Since I had never thought about my wedding day, I had no idea where to start.
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They asked how I was feeling, how my day had been.
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But would my buying capacity have been any different if I had left my watch at home this day?
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The day before had been my twenty-fifth birthday, and no one had remembered, not even Ginnie, my own sister, my Irish twin, eleven months younger than I.
Like Martha I have always been agitated and troubled b the cares of the day but my mother had a serene and loving heart.
Once again I called Delta, and this time they informed me not to worry, my flight the next day had also been cancelled, but they had rescheduled me to fly out the day after that.
At one of my daughter's schools, I always thought it unfair that those who were often most strenuously tutored weren't the dunces, as they were in my day, the ones who had trouble keeping up.
Not only would I have had to pause or put the kibosh my 30-day trial run with the BlackBerry Z10, but I'm also on the other side of the world in a foreign country.
Upon my arrival in Orlando for the Baseball Winter Meetings last weekend, I had spent approximately 15 hours each day trying to unearth any morsel of information that could either enhance my overall knowledge of the sport or lead me to sources that could answer some of the complicated questions that I currently have regarding the business of baseball.
Balanced Mom Reaction: I would have been eager to be at home after my full day of work the day before, looking forward to date night Saturday night and had all the energy in the world for my kids in between.
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On Demo day I had to stand up and fit my whole worldview and plan into 6 minutes.
My mother had to devote a good portion of every day for the next few months to a quadruple mission.
And I saw my father, who had MS, get up every day on crutches and carry himself with that same pride, that same dignity that you get when you can provide for your family, that same hope that his kids would one day have opportunities he never dreamed of.
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They said I should buy my wife a present, because she had been calling all day and I never answered.
One day my brother Chris told me that he had mentioned Brother John to a colleague at his law firm.
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It was -- it capped off what for me was an extraordinary day because I had the distinct pleasure of bringing my son for his birthday to the Nationals game yesterday.
So, I gathered my courage, bit my tongue, and proceeded through my day, doing everything exactly as I always had, noting where I was each time I ran into him, and when.
Went on my way feeling strange all that day, wondering what had gone wrong.
Later that day, before I even had a chance to brief my partner, the landlord reneged on our verbal agreement and killed the whole deal.
"We had six 'failure' phone calls, and then one day my husband delivered flowers to my work that said "All my love to the both of you.
All of a sudden my ambition changed, my drive, my passion, ever since that day I've had a change in perspective, to live everything to the full and take advantage of all these opportunities.
So I went and started shining shoes, better yet, smelling feet and I only had to take my money home and give it to her and one day, she told me to look under the bed and there was the horn and I picked it up and played it.
One of my partners had been in charge of all the accounting and finance since Day 1.
One day when Golden Boy came by, I had gathered up my courage to ask him something that had been on my mind.
"I had been away for the week in Spain and I left my husband to look after the fish which he had been doing every day, and then when he went out to check on them they had disappeared, they had been stolen, " she said.
Early in my career, a friend vented to me about how his day had turned into a disaster.
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