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Blog Swap 2010: Guest Blogger Melissa List

Meet Melissa!

“Action. What will you do next year that you’ve been putting off for too long?” That’s what 20-Something Bloggers asked us in their 2010 Blog Swap, and my partner, Melissa List has some great goals for the year ahead, along with some fierce tenacity to accomplish them! Visit Melissa’s Blog and join her in her resolutions!!

I have three goals for 2011 and while many people choose healthy resolutions…it has become quite the cliché to do so. Everyone says they want to lose weight. Usually an exorbitant amount that is IMPOSSIBLE. People set themselves up with these huge goals and when they don’t meet them within just a few weeks, they just give up. Well, this year, I refuse to give up. REFUSE.

Goal #1: Become an actual RUNNER.

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Quote of the Day

“I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces — my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that.”– Elizabeth Edwards

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How Much Would You Pay Me to Wear This Dress to My Cousin’s Wedding?

The Carroll Family at Uncle Tom and Aunt Eileen's Wedding, 1993. You know you love this picture.

Ok, not the floral one I’m so elegantly sporting in the pic above (but that can be arranged too since it still fits) but the spicy black number my mom is rocking. Hard.

Those that know me know I’ve been obsessed with this dress since the day it fatefully entered into our lives, and I’m getting the feeling (mostly because I don’t want to go shopping) that it needs to come out of retirement Dec. 4.

But I do need a little coaxing, because this dress…it’s a lot of look. The last time I tried to pull it off was when I was invited to my cousin Matt’s graduation dinner at West Point. I was promptly disinvited until I could find something more appropriate to wear. To say I was disappointed would be grossly understated.

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