The Brokins » Love http://thebrokins.com Fri, 18 May 2012 15:23:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Saying Goodbye to Sadie http://thebrokins.com/2012/05/08/saying-goodbye-to-sadie/ http://thebrokins.com/2012/05/08/saying-goodbye-to-sadie/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 17:09:50 +0000 Jasmine http://thebrokins.com/?p=1827 When Sadie and I started this blog, I knew what I was getting into, but she didn’t. I told her, ” I am going to be a writer, I am going to blog and write a book, I am going to work in social media and create a career that works the way I want [...]

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]]> http://thebrokins.com/2012/05/08/saying-goodbye-to-sadie/feed/ 6 Stuff, Simplicity, and Letting Go of Expectations http://thebrokins.com/2012/04/01/stuff-simplicity-and-letting-go-of-expectations/ http://thebrokins.com/2012/04/01/stuff-simplicity-and-letting-go-of-expectations/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:29:55 +0000 Jasmine http://thebrokins.com/?p=1595 I’ve been reading Minimalist Packrat’s blog over the last couple of days. Finding Tanja’s blog was  Kismet. In a post that made me CRY, Tanja wrote this:

SIMPLE THINGS OFTEN AREN’T SIMPLE

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I got that tank because I had an idealized view of reality in my head, where a small tank of fish [...]

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]]> http://thebrokins.com/2012/04/01/stuff-simplicity-and-letting-go-of-expectations/feed/ 25 International Women’s Day Is About Raising Boys http://thebrokins.com/2012/03/08/international-womens-day-is-about-raising-boys/ http://thebrokins.com/2012/03/08/international-womens-day-is-about-raising-boys/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:24:03 +0000 Jasmine http://thebrokins.com/?p=1493 Huzzah! International Women’s Day. What are we celebrating? All things vagina! Woohoo!… which as it turns out are INTERNAL. I know we call the down there area vagina, but it isn’t.  Your goods, va jay jay,  lady garden, tender flow, and all other euphemism ad nauseum is called VULVA. IF there is one [...]

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]]> http://thebrokins.com/2012/02/14/who-im-loving/feed/ 4 Happy Birthday Sadie http://thebrokins.com/2011/09/05/happy-birthday-sadie/ http://thebrokins.com/2011/09/05/happy-birthday-sadie/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:57:34 +0000 Jasmine http://thebrokins.com/?p=771 What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Well, in this case, they become friends and start a blog together.

I am bossy and as stubborn as hell and Sadie is cranky and stuck in her ways and we are the best of friends. I was chatting with my friend Teej the other [...]

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I turn 26 today, and as telling as that is about how young I am, I feel like I have [...]

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]]> http://thebrokins.com/2011/08/28/siloam-springs-arkansas-2/feed/ 3 Bruises http://thebrokins.com/2011/06/20/bruises/ http://thebrokins.com/2011/06/20/bruises/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:03:43 +0000 Jasmine http://thebrokins.com/?p=309 A few nights ago I took a break from work and drove down the road to gain perspective on my life in the form of a carbonated beverage. It had been an incredibly frustrating evening, so frustrating and disheartening that the only cure I could think of was a Dr Pepper, even though I am working [...]

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“I need my space, I am feeling emotional”

“Feel me murder you MONKEEEEEEY.”

“If Sister wants it she should have made me laugh”

“Oh. I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to Norah.”

“I gonna get KRUNK!”

“What up, yo.”

Ever since he stepped on the [...]

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]]> http://thebrokins.com/2011/06/09/isaiah-j-brown-the-toad/feed/ 10 June 3, 2006-20011 http://thebrokins.com/2011/06/04/june-3-2006-20011/ http://thebrokins.com/2011/06/04/june-3-2006-20011/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:31:55 +0000 Jasmine http://thebrokins.com/?p=297 We met under unusual circumstances: He was playing bass guitar for a revival and I was bored and decided to visit said revival since it was being organized by some friends.

We became instant friends, emailing and talking. (He was totally into me from the beginning!)

Two kids (one on the way), two dogs, two [...]

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