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• Posted My Weekend With Monkeyfish to Chez Rougie
  I spent the weekend with my parents and my 4.5yo nephew, Monkeyfish, and it was all kinds of awesome. We baked cookies We played Lotto (because he's too old for Candyland and Chutes & Ladders BREAK MY HEART NOW WHY DON'T YOU...
• Posted File Under P For Progress to Chez Rougie
  First of all - I am totally blown away by the generosity of friends, family and readers. I sent a private email to a few folks on Sunday, announcing my intention to participate in the Komen Race for the Cure...
• Posted Dressing for Success to Chez Rougie
  I work in a male-dominated industry however I have never subscribed to the theory that I have to dress like a man in order to be taken seriously. I prefer dresses to pants, sweaters to jackets, and I am not afraid...
• Posted Racing For The Cure to Chez Rougie
  Usually I sit on the sidelines.  Usually I don't get involved.  I don't know why because I know women who have been affected. I should want to contribute. I should want to help. I should want to make a difference....
• Posted Electricity Makes Me Nervous and When It Breaks I Panic to Chez Rougie
  Electricity freaks me out (it probably has something to do with my totally unnatural fear of spontaneous combustion) so whenever there is any electrical work being done at my house, my already high levels of neuroses tend to climb even higher.  The...
• Posted Rougie Unplugged to Chez Rougie
  I am a plugged in kind of gal - to the point that I rank Internet access up there with water and oxygen as far as things required to survive. Those who know me know that my Blackberry is frequently...
• Posted My Mama Done Raised Me Right. Kinda. to Chez Rougie
  I am, in real life, a fairly classy girl. I say please and thank you. I say "yes ma'am" to the woman at the grocery store when she asks me if I found everything I was looking for (even if...
• Posted Because Apparently My Life Requires 17 Theme Songs to Chez Rougie
  Ask and ye shall receive. Such is the power of the Internet. Last week I asked y'all to help me come up with a new theme song for my life and the responses were overwhelming.  Seriously. I thought that my new...
• Posted How To Be Alone to Chez Rougie
  One of the things I've struggled with in the last year is how to be alone.  For over 12 years I shared a life and a home with another human being so being alone was not something I had to...
• Posted Rougie's Big 35th Birthday Bash to Chez Rougie
  I started out the evening in a princess party dress and tiara because as we say Chez Rougie, a tiara is not just an accessory, it's a way of life.   The spread minus the mac & very expensive...
• Posted Diving Right In to Chez Rougie
  Your father is in the hospital.   Words I have long feared hearing and yet words I heard a few weeks ago.   Your father is in the hospital.   I freaked. And started sobbing hysterically because OMG: I don't...
• Posted Sometimes Eagerness To Please Can Bite You In The Ass to Chez Rougie
  A few weeks ago, I stepped on tripped over my Blackberry while it was plugged in and laying on the floor charging and while I didn't crush it into 1000 little pieces, the damage was bad enough that I had...
• Posted Because If You Can't Paint Your Toes Blue When You Turn 35, When Can You? to Chez Rougie
  I had a work thing last night and so I crashed at The Realtor's rather than make the 45 mile drive home.  Best part? Waking up on my birthday and getting to have breakfast with 2 of my closest, dearest,...
• Posted My Life Requires A New Theme Song to Chez Rougie
  When I turned 30, my mantra was: Rougie - 30 and Fabulous. Last year, I embraced turning 34 with Christina Aguilera's "Keeps Gettin' Better" as my own, personal theme song. Tomorrow I turn 35 and I need a new theme song....
• Posted I'm A Girl Scout. Not a Terrorist. to Chez Rougie
  While I was never actually a Girl Scout, I do carry a Swiss Army Knife in my purse because frankly, I like to be prepared.  I mean you never know when you're going to need a knife or a pair of scissors...
• Posted BlogHer in Bullets to Chez Rougie
  I was writing my BlogHer post in my head while driving home from the airport this morning and when I was only at Friday afternoon after 10 miles, I realized it was too long. So for now, you got BlogHer...
• Posted What A Difference 365 Days Makes to Chez Rougie
  August 5, 2009: In what can only be described as the ultimate act of clumsy, I opened a car door into my own head and gave myself a concussion.  It took me 39 minutes and calls/texts to 7 different people...
• Posted The Upside of Being Thirtysomething and Single to Chez Rougie
  So I had lunch today with the The Realtor and seeing as we are both smart, savvy, sexy, successful, single Leos we got to talking about quite a few things including being single in your 30s and we decided that being...
• Posted Moving Target to Chez Rougie
  My calendar has been and continues to be busy.  From New York to the Lake to Maine to Kiawah to New York to the Mountains to Boston to my parents and finally Connecticut by way of Boston. And that's just through...
• Posted Caretaker to Chez Rougie
  I pride myself on being independent. I pride myself on being self-sufficient. I pride myself on being able to take care of myself.   But last night? Last night I wanted a caretaker. I wanted somebody else to get the...
• Posted Reason # 8251 Why Twitter Is Genius to Chez Rougie
  Over 2 months ago, the Department of Transportation notified me that my driver's license was going to expire in about 2 months and they were giving me plenty of time to get my shit together, go to the DMV, and...
• Posted If...(Questions for the Game of Life) to Chez Rougie
  While I was in Maine, I stumbled upon a book at the Brit Girl's called If...(Questions for the Game of Life) by Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell. It is essentially a collection of hypothetical questions ranging from the mundane to...
• Posted Cheek'd to Chez Rougie
  So I think I started about 2 or 3 posts about breaking up with JDate but I don't think I ever hit publish because by the time I got around to it, the break-up was long behind me and I...
• Posted Maine: In Pictures to Chez Rougie
  So you're probably all: why the Hell did she post a picture of nothing? Well, when we arrived, it was pitch black except for the thousands of beautiful stars. I tried to photograph the stars but I don't exactly...
• Posted I Want To Be a Mainer And Eat Lobster All The Time and Drive a Really Awesome Boat Except When It's Cold to Chez Rougie
  Although The Brit Girl and her family have lived in London for over 20 years, they've owned a house in Maine for 30 years and for 30 years that's where they've spent their summers.  I've known Brit Girl for over...
• Posted The Universe Knew I Was Going To Maine and Decided to Make My Life Hell First to Chez Rougie
  It was like the Universe knew I was leaving last Wednesday to go on the world's most awesome vacation to Maine (hence my absence from the Internets) and decided to heap every last ounce of shit it possibly could in...
• Posted I Went To Lunch And Then I Died Because The Apple Store Is Hell On Earth to Chez Rougie
    I needed to buy an iPod for a work thing (don't ask) and so yesterday I figured I'd pop over to the mall during lunch and grab one at the Apple store. I had planned to walk (the mall...
• Posted I Believe the Children Are The Future. I'm Just Not Sure If They Are My Future. to Chez Rougie
  When I was little, I always knew what I wanted to be when I grew up: a Mom.  I was the daughter of 2 happily married parents and I naturally assumed that my adult life would mirror theirs.  I'd be...
• Posted Another Awesome Weekend to Chez Rougie
  It was a whirlwind of a weekend!  Saturday was The Librarian's bridal shower and not only was I a guest, I was also the caterer. Yes, I was actually hired and paid to cater the party although truth be told,...
• Posted Smooth Operator to Chez Rougie
  Three things in the last few days have really made me rethink my diet: 1) Primal Matriarch, also known to some of you as Modern Matriarch. Her updates and posts on going primal are INSPIRING.  She's got energy. She's radiant. She looks...