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Ready for BSG?
Wait, you’re not watching? OK, catch the frak up NOW, then tune in tonight on SciFi. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_PSOgRAcA[/youtube] That was part one…here’s part two: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2GcJR2uwhw[/youtube] And here’s the preview for the coming season, the final 10 episodes: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PjFSlmtm14[/youtube] Ready? Go!
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Happy Birthday, Grandma
Today is my Grandma’s birthday. She’s 86 years old. I’m not sure anymore that I want to live to be 86, but if I do, I hope I can do it with the grace and spunk that my Grandma has. She’s a wonderful, caring woman, who hasn’t had the easiest life, but still finds something good to say about most people, and never lets you doubt that she’s on your side 110%, as long as you don’t get between her and the dark chocolate in the box of See’s. I remember my mom wrote a wonderful birthday tribute to Grandma a couple of years ago, and I decided to repost…
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Local Boy Makes Good
Hats off today to a local hero, Chelsey B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, captain of the airplane that suffered an emergency landing in the Hudson River today. “Sully” made sure all passengers and crew were off of the plane, walking up and down the aisles twice in a sinking airplane before evacuating himself. (I say local, because he’s a resident of Danville, CA, our neighbor to the south, and the town in which Ted grew up.) What wonderful news, to hear that everyone behaved decently and kindly, and that everyone survived. Thank you to the captain, the crew, and indeed to the passengers who helped keep things calm in the face…
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Throw One Shoe…
Ted mentioned the other day that our economic situation is so bad, that even if every American man, woman, and child were to chip in $1 or $5, it wouldn’t really help anything. I thought, but what if every American man, woman, and child were to throw one shoe at George W. Bush? Heck, even if every man, woman, and child in DC next Tuesday threw a shoe, surely at least one would hit him. THAT’S a movement I could get behind. You have at least one extra shoe lying around, don’t you? That you’d be willing to donate to the cause? A girl can dream, right?
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Casual Classics Challenge
MizB over at MizB Challenges You is hosting 5 different challenges this year, one of which is the Casual Classics Challenge. I’ve been looking for some motivation and accountability to inspire me to read “Mrs. Dalloway”, in case I decide to read “The Hours”. Do you find my life pathetic when you read that sentence? I sorta do, but also, I suspect that those of you who read book blogs and participate in challenges probably understand. The rules of this challenge are quite casual, which is nice. The goal is to read 4 Classics in 2009. That’s it. And the definition of Classics* is pretty loose, too. Any book written…
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I Want to Ride My Bicycle
On Friday, we took my bike in for new tires and inner tubes, and while the kind people at the bike shop were fixing up my bike, I drooled over the new, comfy, touring bikes that they had. All shiny and new and pretty. And I’ll admit it, I want one. There are two that I keep going back and forth on, and I’m not sure which one I would buy if I had the money. They’re both by the same company, Electra, and they’re both touring bikes, which means that you sit pretty much upright when you ride, and they have a nice comfy seat. Check them out. At…
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Revolutionary Road
“He felt as if he were sinking helplessly into the cushions and the papers and the bodies of his children like a man in quicksand. When the funnies were finished at last he struggled to his feet, quietly gasping, and stood for several minutes in the middle of the carpet, making tight fists in his pockets to restrain himself from doing what suddenly seemed the only thing in the world he really and truly wanted to do: picking up a chair and throwing it through the picture window. What in the hell kind of life was this? What in God’s name was the point or the meaning or the purpose…
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Friday Dog Blogging
You wouldn’t believe the week I’m having! Sorry, I forgot to say, “Hi Everyone, this is Genevieve”, but I was distracted by the week I’m having! It started on Wednesday, which was a very bad day. First off, I didn’t get any breakfast. Medium Boss usually feeds me, but I think she forgot or something! Then when we went for our walk, we stopped at the vet’s office! I hate that! Why should we stop there? Usually when we stop there, whichever boss is with me stays in a little room. The doctor takes me into another room and tells me what a pretty girl I am, and feels my…
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Dewey’s Book Challenge
I was looking around for a Classics Reading Challenge yesterday, hoping for some accountability that will get me to read a few classics, when I came across this excellent blog, A Novel Challenge, which lists a TON of current reading challenges. Really. A lot. If you’re looking for a chick lit challenge? She has links to one. Historical Fiction more your thing? She’s got that, too. Practically anything you’re looking for, it’s there. I found a classics challenge there, and as soon as I figure out what I’m going to read for it, I’ll put up a list. Anyway, one of the challenges I came across is the Dewey’s Books…
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Fingers Crossed…
(You can click here to get a larger version and see more of what I’m talking about.) Gen’s going under the knife today, so keep your fingers crossed that she’ll come out fine, OK? If you look closely at this picture, you can see that she has a growth on her bottom eyelid. We call it her lump of coal, or sometimes, eye boo boo. It’s been there for awhile, but it has gotten progressively larger, to the point where her doctor suggested that we remove it. She said it’s unlikely that it’s harming her eye, but she’s worried that Gen will scratch at it more as it gets larger,…
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Spatchcocked Chicken
One of my gifts at Christmas was this cookbook, which promises to provide us with many yummy meals, though they do seem to have a lot of ingredients, and may not be terribly simple. I know many people love Jamie Oliver, think he’s cute and sexy and so on…me, his mouth bugs me too much. I guess I’m like a Seinfeld character, in that any lame thing can be enough to keep my amorous feelings at bay. I mean, I can barely love Curtis Stone, with his heavy breathing while he cooks…Thankfully, my real life love isn’t a heavy breather, and has a completely normal mouth, that doesn’t look like…
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Friday Dog Blogging ~ Saturday Edition
Thanks to Jimmy for the idea, which you can try here.
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Happy New Year!
Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. Really, I feel blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. I had good wishes here, on Facebook, on the phone, and in person. I feel like George Bailey, with his message from Clarence: “Remember, No man is a failure who has friends”. Indeed. I had a lovely birthday, thank you for asking. I would suggest waiting awhile before attempting the California Academy of Science, as it was an absolute ZOO, totally overcrowded and busy busy busy, and we could only stand about an hour of it before we had to bail and go get lunch elsewhere. Really, though,…
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Goodbye 2008…
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. OK, this year has been the worst of my life. My mom’s illness was incredibly stressful, and had me feeling like I was running in circles, scared as hell. Then she died, and the stress was gone, followed by a sadness and emptiness that I wasn’t prepared for, and can’t entirely shake. Add to that Ted losing his job, which has been stressful and worrisome and scary, because you never know how long it will take to find another job. Also, Ted’s aunt passed away in January, his brother was in an accident which required surgery in…
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2009 TBR Book Challenge
Having just finished the TBR Challenge for 2008, I’m ready to set my sights toward 2009. In honor of one of my favorite book bloggers, Dewey, who passed away recently, several of the books on this list are books I came to via her blog, The Hidden Side of a Leaf. So many of the books I’ve read in the last couple of years, I found on her blog. I am going to miss her. The challenge is to read 12 books in 12 months, all at once or spread out, whichever way you want. They cannot be re-reads, and you have to make a list and stick to it,…