Confessions of a Middle Aged Teenager

August 30, 2010

Here’s my confession:  Gig Girl has significant boundary issues when it comes to my preferred media indulgences and what is considered “age appropriate” by the masses for my specific demographic.  Put simply: I’m a pop culture junkie.  Don’t get me wrong, my English literature and creative writing degree means I love the classics and can […]

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My Own Backyard – Lessons in Perspective III

August 18, 2010

Achieving a first time ever threepeat, Gig Girl is posting one last blog on perspective for theme week. Please click here and here to read the first two posts (I promise, I’m done after this one this week). When it comes to perspective, the Hubs and I are wired very differently.  Perhaps it’s a guy/(Gig) […]

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The View From Here – Lessons in Perspective II

August 17, 2010

Post II in Gig Girl’s Perspective Theme Week (see Post I here) involves my pre-retirement/pre-leap-of-faith self.  As I’ve mentioned in the past, my former place of employment was not exactly a “family friendly” work environment.  The demanding hours which often included late nights and weekends, the raised eyebrows and heavy sighs over vacation request forms […]

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The View From Here – Lessons in Perspective I

August 16, 2010

A lot of blogs ardently adhere to “theme week” formatting.  I read these blogs, I enjoy what a theme week provides to me as a reader and I truly look forward to each new post in a particular motif.  However, as a still green blogger, rookie work-from-home business owner, newbie stay-at-home mommy and completely out-of-practice […]

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When There Are No Words – The Grand Finale

August 4, 2010

For anyone who hasn’t had the chance to read Part I and Part II of this Gig Girl series, please click here and here to connect the Dots… After hearing Dr. T’s announcement regarding Dot’s dismissal, I immediately burst into tears.  This was certainly not the outcome Hubs and I had been pursuing.  We had […]

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When There Are No Words: Part II

July 28, 2010

If you haven’t had the chance to read Part I of this Gig Girl series, please click here to catch up (we’ll wait patiently). Again, please note that I’ve changed the names of some of the people and parties involved.  It’s a looooooong story (I suppose “When There Are No Words” is a complete misnomer […]

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When There Are No Words: Part I

July 19, 2010

When I started Gig Girl, one of the things I immediately shared was my struggle to conceive.  I wrote about my two painful miscarriages and divulged that my husband and I were in the beginning stages of the dreaded “infertility process.” You may have noticed there hasn’t been much discussed about the topic since.  I […]

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My Own Worst Frenemy (I love me, I love me not…)

July 6, 2010

When I went through my divorce, I had the unforeseen and unfortunate opportunity to find out who I could count amongst my true friends.  The failure and dissolution of my first marriage taught me countless humbling life-lessons, none of which I could have endured without the unwavering support of my inner circle of family and […]

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Man Plans, God Laughs

June 27, 2010

To put it simply; Gig Girl has blown it…big time.  Tomorrow marks my two year anniversary, which besides the birth of my son, quite literally embodies the most precious event of my entire life.  On this day I gained a devoted life partner, O and I forever discarded the term “duo” in favor of “family” […]

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Feast or Famine

June 23, 2010

As a teenage girl, my best friend Elaine’s mom had a favorite expression; “Feast or Famine.” She used the idiom most often when describing the ebb and flow of high school (and later college) boys who would float in and out of our lives.  One minute, our phones (Sidenote: these were landlines, mind you, as […]

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