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  Lindsay

  8 months ago

  Painting portraits in oil paint. I used to do watercolour landscapes, but once I tried oils and portraiture I was hooked and probably will be for life. You can read all about my efforts (and see them) at my website :)
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  amandalee

  8 months ago

  My current obsessions?
  
  Blogging. Creating something larger than myself and sharing it with the world. Also, my partner. . . I couldn't ask for anyone more supportive or challenging or amazing. :-D
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  Jess

  8 months ago

  Oddly enough, I'm obsessed with style. I've been buying magazines, watching people on the street - soaking it all in as I develop my own. I'm currently obsessed with Blake Lively's character Serena's wardrobe on Gossip Girl. I'm also experimenting with belts.
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  Jim

  8 months ago

  Being minimalist and mindful of lifestyle. I barely use the printer at work or buy clunky things to fill up the apt., and prefer to pay for knowledge over material goods. I have been bringing my own tea/fruit/food to work, music rehearsal, church, and any other opportunity. Money and time is saved, and I get to enjoy great refreshments and bites!
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  CarrieM

  8 months ago

  Minimal & mindful I love it!
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  Kirsty

  8 months ago

  The dietary cleanse I'm starting today; four weeks of brown rice, all the veggies I can eat and organic chicken and tofu. The first week is always trying but I should feel like I got a great oil change in four weeks.
  
  Oh, and bird mobiles I've been creating for the new babies in my life thanks to Spool:
  http://www.spoolsewing.com/blog/2008/05/16/bird...
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  CarrieM

  8 months ago

  Kirsty, the birds are so sweet! thanks for sharing.
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  Maureen

  8 months ago

  The gym. My job is hectic right now, and the gym has been the sanctuary for the past few weeks. I guess I'm an early nineties throwback in this way. I just can't get enough of the good old fashioned gym, doing a bunch of weights and aerobics with the pounding music on the stereo and surrounded by muscled people. It clears my head. It feels good, and my arms are getting crazy muscley. Also, my pants are all loose now, which is also awesome. When work calms down, I will probably become less of an addict. It really works for me right now, though.
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  Leah Graves

  8 months ago

  -Taking Tai Chi (but not obsessed as much as I wish I were--I'd love to set aside time to practice).
  
  -Watching Planet Earth (never got to see it when it first aired) I told my husband we'd have to take it with us when we destroyed this world and have to move on. ;)
  
  -Free Apps for my iPhone that really do silly things. They amuse me.
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  textimage

  8 months ago

  i am insanely in awe of itunes' "genius" feature these days. i love picking one song and it gathers a day-load of music from my archive that it processes as similar. i'm rediscovering my excellent and eclectic music taste!
  
  ps. also LOVE kundalini, isn't it wonderfully bizarre?! ... and immediately effective?!
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  DanielleLaPorte

  8 months ago

  ah -- will totally check out itunes app!
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  Sophia

  8 months ago

  That immediate effect actually scared me in the beginning. I wasn´t sure if I was strong or ready for it. Then I figured that change that comes from our own inside will come at exactly the pace we need it to come. And apparently I needed it fast back then.
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  textimage

  8 months ago

  how beautiful and wise.
  
  just like you i suspect ;-)
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  Chantal

  8 months ago

  My hand-painted tribal t-shirts which are based on my paintings. I just returned from Bali with a suitcase full of them!
  Please check back in a couple of weeks as I update my website and create a new store.
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  Gina

  8 months ago

  I adore Kundalini Yoga! Don't underestimate it's power. It continues to reveal itself in wonderful ways.
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  Gaile Burchill

  8 months ago

  E-Bay! I've recently started a new e-bay business selling vintage postcards. I can hardly SLEEP, I'm so obsessed! i'm loving the energy that's flowing (and the money, too).
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  weezie

  8 months ago

  1) My iPhone. Other than cook dinner, what does this wonderful toy NOT do?
  2) Art Class. I spent the weekend gathering ideas to put on canvas. My aspirations probably exceed my talent, but maybe not. We'll see.
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  Ms. Tabitha

  8 months ago

  This time of year has me clammering for the softest, yummiest yarns to knit scarves, hats and other snuggly goods with.
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  Cindy - Creative Classic

  8 months ago

  Stories of all kinds - movies, novels, autobiographies! I can't get enough of them.
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  Lisa D

  8 months ago

  Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy...talk about a woman of style. This July will be the ten year anniv. of losing her and JFK Jr.
  
  Finding myself (career)
  
  Spanish accoustic guitar music like Rodrigo y Gabriela or 'Obsession Confession' by Slash, so sexy.
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  MoJo

  8 months ago

  Writing...started journalling again. Love the feeling of release when the words come out. And clothing....I've been binging a bit - I have shopping issues ;-)
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  peakingduck

  8 months ago

  Learning the guitar, playing 3 chords obsessively
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  Michelle

  8 months ago

  getting to know my slow cooker
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  emilycline

  8 months ago

  Nothing lofty or spiritual here: I'm obsessed with shopping. I've spent more money on myself this year, acquiring well-made, beautiful pieces that I love. Total 180 from my norm: Target!
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  Traci

  8 months ago

  I'm obsessed with finding a recession-safe way to quit my job and work from home.
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  Kim

  8 months ago

  True Blood. It's a new television show on HBO. I am obsessed with it.
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  Kake

  8 months ago

  The dog I adopted yesterday at our local Humane Society. She's a one-year-old Boston Terrier and loves giving kisses!
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  Brenda

  8 months ago

  I am currently obsessed with bathroom design. I want to change my bathroom and create a calming, soothing space in my home where I can soak in a tub for as long as I want and not worry about the kids. Also my daughter's nursery, 3 weeks to go....
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  Susie Hutchinson

  8 months ago

  My baby. Has been for the last fifteen months, and I imagine this obsession will last a life time.
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  Mackenzie

  8 months ago

  Hip hop dance! Everyone close to me knows how much I wish I could dance. I always say that 'in my next life, I'm going to be a dancer!'. On Saturday, I returned to my car after shopping and there was a pamphlet for a beginner's dance studio near my house. I took this as a sign and a little voice inside yelled 'it's meant to be!". I immediately called the dance studio and signed up for beginner's hip hop! Ever seen Elaine from Seinfeld dance? I have zero rythym and have never taken a dance class in my life but here goes nothin'!
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  DanielleLaPorte

  8 months ago

  I did some hip hop classes earlier this year. felt so good...and it's so not as easy as Janet Jackson makes it look. Just sweat and feel the powah.
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  alligator_kate

  8 months ago

  You can do it! I used to feel the same way. I yearned to dance, but only did it when I was super drunk AND it was in a very, very dark room. After taking classes regularly (though not strenuously) for a few years, I now have total self confidence on the dance floor.
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  Meredith

  8 months ago

  Music, music, and more music. I love discovering new loves and old friends in music. I've been playing "Brainy" by The National and "I Still Care About You" by Ray Lamontagne endlessly. Last night , my sister, our pal, and I shimmied around the living room to "I Put a Spell on You" by Nina Simone and other forgotten snazzy jazzy faves - "Fly Me to the Moon," "Somewhere Beyong the Sea," "Sunday Kind of Love," "Last year's Kisses"...lots of shimmying! It was a great night!
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  melissa frykman-thieme

  8 months ago

  I am so into myself. I've been in the hospital this week for chest pain, following a heart attack last spring, and all I can think about is whether I'm going to live or die. No one really wants to talk about it. The strange part is that I'm a hospice nurse with grief couseling experience and expertise. I don't think I'm dying, but who really knows? And if I am, how will I change my life to really live? Why don't I change my life right now, whether I'm living OR dying?? And aren't the dying ALSO living?? So why can't I? See what I mean?
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  Chuck

  8 months ago

  Melissa, I can't imagine what you are going through, but I can say I have thought about it many times. I am a 41 year old man who is very athletic, but I have enough bad habits and questionable family history to suggest that my fate may lie on this very road. My first thought upon reading your post was that we are all, of course, dying from the moment we are born, its just that some are in the fast lane and some cross over the median and find it head on. You rammed into the median and were lucky enough to bounce back, so to speak. Hopefully this week's chest pains are related to the world economy and not a recurrence of last year's attack. Worrying about them now can only enhance the issue not help it. Think positively! Everyone around you is probably not talking about it in order to keep you positive, so don't read too much into their reaction to this. They likely thought they had lost you last year and don't want to think about that scenario again.
  
  Now what to take from last year's experience? You always hear of people who move on from life changing experience to suddenly have an amazing clarity and drive to become the ultimate "super-person" that we would all like to emulate. However, for most of us, change of that nature is for the most part unattainable or at least very difficult. We still have the same life and daily responsibilities that are not going to accept any major changes. Your family, friends and colleagues did not go through the same event (although they have obviously been beside you and affected by your experience) and thus are not really much different. The home, career and neighborhood are still the same. So, unless someone is willing to completely alter everything in their life through a complete upheaval, changes available to them are going to be very minor even in the aftermath of such a major event. Change is difficult at the best of times, and the world is definitely not in the best of times. My suggestion is look at all the good things in your life and relish and build upon them. Enjoy those things that you have had a lucky second chance to experience and savor. Say all the things you have been putting off that you would have really regretted not being able to say if you hadn't survived. But, don't worry about needing to make major changes as we have usually built the lives we are in for a reason. To me, this event has given you the focus to tweak that life and enhance it. After this week try not to worry about dying, your fate is hopefully in the future like the rest of us, but you have been given a lucky wake up call that you survived. Use that luck to make the lives around you better off for your being there, no matter how much longer that is for!
  
  All the best, my thoughts are with you!!
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  melissa frykman-thieme

  8 months ago

  Hey Chuck-- Thanks SO much for your reply- Sometimes it feels like the best thing is to just "throw it out there" and see who is listening. Since I posted my message, I've come to some new level of peace. Reading your message reminded me of all of the stuff that I KNOW- That I am ALIVE, not dying, that I am inherently strong, that it's up to ME to "talk about it" and that most of these dark nights of the soul have a following morning, though the sun might be wintery weak. There ARE gifts in this misfortune- learning to ask for help, finding my REAL self, figuring out what my values really are, and connecting (vs separating) from the world. Thanks again, and may we all dwell in peace! Melissa.
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  mary b

  8 months ago

  Melissa,
  
  If you can get referred to a good cardiac rehab program (I write this from our program at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver), you will have a whole team to help you sort this all out. So many of our patients have struggled with the same issues and I consistently hear them express gratitude once they get through for the ability to talk with other patients as well as learning from the program itself. Support through this time is key to making the changes that you may need to make - whether working with the dieticians, the exercise physiologists, the psychologists, the nurses and /or cardiologists - and with your fellow participants. Googling "cardiac rehab programs" and your area should get you some info to start with.
  
  If Chuck sees this - we also work with folks with risk factors too - family history makes you so much more vulnerable to the effects of a questionable lifestyle.
  
  Good luck on your journey!
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  melissa frykman-thieme

  8 months ago

  Dear mary b, Thanks you for replying to my message. I guess part of my dispair has been that I AM doing everything WELL- from diet to exercise to support group to psychotherapy to medication compliance. My labs are all NORMAL! I've lost nearly 70 lbs. I walk 3-5 miles/day. I take time for myself. I identify the stresses in my life and I DO something about it. I am a poster child for post heart attack turn around. My only uncontrollable risk factor is my heritage. My father and his father both died in their early 50's of heart attacks. I suppose (now) that it's true that life is not necessarily "fair" and that we get what we get, but darn it, NOT ME!!!! I see that I'm moving through some grief here about loss of what I previously thought my life course would be, and my self-proclaimed identity. AND, as I said to Chuck (above), there are gifts/blessings to be had through this. I just don't want to die yet, and it seems that the "veil" is a little thin right now. I really appreciate the fragility as well as the toughness and resilience of my own life. I also appreciate the generosity and kindness of your reply. I AM in a cardiac rehab program and wish that the rest of the world knew and could avail themselves of these services and opportunities. Thanks again, Mary B, and I hope to meet up again about something less about ME, and more about my engagement with the world. Love, Melissa.
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  bohemian genuine

  8 months ago

  i'm obsessed with editing my short film at the moment! and with cleaning out my closet and paring everything in there down to the things i love and fit me best. and oh, the latest raveonettes' ep!
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  Sophia

  8 months ago

  Writing down visions for my near future.
  Somehow my life has gotten unusually full the past weeks and sometimes it´s almost scary how much there is to do until the end of the year and after that.
  At first I just envisioned how I would spend the Christmas-days. It was a very calming exercise that helped me put some order into my racing thoughts.
  Then I envisioned the December- and November-weekends. And then week-days. And the little visions came closer and closer to the present day.
  Some things I envisioned or wished for have already become true.
  A wonderful way to meditate about life!
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  stella

  8 months ago

  Mad Men. Enough said.
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  Rhonda

  8 months ago

  COLDPLAY! I listen to their music all day long at work, can't get enough of them. Every time I listen, I discover something new in the lyrics. makes me happy and content to share my space with them.
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  Caren

  8 months ago

  Creating intuitive perfume and life visions for women. It 's cool to watch dream visions turn to reality. Watching women who haven't dated for 7-10 years take the risk, wear the perfume and keep the man.
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  Meredith

  8 months ago

  How do we get our hands on this?!
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  DanielleLaPorte

  8 months ago

  tell us more...
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  ChaseLisbeth

  8 months ago

  Amy McDonald, singer-songwriter from Scotland, totally fun.
  My new charcoals from the art supply store.
  Single-tasking instead of mult-tasking.
  Fantasy books by Lois McMaster Bujold.
  Turning my cell phone off.
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  chloeev

  8 months ago

  I'm an up and coming online entrepreneur. That translates into countless hours in front of the computer with blogging, SEO, Social Networking, the whole gambit. It can get so overwhelming at times...
  
  When I read this question, my first reaction was I am obsessed with making my business a success...But that truly is NOT what its all about.
  When its quiet and time to relax, I probably am obsessed with learning more about life. I truly enjoy trying to put all the pieces together and finding a true purpose for the madness around us.
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  Ngonzi Truth Crushshon

  8 months ago

  UrbanScoop.com this fabulous website/resource for women to network and improve themselves (fashion,skills, employment, etc.)
  
  Chicago Bears tickets....I'm obsessed with it....but I just have to go now that I've met Devin Hester. OMG!!! I'm so excited!!! Even though the tickets are outrageously overpriced.
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  chantal monte

  8 months ago

  Would really love to see this website...the link doesn't seem to be working though...can you repost? thanks!
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  kim

  8 months ago

  god help me, an old boyfriend.
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  kelsey

  8 months ago

  Zumba! I just absolutely LOVE doing Zumba. I talk about it all the time, take classes whenever I can, and I'm now toying with the idea of becoming a certified instructor.
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  rebeccashapiroart

  8 months ago

  I'm obsessed with Halloween. I love pumpkins, little kid costumes and scary movies (not too scary). I also love celebrating the dead...the people who have come before me and paved the road. I'm grateful to them!
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  Constance

  8 months ago

  John Mayer's CDs always, everyday; have a great wallpaper painting of him on my monitor.
  Alice Adams collected short stories & getting help finally for a physical difficulty--hate doctors.
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  Carolynn

  8 months ago

  The documentary movie, War Dance.
  
  !!!
  
  And, I heard about it here. Thank you!
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  Natasha L

  8 months ago

  Purging! Cleaning. Organizing. Having my physical space reflect the direction my life is moving. Getting my apartment in tip top selling shape - assessing everything I own as well as what I choose to keep and what I want to buy. I find that when I force myself to deal with physical "things" - it always leads to questions about habits and desires - so those are getting the once over as well...and some reoccuring thoughts that aren't serving me...I've given those the boot too.
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  kerrymac

  8 months ago

  Decoupage! I can't stop. I do a weekly Make & Take craft night. I buy wonderful supplies and food and we make a project together that I teach. It's so fun to sip wine, nosh treats and craft with friends, new and old. Anyways, I started doing a sample of this week's Decoupage project on Friday and I have been Modge Podging all weekend! I'll share instructions and photographs on my blog...www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com Try it yourself, it's great for special little gifts.
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  Seanna

  8 months ago

  I am obsessed with wanting to go back to New York! I love the vibe and the energy of that city and I am wanting to go back and see the places that I didn't have time to spend in last time like TriBeca and SoHo....and of course, more shopping!
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  alligator_kate

  8 months ago

  OMG(oddess) Danielle, I saw Antony and the Johnsons years ago at PS122 in NYC... it was a show (loosely) exploring the nuclear holocaust in Japan... I took my then boyfriend/now husband to it, and though he's not a theater person in the least, he still references that show... which was extremely moving, shocking, hilarious, evocative, and bizarre.
  
  As for me right now, I'll admit my obsession is the U.S. presidential election. Besides that, my own writing, which is a pretty great thing to be obsessed with, and decoupage/collage, and Linda Barry's new book 'What it Is" on the creative process.
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  Kristen

  8 months ago

  I have recently started working a second job.....and I am obsessed with the fact that I hate trying to juggle so many things, and that I KNOW I have become a shell of myself.....my husband says its good financially.......
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  georgia Morley

  8 months ago

  Cooking with a crock pot. I have been braising beautiful pork roasts with dates and Morroccan spices, Sirloin tip stroganoff with egg noodles, a warm organic chili made with cocoa and smoked paprika. The list is endless, comforting and aromatic. Winter comfort food that's healthy and divine!
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  CarrieM

  8 months ago

  please tell me more, do you use a cook book?
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  Steve Harvey

  8 months ago

  i doubt she does...Georgia is one of Vancouver's hidden culinary treasures...It won't be long before we all get to taste her crafts first hand...eh girl?!!!! But do tell...throw down a secret or two.
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  aceofsomething

  8 months ago

  this will sound so very very vain but i'm currently obsessed with my face. in the past 6 months i've been going through one "grown up" life transition to the next. When you are 22, just out of college and working as hard as you can to craft the life you want, it sometimes feels like you are a toddler in your mom's clothes playing make believe adult. Over the past few weeks I've noticed my face start to change, perhaps not at all and I'm just imagining it, but when I look in the mirror these days I see glimers of the woman I'm becomming. I feel it inside but there is something about seeing it manifested on the outside that keeps be believing this transition has not been for nothing. It's also a good excuse to spend a lot of time looking at myself in the mirror....
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  MelissaM

  8 months ago

  I just came back from a life-changing (actually, life-accepting) weekend at the Landmark Forum. My current of-the-moment obsession is living authentically and it feels AMAZING.
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  CarrieM

  8 months ago

  Bravo, Landmark changed my life!
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  Alison

  8 months ago

  The concept of beauty, femininity... and perfume. I'm determined to find my own signature scent.
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  roshbosh

  8 months ago

  would you laugh if I said www.carrieanddanielle.com?
  The highlight of my day is in the morning when I take my fresh cup of coffee and situate myself in front of my computer so giddy to find what the daily question is going to be and going to reveal. For ten minutes it's all about me.
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  CarrieM

  8 months ago

  I am so honored to be a highlight in your day!
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  L'Tanya

  8 months ago

  Cleansing -- about to begin a 7-day detox with Raw Divas
  Clearing -- de-cluttering like crazy
  Gardening -- I'm a beginner gardener, but I love the back-to-basics feel of growing food
  Mixed media and creating without patterns or templates -- total freedom!
  I feel like I'm clearing the path for huge blessings. Some have already begun to flow.
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  pearl_mattenson

  8 months ago

  You're doing the detox? Just heard about it on Jennifer Louden's blog. Please tell us what happens and how it goes...
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  Jill

  8 months ago

  Vince Vaughn. I'll admit that I'm a 46 year old woman who's regressing to tennbopper in midlife. I just discovered him and am "zipping" all the movies that I can. This too will pass but for now I'm enjoying the daydreams. I agree with Danielle on Anthony and the Johsons; a Bryan Ferry-like voice of a non-specific gender. Fascinating and mesmerizing.
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  drfmh

  8 months ago

  CNN. Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown, & Roland Martin are in my dreams!
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  Steve Harvey

  8 months ago

  Not smoking...its either driving me crazy, or, it's driving me crazy...I am still not sure. But more so, I'm more obsessed about my substitution...exercise. I got pipes yo!
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  Kristin_The_Goat

  8 months ago

  It's been on month since I've been diagnosed a diabetic...my obsession has been food, what to eat, how to eat, what raises blood sugar, what doesn't - it is all so new that I have been hyper focused on it. Reading everything I can get my hands on.
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  Karen

  8 months ago

  Live Jazz and Blues music, heard in small venues.
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  KelliKat

  7 months ago

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD--not very deep, but still--the show has some serious themes that I really relate to. Plus, James Marsters is amazing as Spike--the arc of the character's progression from homicidal bad guy to hero owes a lot to the actor's amazing skill.
  
  Astrology is a recent interest as well--I've learned that as a Capricorn, it's in my nature to be melancholic at times, to be on a quest for identity, and to need a lifestyle that is holistic.
  
  And finally, the Style Statement book--it's helping me in my quest for identity.
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