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My first job was...

Posted 22nd January 2008 by Lylah M. Alphonse, tagged first job

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... doing a little bit of everything at my mother's Indian restaurant. I had just turned 10.By the time she closed the restaurant, five years later, I had been a waitress, a kitchen prep person, a dishwasher, a bus "boy", a dessert server, a runner, a hostess, a cashier, and a cook. Great experience!

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Could it really be a productive snow day?

Posted 14th January 2008 by Lylah M. Alphonse

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It's snowing again in the Boston area, and today I am working from home. And, for now, I'm actually getting things done -- amazing! My 3 year old and my 1 year old are playing with plastic farm animals and things are miraculously quiet. Usually, quiet is a bad thing when you're talking about little…

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It can only get better from here, yes?

Posted 20th December 2007 by Lylah M. Alphonse

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As if this week wasn't stressful enough...Eight more inches of snow (and still falling!) outside, and no sign of the guy who plows out or street and driveway. After last week's storm debacle, there is no way I'm going to haul my bum out of the house and into the office, 38 miles away. Small mercy: My…

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What are some things that your work colleagues would never guess about you?

Posted 10th December 2007 by Lylah M. Alphonse, tagged colleagues

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That I love classical music, and played violin in Carnegie Hall when I was 16 (I think they think I'monly interested in kids and cooking and news).That I wanted to be a pediatrician when I was a kid (then I took AP biology and discovered that I'm not, um, gifted when it comes to science).That I'm really…

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Where'd I go?

Posted 5th December 2007 by Lylah M. Alphonse

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 I was sorting through photos for our Christmas cards when I noticed that I don't have a single, solitary shot with me in it. Plenty of great photos of the kids, a fantastic one of our three oldest with my husband, cute pictures of the littles two with my husband or each other or their big siblings…

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