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    "awesome!!! let me know if i can help with any of these!" - stephanie

    "anytime you need help with your list, lemme know! i like to do alot of things on there! :)" -e.d.

    "please don’t pick up a stranger thats dangerous. oh and i can teach you how to drive a stick shift in september. my car is a stick =)" -katy

    "Thats an awesome list and I can definately help you with some of those… maybe you can help me make my list one of these days!" -perla

    "I really like this site. The template and colors are very smooth. Thanks for the nice comment on my site. Keep up the good work." -out wrong

    "Hey! Great goals! If you want to brush up your Spanish during downtime at work (say what??), a site I like is http://www.practicespanishonline.com/. I especially like the exercises at Bowdoin College and Colby." -stacy h

    "Wow, GRE? Good luck! I know you can do it You’re kind of a smartie pants miss maggie…" -krista

    "GO MAGGIE!!! you can do it!!!!" -perla

    "Hey the packing taped worked amazingly and none of it came off. It survived mopac twice!! Hopefully travis will have the thing screwed in by the time I come home." -perla

    "#90 on your list is #14 on the ltlym list. so there!" -perla

    "great idea! i can help with #32 hehe =]" -d

bright shiny morning

this is one of the best books i have ever read.  james frey’s writing style (very conversational, he writes as we think…often in run-on sentences, disregarding proper grammatical boundaries) is amazing.  one review calls it “a train wreck of a novel.”  i agree, in that it is absolutely impossible to put down…and that it is [...]

new laptop!

after a very long, laptopless (for the most part) year, i finally have a new one.  and it’s pretttttty.

5 birds with 1 stone

for the past 7 days, i’ve been on hilton head island, south carolina (a beautiful place!) on vacation.  i had an amazing time, and i also managed to complete a few goals.
#008 – swim in the ocean (several times)
#019 – read 1 book every month (i read 4 on this trip, alone)
#033 – go sailing [...]

honesty = a virtue

yesterday, while i was waiting at the pharmacy, i witnessed an act of truth.  an elderly handicapped woman, who also happened to have strep throat and could barely speak, was informing the pharmacist that they underbilled her $4 for her last prescription.  she was trying her hardest to write them a check for that $4.  the [...]

location is everything

atxmaggie.com expired, and i forgot to renew it.  i didn’t really need, i suppose.  at any rate, this is the new address of this blog.  took me a few days to back up all the posts.  the comments are posted in the left sidebar.  i’m back in action.