She found the newfound freedom had at least one unexpected perk: "I can go to more of my friends' shows!"
"When I go out to dinner with my friends and no one stares at me or asks to be moved to a table further away from me, that's a good day, " she says.
Depressed and lost, my friends encouraged me to go back to school (I had 20 credit hours under my belt that I had paid for myself but could not figure out the major that fit me).
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The best way to go, of course, is to lease a Volt, as my friends did recently.
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Like most Americans, I wake up every day and think about my wife, my daughter, my friends, my neighbors, my job and go to work.
But if I could go to tripadvisor.com and have my Facebook friends show up and have that infrastructure all there, then there's not going to be a need for another social network, because they're all going to be integrated with the information that already exists at Facebook.
However, I also go to the gym every day, take time to play tennis, meditate and go to my recovery support meeting, meet with friends, and have certain times of the day that are off-limits for doing work (unless very extenuating circumstances), namely the evening from when I pick up my daughter at school until when she goes to sleep.
Now that their kids are getting older, most of my friends are longing to go back to work.
The world has lost a wonderful man today, and my deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends.
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And there are times where I want to go back and forth between my game and a movie, or times when I want to be with my friends, and we'll be watching a movie, then we want to switch to a video game, etc.
March is the time of year when I go into hiding because I don't want to annoy my friends by reminding them that college basketball bites.
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And I also -- before I go any further -- I want to acknowledge one of my dear friends who is here with us, the First Lady of Mexico, Mrs.
But with TripAdvisor and my friends advice, we were able to go down many alleys and explore local haunts far off the beat trail.
I, along with many of my family members and friends, was able to go to college and graduate school because we had access to financial aid.
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You know, after Sound Dances it was great because it was a dream of mine to go there and record music over there with some of my old friends.
Not many people my age send an email to ask friends to hit the town, or go see a movie.
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Then I set up a friends list to allow only the people I add to the list to go to my in box.
Over the past week I've noticed that a lot of my friends have joined, and that everywhere I go online the name Pinterest seems to crop up.
The kindred spirit friends I have, whether from earlier years or made more recently, are my go-to resources.
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