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Wordless Wednesday
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Are You a Re-Reader?
Are there books that you’ve read so many times, you can open them to any page, randomly, and know exactly where you are in the narrative? I am definitely a re-reader, though as I write this, I’m realizing that the books I’ve read and re-read so many times are all books I had read by middle school. Sometimes, I’m just sitting somewhere, minding my own business, and one of these books will call out to me. I wonder, is it the writing itself, or the simplicity of the story, that makes it so easy for me to return, again and again? What is so comforting about these books, that is…
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3 Day Weekend…
It’s Monday afternoon, the weekend is almost over…why can’t every weekend be a three-day-er, I ask? Friday was plumbing and the good news that said plumbing and wall destruction will be paid by the homeowners association. LOVELY! Knew there had to be some advantage to living in a condo… Saturday was a 2-hour drive to Salinas, a chance to get to know my step-mom’s family a little better at her mom’s funeral service. The unexpected cozy feeling in my tummy when she introduced me, not as her step daughter, nor as Michael’s daughter, but just as, “My daughter”. These people were all her family, so they knew that she wasn’t…
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Good News/Bad News
Good News: Though Maya has been sick pretty much since last Saturday evening, she was feeling well enough yesterday to go on a field trip with her class to the Marine Science Institute in Redwood City, about 1.5 hours from here. Bad News: Taking her was a tactical error on my part, because last night she was completely wiped out, and I’m going to keep her home again today to prevent a total relapse. That makes three days of school she’s missed this week. Good News: It looks like we may be able to swing a slightly larger overpriced piece of California Real Estate than we currently have, a townhome…
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Thursday Quiz
OK, because I am driving on a fieldtrip today, and don’t have much time, here you go…. a quiz… What, in your opinion, is the dumbest movie EVER, and I’m mostly hoping for detailed answers to WHY, in option D. A. Cocktail – my reasoning, because any film with a justification for infidelity like “when a man dares you, you can’t say no” (or whatever the actual quote is) is a DUMB film. B. Showgirls – I’ve never actually SEEN this one, but I’ve heard it’s TERRIBLE…almost, “So bad, it’s good”. C. Boxing Helena – Julian Sands was actually pretty groovy in “A Room With A View”, but in this film…
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That Sounds About Right…
You Are A Realistic Romantic It’s easy for you to get swept away by romance… But you’ve done a pretty good job keeping perspective. You’re still taken in by love poems and sunsets You just don’t fall for every dreamy pick up line! Are You Romantic or Realistic?
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Happy Valentine’s Day
To all…but mostly of course, to my dear beloved Py. Love this groovy trip we’re on together, sweetheart.
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Wordless Wednesday
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Fitness Plan…
Aerobic workout with Gilead….check High Fiber cereal with antioxident (and yummy) fresh blueberries for breakfast….check 30 minute nap added to daily schedule….check* Did you see the latest, that a 30 minute nap every afternoon, if you can manage it, is good for your heart? Here is one we’ve all been waiting for: A Harvard study has found that a regular afternoon nap could reduce the risk of cardiac death by 37 percent. First we learned that a glass of red wine is good for the heart, and now so is the midday snooze. For the wine, we have the French to thank. For the nap, we can thank the Greeks.…
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Weekend Wrap Up
Our weekend started off with a steak craving, thanks to Gina’s Friday Poll. Ted isn’t much of a beef eater, his red meat of choice is lamb. However, he’ll make the occasional exception for either an avocado burger at Manny’s if we happen to be in Stockton, or a good Rib Eye steak. On Friday, we decided to go out for a nice Rib Eye, and we hoped to pay a lot less than $200 for the three of us, which left out these pricey favorites. We ended up at Hungry Hunter, but were dismayed to see that the only Rib Eye on the menu was quite complex, with peppercorns…
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Sunday Funnies
One for Miss Cherry, because she gave Maya her vintage “My Pretty Pony” collection, so I thought she might have a laugh at this: [youtube]NEZ5kNZf-7I[/youtube] And one for Autumn’s Mom, and maybe LD as well, because of their Coach addiction: Click the comic to see it larger…
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I’m either in denial, or I’m the most boring person EVER…
You Are 14% Borderline Your personality isn’t borderline anything. You’re happy, stable, content, together… ever consider being a therapist? Do You Have a Borderline Personality? I saw this over at Wendy’s blog, and thought I would play. Am I kidding myself, or am I really that well adjusted? And if I am that adjusted, why aren’t I more successful in my life? And really, what is successful anyway? How would I measure that? Why am I here? Why do I take these tests? What was I thinking? Clearly, I’m kidding myself.
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Friday Thoughts…
Nothing big today… We saw the film, Proof, the other night. It was OK…not GREAT, not sucky. Mostly what I thought was that Gwenyth looks like the movie star version of my sister, Maya, which made me think of Laura Dern looking like the movie star version of me, and wondering who the movie star version of my sister, Melissa is…maybe Emily Longstreth, whom I thought looked like Melissa back in 1989, when she played Kevin Bacon’s girlfriend, Susan, in “The Big Picture”, which was a great movie, by the way. I’m not sure who else Melissa looks like. Someone, I’m sure. That got me to wondering about my brother,…
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Microwave Update
Well, I hope to hell that you all are wrong about the water that’s been leaking from the microwave being some kind of radioactive waste, because both Ted and I have already cleaned it up several times, with no gloves, just towels.  I put the microwave in the backyard this morning, since the counter was completely wet again this morning, and I don’t know if we can legally just throw it in the trash or not… Where do I buy a geiger counter, anyway?Â
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Thirteen Memes…
I was recently tagged for two memes that I’ve already done, and I don’t think I could go through with doing them again, as much as I do love me a good meme. So, I thought, why not milk this for a Thursday Thirteen, another type of meme….I mean, really, why not. So, here you go, Thirteen Memes I’ve completed. Wendy and Curiosity Killer, the first two are the ones you tagged me for: Five Things You May Not Know About Me – Okay, Wendy, yours was 6 things, so here’s one more: I confess so much to you people, that there is nothing left to put here. That’s something…