay! Also, thank goodness for credit when you need it. Now I don't even have to pay my bill till September. These are some pics of me testing out the new phone:

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I needed to sit down for a minute and catch my breath. My emotions are running high lately. Something to do with trying to figure out how to make everything work out so I don't get totally screwed. What I mean is I used to be doing really well. Then I got this itch. This itch to LEAVE UTAH. And it's been quite a few months that itch hasn't been scratched. And I concentrated on that. Almost like

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Admission: I have a very wild imagination. I realized this early on I'm kinda weird cuz other kids/adults/any other human being I knew at the time did not think the same way I did. I made up whole stories and universes in my head. I even had this running story that I was the only human on Earth and everyone else I knew was a robot. Or an alien. And they were pretending to be human. To study me,

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Facebook Political Argument

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The day has finally come I no longer have to wear the Invisalign trays, or take them out in front of people before I eat or have those unsightly buttons on my teeth or go through the pain of my teeth slowly pushing together. No more! My teeth are finally straight! Here are the before and afters:

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Sounds like a new feature to Clue...but no, my fellow blog readers, all two of you, tis pics of the labor of my love (and from a whole lotta rain this season) in my backyard garden so far.

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No, not really, but made you read :) Here's some stuff I've been working on in my little in-home studio. I'm not great, but I do have fun getting messy. Check it:

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1. Them - Jon Ronson - book about extremists and conspiracy theorists and how they form their beliefs...and that some of them might actually be right. 2.The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths - Michael Shermer 3.The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Hey, it's a classic. 4. The Science of Evil:

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I let six teenage girls plus one 12 year old hold a sleepover slash stay up all night and eat junk food fest at my house this weekend (and, yes, I did feel like the big sister). Some say I was brave for doing it, but really it was a lot of fun. Really. If you are a girl, you will know this is true (and possibly be jealous). The girls in my neighborhood know me from a youth group I used to be

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My younger brother died a hero by pushing his friend out of the way before a 10,000 pound boulder came crashing down on him at Donut Falls in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah 8 years ago. And you know I cried every day for a year after he died. I couldn't help it. People have stories of him after his death. 1. One of his childhood best friends was in a bad place in life and said right after my

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Need something a lil different for your background listening pleasure today? Here's what I'm listening to (warning you may feel as though you've stepped into Urban Outfitters or some such store. Or perhaps a car commercial. It's one of those days): 1. Stilyagi - Puro Instinct 2. Golden Haze - Wild Nothing 3. My Terrible Friend - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 4. Jupter - Starf....er (won't

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I've been up all night. I mean I've been sleeping here and there, but with several bouts of tossing and turning in between. Part of it is the influence of Sudafed mixed with cough meds(wow that stuff is powerful. Sudaspeed?). The other part is worry about my influence over some teenage girls in my little neighborhood. I used to be a teen girl leader (called the Young Womens program) in a

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Apparently someone thinks the world is ending on May 21 of this year. This is news to those of us in Utah. No one bothered to warn the Mormons with the billboards and postings about town in other cities. So I'm just gonna say it so you know where I stand here. The world is not ending (gasp!). It doesn't feel like it. I know that sounds strange. It doesn't feel like it? That's your reasoning?

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This isn't going to make sense till you read about half way through. Allow me to set the scene: I am sitting outside, in the sun, on a blanket, in my own seemingly pastoral backyard. Chicken watching. And working on existential thoughts. I wonder if these chicks ever remember me or just think of me as every other human that walks through these grasses. They come running when I walk out there

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Me (to my ex boyfriend in a text): Hey, I need to come pick up my pink bike that's been at your house forever. When can I come and get that? Him: Home now So I go over there and we proceed to rehash why things didn't work out. Me: Sometimes I have to admit I miss you. Him: Ya, me too. Later... Me: But we always fought and broke up sooo much Him: Ya, and you were not swim suit ready. Me:

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“First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the Beauty. When the Crystal Meth is offered, may she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half And stick with Beer. Guide her, protect her when crossing

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It seems to be a universal truth - moms all over the world love to fill our inboxes with spam. From chain mail to cute puppies to crime warnings from the city YOU live in, chances are you get it at least once a day. Now, this Mother's Day, we can all return the favor with Mom Spam: http://www.momspam.net/

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I went out on a walk and to soak up some sun today in my little neighborhood. I live in what is considered the Mexican ghetto of Salt Lake. It's situated right on the west edge of downtown in a little area full of corner marts with exclusively Spanish words painted brightly on sides of buildings and adorable little Mexican children running through the streets. Teenagers sat on porches, all in

Sarah Buhrhttps://profiles.google.com/112623685787988086437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685903.post-84585908784322991122011-04-22T10:34:00.002-06:002011-04-22T10:34:51.006-06:00

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This time last year I ran 13.1 miles at the crack of dawn with 10,000 other people. On purpose. Well, this morning it was once again time to celebrate the running of the runners (more clever word here? Perhaps, but meh it wasn't coming and I'm a little tired right now). This year there was not so much of me running as running around. This is the second year I've been asked to handle publicity

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I swore I wouldn't talk about dates on here. It's hurt some feelings. However, this one was just sorta strange (for me, apparently not for some other people I've talked to about it). So I was asked to get together at a coffee shop by this young guy who was an intern at a project I just finished up with. I'm thinking he wants career advice. Turns out he has the hots for me. I'm thinking he

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Ya, those ARE their names. What? Beyonce Ke$ha Lady Gaga

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In case you missed this on Facebook. Animals!

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So I'm hanging with D/Smitty last night and we're having one of "those" conversations about life, the universe and everything when he tells me what his first impression of me was when we first met when I just barely moved back to Utah. He said he thought I was really hot...but chubby. You'd think I'd be offended. Hot but chubby? The nerve! But here's the thing. That is exactly what I am. And I

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This Holi, Festival of Colors, was my third and quite possibly chalkiest ever. It was glorious. Check it:

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“Here is this mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hands. And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.” -Vilayanur Ramachandran. This is the 9th installment from Symphony of Science. I still think the first one was best, but this is quite entertaining in its own right:

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Where the Magic Happens with Danny Pudi from Danny Pudi

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I am in a strange city. The rain is so cold and the wind so fierce it nearly broke my umbrella as I wandered around last night. It took me all about an hour of fighting with my umbrella to finally find myself embedded deep inside the most gigantic Forever 21 I have ever seen. The thing had 4 floors! Four. 1, 2, 3, 4! Apparently everyone else had the same idea. It's cold, windy and rainy. Let's

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According to Wordle, this is the stuff I talk about most on this here blog o' mine: Notice how the word REALLY and HAIR and to a lesser extent CHIRP and CHATTER (neither of which I have any recollection of using) are so prominent? The mystery...

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http://ht.ly/4c6ee

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I sat at the secretaries table for lunch yesterday. This is a group of older ladies in the Utah Senate, all in their 50's and 60's. They are absolutely adorable. Think of hip grandmas with perfectly coiffed taffy hair, exotic bangles and smiling faces slipping in conversations about church, chocolate and wrinkles. Then chirp, chirp and chatter, chatter along they go. They even referred to

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I've been going back and forth on cutting my hair. I've had it long for a while. Not sure if it's just angst for change or if I really should just do it. So I took two pictures, one with my hair up and one down to let the good people of the internet decide. Keep it or cut it? Note - I do love me some big earrings, hence the big black feathers you may be distracted by in these two pictures. You

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23, as in chromosomes. I have them, you have them. And the most amazing thing is we can map them and test for genetic markers for everything from the kind of earwax we have to the way we process caffeine. I remember when the first announcements came to the media and public that we had finally mapped the human genome. I was working for NPR at the time. They had this large roll-out poster stuck to

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So I stuck with the diet, with some modifications. I learned that the diet I was on was actually made for much bigger people than me and that was why everyone was losing so much weight and I wasn't. I have maybe 10 lbs to lose so...It works for me, too, but with a few changes such as no "cheat days". I maybe get one cheat meal, but no whole days of pigging out. Not sure how that even works for

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It dawns on me I need a new pic for this blog. Maybe. I really like the one I have, though. But it is just one snap from last summer. The thing is I'm particularly bad at snapping personal pictures. I almost never think to take my camera, either. And though I could use the one on my phone...it's just terrible for quality. So with that in mind, the search is on....maybe. Or I'll maybe also give up

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I'm too busy actually doing it to write about social media (except I'm here, writing, but that's cuz I love you). I see my peers writing all sorts of articles and interviewing people and such about it and the sort of work we do with social media...and I wonder where they find the time. I am constantly plugged in or on the phone texting, tweeting, blogging, snapping pics and putting them up on

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Despite the many raving fans of the 4-hour body diet, I haven't really lost much more than what could be chalked up to water weight. Ugh! I'm on my fourth week. Some people are posting the most amazing progress. Me? The same. No matter what I do - if I eat junk, if I eat healthy, I stay THE SAME! I'm chubby and I hate it. Okay, I'm curvy and I hate it. My arms are fat. My boobs are big. My

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Week two of my protein "diet". I've lost a total of 4lbs. Two weeks, 4 lbs. Some would say that's pretty good. Everyone else I know on this diet (there's a Facebook support group) seems to be losing way more than me. I'm even taking a fat burning supplement and drinking lots of water. Maybe it'll speed up as time goes on? At least I'm losing weight? I thought it was going to be hard eating all

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My little white and black speckled Americauna laid her first egg today. The "chicken experts" told me none of them would be ready till spring at the earliest. So I patiently waited. This morning I was out feeding the chickens and couldn't find her. I searched the whole yard and started wondering if something had happened. Then, out from the rabbit hutch she comes, ready to eat with the rest. I

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Anyone else have this problem? I'm on this new diet. Day 3. I'm not really a "dieter" as I firmly believe it all boils down to calories in, calories out...depending somewhat on the kinds of calories you consume. However, I recently read this "book" called The Four Hour Body . I say "book" because, well, it is a real book, but I've been reading it on my Kindle and it reads more like several

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I'm feeling a lot better today and I believe it has a lot to do with what I ate and the treatments I gave my body. Below is what I did, in case you are interested, want to use these remedies later or are now suffering from a bad cold/sinus infection/flu/strep or whatever that is that is going around. The stuff which I believe made the most impact I gave an asterisk. Thursday night - started

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So I'm sick on New Years Eve. The alternative wasn't really all that thrilling - go downtown, look at the lights? Attend an awkward Mormon dance? A club? An awkward Mormon party? Still, it's nice to have plans. Especially for that odd, insane thought that runs through my head - what if this is an omen of the year to come? What if I am sick and that sets things in motion? And also I don't get

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Have you ever dressed up and felt beautiful, really beautiful, only to see the pictures later and wonder how you thought that because picture after picture actually shows you looking fat and full of, well, in my case, boobage? These boobs have been the bane of my existence ever since I got them. I was that girl, the first girl in school to wear a bra. I got the dirty letters passed to me by the

Sarah Buhrhttps://profiles.google.com/112623685787988086437noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685903.post-49294442270780267772010-12-20T10:33:00.006-07:002010-12-20T10:44:02.009-07:00

I know I said I would never write about my dating life again unless that guy made me want to have his children, but this one is worth mentioning to all the women out there for safety reasons. I don't generally believe in internet dating. I do have some good friends who have met their future spouses and nice, normal (at least it seems so far) boyfriends on the internet. And so there I was on this

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It really does. People are so funny. Especially videos and then the parodies and spin-offs that come to be. And then I'm really happy when something is both funny and really helps someone out. Someone like Antoine Dodsen. Sex Offender Tracker App - "It's a technology"

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Cute things....EXPLODING!

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Here I am with an invite to the Gov's Christmas Gala and with no boyfriend at the moment and thinking, thinking who I could possibly invite? Someone that would not embarrass me would be good. Problem is I don't seem to be coming up with much. What I mean by presentable, I should clarify that, is a guy who happens to: 1. Live here 2. Knows how to dress for such an event (it's not a jeans and

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These little monkeys and I made caramel popcorn for our activity this Tues. Some days it's really tough to get their attention just long enough to actually do what we had planned. Other days it's like they just get up and do it themselves and then put everything away without anyone asking them to. And those days are miracle days. Sure they always want to ride in my car or hang out or message me

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So no one has an opinion or wants to share one about Wikileaks. Fair enough. I'm not sure how I feel about it either. Although I do think both Paypal and Amazon are overreacting by permanently pulling support. Also, I would not want to be Julian Asange right now.

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You can find it at http://www.wikileaks.nl/ or http://www.wikileaks.fl/  What do you think of the efforts of founder, Julian Asange? Dangerous? Freedom fighter?

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This morning I had pumpkin pie for breakfast. So bad, yet so good. It's my favorite pie. My neighbor came over with it last night just as I was headed out the door. It was an exchange for some of my sugar. When does that ever happen anymore? Neighbors bringing pies and borrowing sugar? There was also a delish apple pie I picked up at the grocery yesterday. Managers special. It was only 1.50.

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We finally got really dumped on all yesterday and last night. And now it's sunny. The world is a wonderful, fluffy, crystaline snowscape in Salt Lake today.

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I am appalled that so many in my generation are ready and willing to roll over and be sexually assaulted (and let their children be sexually assaulted), give up their rights to privacy and ignore their rights as stated in the 4th Amendment all in the name of supposed security at airports. This new TSA measure is outrageous and ineffective. I did not always feel this way. Like so many others, I

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