Posts by: Susan Cope
Circumstances in life have got me to thinking and considering how I spend my personal time. I have spent the last two years with myself, focusing on me. And I honestly feel it is time for me to open up my world. Simply stated; I want a date a with a real life [...]
Conflicted is an understatement. Right now my heart and my mind are out of alignment. My focus is not on point. And I am protecting myself. Hiding under rock comes naturally, but it is everything I do not want to be in this world. I am ducking for cover, and I am [...]
I spent years living and working in Phoenix, AZ, and I feel as though I was the perfect suburban resident. I battled freeway traffic to my office downtown. And it took me moving to Buffalo, NY in 2008 to realize what living in a city and being involved in a community could mean.
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For almost a week now, I have been under the weather. And it has been an uphill battle to say the very least. I have been severely suffering from cabin fever.
And I have been subjected to mixing my vodka with Emergen-C. Trust me it is not my first [...]
For the past few days I have been quarantined to my tiny little 520 square foot apartment. The flu has taken me down. I am talking the ‘I would not wish this on my worst enemy’ type of sickness. My nose thinks it is part of the Double Dare obstacle course and my eyes are convinced [...]
The other day I decided to fully indulge and have a date with myself. It was one day just for me to embrace my inner girly girl.
Shoes and makeup!
And an adorable new dress.
This detail sold me on the entire dress.
And [...]
So the past few days have been filled with superior day drinking weather. It has been the perfect combination of temperatures in the low 70′s and sunny during the afternoon with temperatures falling to the low 50′s at night. I am talking windows open, music blaring and dance parties in my world right now.
And [...]
I often keep the line item of “make a bad decision” on my to-do list, and I do ridiculous things on a regular basis. So often in fact, that I am privileged enough to have a lovely little sign above me desk.
Yes, I am forbidden from any crazy activities.
And the [...]
Over the course of the past three days, I have felt as though I have been called to a challenge on precisely two occasions. Competitive me wants to rise to the summons of the contests, but introvert me insists on standing on the sidelines. And those pesky little angel and devil cartoon characters have been weighing [...]
Tomorrow marks the end of my thirty day gluten and dairy free challenge that I posed to myself at the beginning of the year. It all began with a verbal commitment between two friends over random office chit chat. Stephanie and I had both agreed that we would embark on 2012 with what [...]
