Breaking Even blog is mostly business and money related but Fridays, I'm going to write about whatever I darn well feel like. Because aren't Fridays supposed to be fun? 

And when I think of fun lately, I keep thinking about the part of last weekend where I parked my butt on a couch. Instead of watching the Superbowl last Sunday, ie the most watched television program in recorded history, I watched 'Jule and Julia'. It was a movie about cooking and blogging, two of my favorite things. 

I actually enjoyed myself. Meryl Streep's performance makes me wish I would have met the real Julia Child and Amy Adams makes an adorable blogger.

My first, eye-rollingly geeky first impression is that this movie makes blogging look easy. Within a few months, Julie's blog gets over 50 comments in one day and by the end, the New York Times has featured her. I've been blogging going on three years. Honestly, I'm ecstatic when more than two of you reading this decide to comment. 

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Where has the Breaking Even blog been? It's a good question.

I promised I'd never write an apology post but this blog needs one. I am sorry I haven't been keeping things up. For the last few weeks, I've been looking at this blog as a chore. In short, I had forgotten why I started writing it, which is that I love not only the idea of blogs but an excuse to write on a regular basis.

I am back in love with the Breaking Even blog, folks!

This week, it's back to the usual schedule from now on. You can now count on a posting multiple times a week:

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Last week, I was slammed with the classic terrible summer cold. I am feeling better now but it did make me miss having sick days just a little bit...

Here are some interesting things I've read:

Pay What You Want Taxi @ Boston Gal's Open Wallet
'Freakonomics' originally found that pay-as-you-go systems were actually profitable and here's  another example of that.

Sold! @ Rural Runway
I am often guilty for forgetting about eBay. Boy am I happy when I remember though. Just last week, I scored a fantastic brand new Anne Klein silk dress for $40. A fellow Maine blogger, the gal at Rural Runway talks fashion and how to sell it for fun and profit on eBay. Great tips.

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I subscribe to over 200 blogs and websites but you certainly wouldn't know it from my blog recently. I've basically had time to read and bookmark and that's about it. And then I get frustrated that my stuff isn't getting linked!

Yeah, I get it; it's time to pop out of my oh-my-life-is-a-whirlwind-of-change bubble and do a little aknowledgement of cool things going on elsewhere online, because there are certainly plenty.

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So at lunch yesterday, John said the exact thing you never want to hear at the beginning part of a relationship.

"There is something I need to tell you."

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