I learned a little more about our future neighborhood via today’s Tennessean feature:

SoBro, the area south of Broadway in downtown Nashville, includes several new projects:

??? The Encore, an $80 million project at Third Avenue and Demonbreun Street, behind the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, will bring residential and retail space when it opens in spring 2008.

??? The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, between Second and Third avenues, will be a $110 million, 29-story office tower. The anchor tenant will be the Nashville law firm Bass Berry & Simms, and the Pinnacle also will be home to Pinnacle Financial Partners. The building, with 20,000 square feet of street-level retail space, is expected to open in the first quarter of 2010.

??? Rolling Mill Hill, along First Avenue, south of Broadway, will have more than 170 residential units in five buildings.

This development is reusing old buildings, such as the former Metro General Hospital facility and the nurses’ building. The General Hospital facility will become The Art Deco Building and will contain 24 units. The nurses’ building is becoming The Victorian with 12 units. Another building on the property is also being renovated and is becoming The Powerhouse, with nine units.

The three refurbished buildings are expected to be completed by late 2008.

Two new buildings, with expected completion in 2009, will be a six-story, 36-unit building called The Metro, and a 10-story, 92-unit called The District.

Pave and Dave are getting married!

Okay, so this isn’t breaking news. But they do have a fabulous wedding website they just launched so it kind of feels like getting engaged all over again

Yahoo! news reports that cussing at work builds colleague morale.

Well, crap. Guess I’m SOL.

There is a secret to answering the age old question, “what side is the gas tank on?”

I mean seriously. How did we not know this?

This is a great article by Martha Beck about the menacing power of self-doubt.

I loved reading this paragraph:

“These self-limiting behaviors have no positive side; contrary to what many assume, they rarely save us from doing things we’ll later regret. In fact, Gilovich and Medvec have found in other studies that, in the long run, people most often regret the things they failed to try, rather than the things they bombed at. Trying yields either success or an opportunity to learn; not trying has no positive result besides avoiding mockery or envy that (research shows) wouldn’t be nearly as big or bad as we fear.”

And then there’s this part:

“Why not join her by doubling the social behaviors you usually limit: the energy with which you communicate, the intensity of the colors you wear, the number of times you laugh, the clarity of the opinions you voice. You may think this will attract massive disapproval from others. Actually, you’ll be lucky to attract more than a passing glance, and my experience suggests it will be more approving than not.”

Of course, any article with a karate metaphor is good for me.

Did you see this article about how a stressful marriage is damaging to your heart?

I wonder if a fabulous marriage is good for your heart. Like aspirin.

Anyway, I’m lucky that this one was nothing more than an interesting read for me and not a cause for alarm

These past few months have been a nail biter for Predators fans.

But at last! It’s opening night and we can finally just show up, drink beer and occasionally yell, “PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE!”

Of course, I’m a delicate flower and would certainly never yell anything like that. I’m just say’n that others do.

I will miss my hubby, who is unable to attend. But when the team in whose honor you endured great pain in the form of an Indian tattoo reaches the baseball playoffs, well, I can’t really expect you to miss that.  Go Tribe!

Please. Do this.

1. Leave your name

2. Leave your number

3. Leave your number again

4. Be sure that you actually pronounce the consonants needed to form the words that make up your phone number

This public service announcement made possible by a very annoyed woman who can’t call you back because your number sounded like this: fi or oo – ae fi ine eb. What?