tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31552252012-01-09T00:25:32.890-06:00It's MY life. Get busy living or get busy dying...casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.comBlogger6671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-67166770679055728122012-01-08T20:57:00.000-06:002012-01-08T20:57:32.528-06:00

Hello again. Time flies. This week was busy at work, and Thursday was Girl Scout night (cookie sales coming up). I felt good because I had pretty well stuck to the healthier eating plan, even if the scale wasn't reporting anything--yet.Then I got a new digital scale on Saturday and weighed in. Discouragement! I weighed the same that I weighed when I went to the doctor a few weeks ago. Very

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Image via Wikipedia Today I had to run to the big grocery store and get a few items for supper (pizza; not good for my goal of healthy eating), and fell in love with the organic aisle.I love granola and found a package by Bob's Red Mill that I can snack on or add to my breakfast yogurt. In addition, I found some flax seed, which I've been reading aabout. I steered clear of the organic potato

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-40389288944000044042012-01-03T22:12:00.000-06:002012-01-04T22:18:53.902-06:00

Image via Wikipedia Soooo. last night I was totally exhausted and didn't write. oops. back on the horse today. So far, I feel I've been doing well with my goals, especially with breaking the junk food habit. I used to have 2 donuts and a diet soda every morning for breakfast, and this is the second day without the donuts. :) not only am I cutting calories, I'm saving money too.I find myself

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Image via Wikipedia I am so glad 2011 is gone. It has been a challenging year. Once again, I was followed around by the black dog, and when I sat down to reflect on my accomplishments in 2011, I couldn't think of anything, other than work. And as we all know, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. As always, I have many resolutions and goals for the upcoming year. One of them is to pay

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Image via WikipediaI hid my tears with sunglasses, a pair of cheap black fake Ray-Bans, that I thought were so cool. How could she be gone? The cancer had finally killed her. Her bodily shell lay in the next room, but there was no way I could bear to see it. It wasn't her. The her I remembered was still in the blue house in that small town, where we used to go on weekends, to have her babysit us

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-83822279088911948472011-07-16T22:35:00.001-05:002011-07-16T22:35:08.566-05:00

photo from psychologytoday.com Wow. A lot has changed around here since I wrote last. I need to investigate all the changes Blogger has made.Another year has gone by. I am a year older, and maybe not so much wiser. I lost my job, but then got hired with a new company that does the same kind of work I was doing. I now work harder than I ever have worked in my life. LOLDD will be in sixth grade

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-72259851140049533022011-07-16T22:02:00.002-05:002011-07-16T22:36:32.542-05:00

Test post from my smartphone. Yes, I am now joining the 21st century.

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Sunday, a day of rest and reflection... well I at least rested, taking a 2 hour nap this afternoon. Church was interesting this morning, with the readings and homily being about how a person has to choose the correct choices, or at least think very hard before making a choice. I didn't do anything creative today, yet. I still need to write in my paper journal. I had such a busy weekend, with

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This summer, when I slipped into my favorite pair of sandals, they fit like a glove, all broken in, the leather soft and supple from last summer's constant wearing. But the soles were cracked, and had started falling apart. I didn't want to give them up because they fit so well. So I've kept wearing them. Sometimes, when I was out at the mall, I would stop in a shoe store and look at other

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I buy and sell on Ebay. I mostly buy. Recently I sold two items. One was a group of three items, two in perfect working condition, one was for parts only (which I listed on the auction). The group sold for what I was expecting it to sell for--the opening bid. No big deal. It was only $30. So I was surprised when about two weeks after the buyer had received the items that I had a case opened

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-20311148953580534592009-12-01T23:58:00.001-06:002009-12-01T23:58:54.536-06:00

It's the most wonderful time of the year..... The time leading up to Christmas Day is chock full of anticipation. I remember when I was a kid how every day in December seemed to crawl by because I was so excited for Santa to come. I could not wait for school to get out for Christmas vacation! Back then, it seemed like we had two and a half weeks off to lounge around and play in the snow. I'm

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-77984017957623102972009-01-19T14:13:00.002-06:002009-01-19T14:18:20.479-06:00

Well, it has been a LONG time since I've done any sort of organized exercise. DD & I ride our bikes when it's warm, but other than that, I am a couch potato. However, that is about to change.DH has had lower back problems for some time. His chiropractor advised him to start walking 2-3 miles per day. So we're joining a fitness center. It will be good for both of us, because I need to lose about

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-53839717839127941662009-01-01T21:24:00.003-06:002009-01-01T21:36:34.671-06:00

Well, constant reader, another year has come and gone. Alas, I feel I don't have much to show for it."If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living."—Gail SheehyAin't that the truth?So this year is going to be different. I know I've said that a thousand times before. But this time, change has to take place. I spent most of 2008 in a dark depressive funk, one in

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Yikes! It's been forever and a day since I posted. Not so good for keeping up with posting every day in 2008.Let's see...I had an emergency appendectomy on February 22. I thought I just had the flu, but decided to go to the ER and, 2 hours after I arrived, they said yeah, you have acute appendicitis. Glad to know it was an emergency! I had to take a whole week off work to recover, but thankfully,

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If you live in a Super Tuesday voting state, get out and do your part to select your next presidential nominee. I already voted this morning.DD has a cold or some other sort of plague, and so I had to stay home with her today. But I did my part and voted.Some people think that voting is not important, or that it doesn't impact them. I admit, I don't vote in every single primary or election, but I

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Ebay SalesI recently began selling stuff on Ebay. Because we went to so many auctions last summer, it seemed only natural that I start selling some of the items we purchased, as well as other items around the house we no longer needed.This week, I have a Dooney and Bourke small bucket tassel handbag, brand new with tags; a cute Romanian art glass basket; a leather briefcase; two Disney books with

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Yikes! So I didn't do so hot updating my blog in January. January is kind of one of those blah months. I can actually feel a bit of hope that Spring is coming, right around the corner, in spite of the 7 inches of snow on Friday, and in spite of how foggy it is outside right now. LOLWe're watching the Superbowl, hoping for the Giants to upset the Patriots. Neither DH nor myself can stand "

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Well, today the day dawned bright and sunny, but cold. The snowplows had gotten all the roads cleared off, pretty much, so we decided to drive the hour to visit the in-laws.They had over 100 pictures of their trip to Germany. In addition to visiting their friends, they went to the House of 1000 Clocks, and to this Christmas store. They walked and walked everywhere, which was shocking, because my

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Overnight, we got 7 inches of snow and it hasn't quite let up yet!DD was driving me crazy about going outside to play. I swear, that kid never stops yakking! (And there for awhile, we thought she was never going to learn to talk!) So she spent about two hours outside this morning already, in her new used snowsuit and snowboots I bought off Ebay. DD says they keep her nice and warm, so that's good

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-84481918923559376902008-01-07T21:02:00.000-06:002008-01-07T21:27:52.492-06:00

As I drove through town this evening on my way home from work at twilight, I noticed that a lot of homes still have Christmas displays up with lights on.Really, people, it's time to take down the lights. Christmas was three weeks ago already.Of course, even though the holidays are over, that doesn't mean we have to give up on the Christmas Spirit, which should last all year through anyway. And

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THE 5000 QUESTION SURVEY Version 2.0The entire survey is available here.1. Who are you? a person2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you? I don't like stupidity, I'm loyal, and I'm intelligent.3. Who did you take this survey from? (the entire survey is available here.) When you aren't filling out 5000 question surveys, what are you doing? Working.4. List your classes

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It's time to put away the decorations. It's time to clean up the wrapping paper and leftover boxes. It's time to find room for all the new toys and clothes. Out with the old and in with the new...I wish it were that simple. Let's see, to start with, DD's room is a complete and utter disaster area. Tomorrow evening or this weekend, we will start by attacking her closet. Closet must be cleaned out

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-19986008825383204892008-01-01T19:32:00.000-06:002008-01-01T21:42:10.079-06:00

"Re-Create in 2008!" is my goal for the year.Although I did accomplish some things in 2007, I still managed to drift through the year. As I reflect on 2007, I wonder where the time went. What do I have to show for it?I'll be 36 in June, and 35 hit me hard: where am I now and where am I going? Is this where I want to be? If I died right now, would I die happy? In some respects, yes, but in other

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-84740553447817175782007-12-13T11:08:00.000-06:002007-12-13T11:22:06.674-06:00

13 Things I Still Need to Do to Get Ready for XmasMake sure I have the ingredients to make gingerbread men. Buy soda for family party on Sunday, 12/16.Find book I plan to give to niece and finish wrapping her gift. Wrap stuff to help out Santa. Buy gifts for DH. Clean living room.Clean kitchen. Put stuff in proper places. Hook up new computer. Organize ebay and half.com stuff in computer room (

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Survey About Christmas Habits1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? wrapping paper (bagsfor bottles etc) 2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial 3. When do you put up the tree? Normally right after Thanksgiving, or first week of December 4. When do you take the tree down? After the new year5. Do you like eggnog? never had it 6. Favorite gift received as a child? Bruce Springsteen, Live 75-85 boxed

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A: animals, my petsB: my DH, whose name begins with BC: citalopramD: dogs, who make me laughE: energy, to clean off my deskF: family and friendsG: girly stuff, like dolls and makeupH: health, we are all healthyI: imagination!J: my DD, whose name begins with JK: kitchen, because when I clean, I feel betterL: love, without it, I am nothingM: mess, because when I clean I feel like I've accomplished

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What a way to start November: unmotivated, with a cold, and DH having to have surgery to remove his gallbladder next week. Sigh. Oh, wait: is it really November already!? Hard to believe, isn’t it?At least I have the majority of my Xmas shopping done. I’m not going overboard like last year. DD is getting one big present and some smaller presents and that is it. No guilt from Walmart ads on tv or

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Nanowrimo time! Go join the hysteria.I have not much to say as to where I've been for the past several months. Is it really October? And is it really MID-October? My last remaining grandparent, my mother's mother, passed away on August 12. That required a quick trip to Florida and back. My youngest sister got married on Sept. 29. Thank the gods that's done and over with. DD has been sick all this

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-51025767821898493242007-07-27T10:16:00.000-05:002007-07-27T10:19:58.950-05:00

Blogathon starts on July 28.Shelfari: a fun place to list books you've read.Bookmooch: a fun place to trade books with others.Enjoy!

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Since we've been going to local auctions just about every weekend, I've learned a few things.1. Get to the auction site early to see if there is anything worth staying for. Auction sale bills tend to talk a great talk, but you might discover that everything advertised is just junk. However, that brings me to another point: 2. One man's trash is another man's treasure.3. You might be surprised by

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-69972227508313438682007-06-18T21:38:00.000-05:002007-06-26T09:38:50.840-05:00

Happy birthday to me!I'm 35 today. Where does the time go?

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Happy Mothers' Day to all you mothers out there, past, present and future!I hope you all had a great day. DH and DD got me my favorite candies and we had a cookout with DH's parents at a park near their house. The weather was so great, and it was nice to be outside.Alas, my allergies flared up in the evening. I could hardly breathe! We spent the evening watching Food Network. Being outdoors wore

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-49446144092757660052007-05-10T23:13:00.000-05:002007-05-11T13:21:33.703-05:00

Thirteen TV shows I'm watching lately"Lost"--getting more and more intriguing!"Stargate Atlantis"--although this show is sometimes boring, I still enjoy watching it."Stargate SG1"--I was there in the beginning, so I decided to be there at the end."Dresden Files"--It's over for the moment, but it was a great filler on Sci-Fi. (Based on books by Jim Butcher, it made me want to go buy all the books!

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-79574587919360580982007-05-08T10:14:00.000-05:002007-05-08T10:47:23.201-05:00

"Fat Girl" by Judith Moore is a memoir—about the pain of growing up fat during the 1940s and 1950s. At 208 pages, it is a quick read.The narrator says she was thin until her parents divorced when she was four years old. Through several chapters, the reader learns of the narrator's constant abuse at the hands of her mother and maternal grandmother. She turns to food for comfort, which spirals into

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-21802404041848794782007-05-01T20:43:00.000-05:002007-05-01T20:46:14.781-05:00

Let me know if you cannot see this site in any other browser except IE.

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So, in my last entry, I was bemoaning the fact that the house felt like a cluttered mess. DH did get things cleaned up, with DD's help. They straightened up the computer room and her bedroom, which really weren't all that messy. The thought of the mess was more overwhelming than the actual mess. However, guess what we've been doing lately...That's right: going to auctions and buying other

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-59361834949437017762007-04-03T12:30:00.000-05:002007-04-04T15:31:23.304-05:00

The mere amount of junk we have collected in a matter of the 8 years we have lived in our house is astonishing. (Of course, I had cluttered a two-bedroom apartment in a year, so why should I be surprised, right?)DD starts her spring break this Friday, and I told her that if she (along with our help) can get her room cleaned up and is able to keep it clean for one month, then we will redecorate

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Where have I been these past several weeks, you ask?Well, let's see, in late January, I decided to take the plunge and invest in a new car. It's a 2006 Ford Focus, in bright red. I love it, but I certainly didn't want yet another payment. However, my old car was dying. It was 15 years old, and I was expending more mental energy worrying about whether it would crap out on me or keep running.In

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I looked back through some previous paper journals of mine this weekend.I don't recognize any of those selves who wrote those entries. I see that I mostly try, try again to start fresh, with a clean slate, but then fall directly into my tirades of self-pity and then proceed to jump back onto the Emotional Express. I must have three whole years' worth of the same same sameness.Something's gotta

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Bridesmaid (mocha brown, style 6323)flowergirl (ivory dress with mocha brown trim, style 6139)Guess how much they cost? --$150, each. Yep, DD's dress cost the same as mine. Good thing I don't have to pay it all up front.My youngest sis is getting married in September. I can hardly wait.

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Item: The house furnace went on the fritz during this latest cold spell. Can't live without heat, so paid HVAC technician $139 to fix the problem. So far, so good.Item: Received warning ticket for not having muffler on my Mustang. (It does have a muffler; part of the pipe underneath had broken off--last year. It's illegal to not have a muffler, apparently.) Had to fix exhaust system for $176--

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Thirteen Things to do Indoors when the Weather Outside is Frightfulcurl up with a good booktake a napplay with your petswatch tv while you're wrapped up in a blanketexercisebake some cookiesget to that insurmountable stack of laundry that has begun to pile updrag out an old sampler (or other craft project) that you've been working on for a year or longerplay indoor hide and seek with your kid(s)

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Please note that this blog may be undergoing some growing pains in the short term. Blogger sent me an invitation to migrate to the new Blogger, and I've went ahead and migrated.I will probably be updating the blog template eventually as well, so please bear with me. I'm trying to catch up on posting; I have entries for all of December, but I have to get them posted. Old posts are boring, though,

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One Town's Price

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Thirteen Things to do to get ready for a birthdaygo to local party store and buy goodies for 19 goody bagsgo to grocery store and buy two cake mixes and two containers of icinggo homechange clothes, load up dishwasher so that I can have room to make cupcakes, let dogs outlook for cupcake tinfind cupcake tin, let in dogsmix up cupcakes and put one batch in the oven for 20 minutes divide up goodies

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Ten Things that Make Me Smile DD the dogs DH's work stories finding time to write finding time to meditate to relax reading a funny e-greeting card from a friend labeling blog entries instead of watching 4 hours of "Cops" looking at some family pictures propped up on the keyboard as I type reading several books over the weekend recalling scenes from a couple of movies we

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Thirteen Things I've Been Doing Instead of Updating My Blogwatching 3 to 4 hours of "Cops" every eveningwriting in my paper journal (#69, "Rebirth")catching up on my readingwriting lists of things I want to do this yeargoing to bed earlyplaying with DDplaying with the dogswatching football playoffs (yeah, don't ask)reading Metafilter and AskMetafilterwatching tvdoing laundryswitching to the new

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Ten Things Left Behind in 2006 personal angst the Well of Self-Pity guilt anger fear self-disgust unhappiness dissatisfaction bitter old hag bitterness/jealousy of others Ten Things Embraced in 2007 spirituality/spiritual journey fearlessness creativity love of myself (self-love) JOY! faith hope destiny (!?) mindfulness/living in the present contentedness,

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Mag turned two today. We've had him for a little over a year. It was a struggle at first, to get him used to the routine around here. It had been so long since we had a puppy/young dog. Mag had never even seen stairs before.I wondered if he and Husky would fight and end up not getting along, but after a bit of a "showing the mean teeth" by the Husky, Mag settled right in.I wondered if he would

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Woke up feeling totally crappy today. Had a long day at work. Listened to my cassette tape of Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits album on the drive home, sang out loud, and started to feel better.It was amazing how listening to my favorite artist made me feel so much better. I probably haven't listened to the Boss since 2003 or so. I used to sometimes play a CD when I was online, but the CD drive

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Journals:#58 = "As Long as You Live, Live!" (Jan-Feb 2006; 354pp)#59 = "Along a Winding Road" (March 2006; 192pp)#60 = "Found Passions" (March-April 2006; 208pp)#61 = "Song of Happiness" (April-May-June 2006; 401pp)#62 = "Metamorphosis" (June-July 2006; 192pp)#63 = "Dreaming in Reality" (July-August 2006; 300pp)#64 = "A Deliberate Life" (Sept-Oct 2006; 384pp)#65 = "Gossamer Strands Everlasting" (

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(read last year's entry; survey originally from an Yahoo e-list)> What are your resolutions/good intentions for the New Year?I have several. I will write about them in a separate entry.> What happened in your life that you never expected to happen?My depression seemed to lift.> What is one thing you did that you have never done before?I really didn't do anything that I haven't done before, except

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Merry Christmas to all my readers. I hope you are enjoying your holidays! Thanks for reading my blog!Here's what I got from Santa:Postsecret's book, "My Secret"buttercream-scented Yankee Candle tea lightsBath and Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar lotion and body washthe movies "Underworld" and "Underworld: Evolution"1 lb. of Jelly Bellys2 chocolate orangesSanta must have decided that I was a good

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Back in the day, up until the age of six or seven, my family purchased a real tree to decorate at Christmastime. I remember quite clearly how the chosen tree would have to be propped in a corner, and we were always told, "GET AWAY FROM THERE! YOU'LL KNOCK IT OVER!!!"I spent my time gazing at the multicolored lights from afar.I also remember covering the tree in lots of silver tinsel. Mom hated it

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In the last post, I discussed interior and exterior holiday decorating. But what is my favorite decoration, you ask?When I was growing up, there were several ornaments I loved to be the one to hang on the tree. For instance, when I was 11 or 12 years old, I bought my parents an ornament; it was two doves with a red heart in between them. The ornament was glass, and something I had purchased with

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When we first got married, back in the ancient year of 1997, DH and I were excited to be spending our first Christmas together in our first apartment. We went to Wal-Mart and bought a 6-ft. artificial tree. We didn't have any decorations for the tree, so we bought a few ornaments, too. It was fun putting it together, and then putting all the ornaments and lights on it. I also put up my tiny

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Once upon a time there was a little girl, about ten or twelve years old. She was so excited that Christmas Eve night that she had a hard time falling asleep. Santa wouldn't come down the chimney until the little girl was asleep. (Yes, I believed in Santa for years and years and years and am STILL disappointed that Santa is part of the Spirit of Christmas.) But anyway, she somehow managed to fall

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I don't cook. As DH says, I can hardly boil water (which is untrue by the way). But I do like to bake. Around the holidays, I usually choose a new recipe to try out. In the past, I have made gingerbread, mint chocolate layer candy, and oatmeal cookies. This year, I found a recipe in a Taste of Home magazine insert for iced gingerbread cookies.I decided that it would be fun for DD and I to make

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This is the first entry for the Holidailies challenge to write a full month of blog entries for December.Thank Blogger for backdating!Today, I took a snow day because the roads were awful. Visibility was poor, and in some areas, ice knocked down power lines. It was the first snowstorm of the season.The first signs of the holiday season are probably the commercials on tv, advertising gifts that

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Tell me, how long does it take you to scrape a nice thick layer of ice off your car?It took me about ten minutes this evening before I could get the windshield cleared off well enough to be able to head home from work. Thankfully, the roads weren't too icy yet. Yesterday at this time, it was still about 60 degrees. Now, it's somewhere below 30 degrees. Brrrr.I am not ready for this cold stuff--

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The weather has been extremely mild since about the middle of last week, with temperatures in the 60s. However, apparently sometime tomorrow, the weather will be turning wild and wacky, with Old Man Winter plotting to dump 6-12 inches of snow on some areas around here. Temperatures will plunge, with highs in the 30s, and lows in the teens.Wahoo.We were planning on going out this weekend, maybe to

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Well, the kid's tooth finally came out today while she was at school. She said that she worked it back and forth until it finally came out. I'm certainly glad it's over for the moment. I told her yesterday I didn't want to deal with a major mental meltdown over every single tooth that gets loose.I forgot to take my journal along with me today. I felt naked without it. Somehow, I had set it down

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DD has had a second loose tooth for several weeks now. This morning, it was hanging by a thread. Did she pull it out? Did she let us help her pull it out? No. She proceeded to throw a fit for approximately 15 minutes. My personal favorite part was when she screamed "help, help!" when DH was trying to see how loose it was.We were all in tears.Sigh.By the time I got home from work, the loose tooth

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Well, as you can see by the little sticky post dated Nov. 30, I am an official Nanowrimo winner, with 55,058 words, as verified by the verifier thingy on the website.Yay!!! I have worked so hard to get to that point. My story is even completed, not just 50,000 words. Sure, it needs a heck of a lot of work, but the important part is that I have a rough draft of something that could be shaped into

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Not too busy out there today. I was able to get around without too much hassle. I got through the lines quickly. I was able to find decent parking spaces wherever I went. I even got home by 1pm. Yay.In the evening, we rented and watched two movies: "Over the Hedge" and "The DaVinci Code." "OtH" was a cute animated film about a group of foraging wild animals who wake up from hibernation to find

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Well, the kid seemed better today, after feeling worse yesterday. We had nice weather on Thanksgiving Day, with temperatures in the 60s, and so DD spent all afternoon playing outside at my mom's house with her cousins.I think she was worn out, but we still had another family gathering to attend. She tried to doze on the couch, but with all the people around talking and laughing, it was too noisy.

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Thirteen Reasons I like Thanksgivingthe turkey dinner with all the trimmingsday off from workfamily time with DD & DHpumpkin pie and Cool Whipfeeling thankful when I return home that I have this life rather than someone else'sstart of the holiday seasonfour-day weekenda chance to reflect on my blessingsgetting caught up with relatives' livesa day to kick back and relax and not worry about the

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It's Wednesday, and I was so anxious all day for the workday to end so I could start my four-day weekend. Last year, my sister and I went shopping on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, but I know I won't be doing that this year.DD is sick with some sort of plague--again--and so she needs to rest. She should have stayed home from school today, because she said she felt awful and was

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Looks like a lot of people have dropped out, while cruising the Nano forum postings. People on the forums started off at a tremendous pace, much like I have done throughout the beginning of Nanowrimo, but it seems like once they learned how doing 4,000 or 5,000 words per day caused them to burn out, they quit writing.I also read posts from people who described how their lives were interfering. I

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Couldn't post. Didn't feel like writing. Plan on going to bed early. Still have 3000+ words to go before I'm done with Nano. More tomorrow.

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The Crazies arrived today. I woke up tired, exhausted, in pain, and totally out of sorts. And the day just got worse. It was my mom's birthday and when I tried to call her, at 9 a.m. no less, there was no answer. I couldn't figure out where she might be, other than maybe at work, so I tried her workplace, and it wasn't open yet, so there was no answer there. I took a shower and while trying to

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I guess I wrote so much yesterday that today kind of stalled out. I still managed to crank out 1,110 words, which puts me over the 46,000 mark. I almost wasn't going to bother, but the more I sat on the couch and vegged out, the more disappointed I knew I would be if I didn't at least make an attempt. I then decided that the attempt had to be at least 1,000 words. So I typed--on my story, too!--

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Took the day off today to have a break and also to take DD to school and pick her up. I wrote a little over 4,000 words in 3-ish hours (wrote from 9:30-11 and from 1-2:45), and have surpassed the 45,000 mark. Yay me! Sometime this weekend, I will have reached the 50,000 word count for Nanowrimo. My story may not be finished, but I will try to get it complete by the end of the weekend, even if it

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Thirteen Reasons I'm Tired Todaycold, wet, grey rainy daykid was up in the night, afraid of high winds; I never did get back to sleep.long day at workstayed up until nearly 2a.m. on early Tuesday morning finishing "The Husband," a 400-page book by Dean R. Koontz about a guy whose wife is kidnapped (I wanted to find out how it was going to end!), that was two weeks overdue at the librarylong daily

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Happy 600th Post to me!Thanks for reading!

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Wow. No "Lost" tonight. I hardly knew what to do with myself. Instead of watching "Lost," I decided to work on my NaNo, but I seem to have come to a plateau. The initial excitement of getting started is wearing thin. I have a little over 40,000 words and there are still two weeks left to write! I think that I will get much closer to the end of my story by the weekend, since I've been writing

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Last night, I ended up quite resistant to writing, so I ended up rambling on and on just to make 1,667 words so that I could log off the computer and go write in my journal instead.Speaking of journals, I love to look at some of the ones for sale on ebay. I really like the leather ones. But let me pause for a moment and talk about descriptions:Number one, I want the measurements to be standard,

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So I was putting DD to bed just a few minutes ago, and I came back downstairs to clean up the supper dishes and things, and I heard the Planters Peanut commercials, with the baby Mr. Peanut and Christmases past, with the song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," as the theme.I could hardly believe it. I walked into the living room to look, and yes, it was *that* commercial. It's November

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I'm excited the way my story is coming together. The writing finally feels less forced; all the pushing on through to the other side (aka typing no matter what the resistance is) has really been helping. I've been able to write a little over 8,000 words this weekend, breaking up the writing. I can generally push through 2,000 words in two hours, so what I did yesterday and today was write for a

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Very productive day today. I made 20 artist trading cards; I'll try to scan some later. Even DD made one, with my help.I wrote approximately 4000 words on my Nanowrimo story, bringing my total up to a little over 30,000. That means there are only 20,000 more words to go. Yay me. Tomorrow I'll try to do another 4000. What I did was write in two bouts today, from 12 to 2 and from about 7:30 to 9:30

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Jack Palance died today of natural causes. He was 87. Seems like he was 87 back in the 1980s when he was hosting "Ripley's Believe it or Not." I always liked him in that series. He freaked me out, actually. He seemed scary, and that persona went quite well with some of the topics of discussion on that show. I watched him win his ("gimme") Oscar for his role in "City Slickers," and the following

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Thirteen things to do onlineWrite a blog entry.Read blogs.Read the news.Watch tv shows you missed.Play games.Search topics on things you've always wanted to know more about.Shop.Email old friends.Instant message other friends.Get stuck reading and answering questions on Ask Metafilter.Read about your favorite sports team.Look up weather forecasts.Pursue creative endeavors. Get the Thursday

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Hit it tonight, writing 3057 words. Yay me. I finally finished that atrocious chapter four, in which the main characters get it on. I realized earlier today that the reason it took me like 8,000 words for that chapter was because I was avoiding writing the "jumping into bed after one meeting, especially since male got hit by female's car" scene. But I got through it, since DD had a Brownie scout

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Way to go, me! I am up to 17,425, well surpassing last year's grand total of somewhere around 13,000. Here is a short excerpt of Chapter 4, which is turning out to be REALLY long.Celia laughed."You are so pretty when you laugh," he said, looking at her intensely."Now you are hitting on me," she replied. "I think I'd better just sit over here.""Oh, come on. You know you want to." He grinned

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I don't like sports. I was forced to be in track and basketball in junior high, and I hated them both. I wasn't good at any kind of athletics. I used to think that most people who watch sports must have nothing better to do.But now I find myself watching "PTI" (Pardon the Interruption) every day at 4:30pm on ESPN. (We watch it because it's just about the only interesting thing on at that time of

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Yet another evangelical Xtian pastor, supposedly (at least formerly) one of the most influential pastors in the entire United States, with the ear of the prez, was brought low this week. He was fired today by the board of directors that oversee his church. Just as former influential preachers like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, this guy is alleged to have committed some "moral indiscretions."I

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Let me just tell you about my day.It started out pretty good. DD got up early, but that was okay. I spent some time writing in my paper journal; then I took a shower. I still had to go shopping for a baby gift before that baby shower this afternoon. So DD & I got ready and went uptown to get the stuff for the gift. (I bought a blanket, some socks, a rattle, spoons, and a plastic wipeable bib.)

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Resistance to the blank page is strong this evening. I sit here watching the old "The Longest Yard," starring Burt Reynolds, with half my attention; the other half of my attention is on this entry. Wonder how much I will be able to get done? The dishwasher is washing a load of dishes. All the toys and junk on the living room floor needs to be picked up. I'll get around to it--eventually.Tomorrow,

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Thirteen Reasons Why My Hands Feel like jellyWrote 3335 words last night (not counting 300+ for a blog post)Wrote 3107 words tonight (not counting 400+ for a blog post)Moused all day at workToo much clicking with the mouse playing Destructomatch IIWrote about five or six journal pages last nightThrew the hard rubber ball for the dog to retrieve for about a half hourCarried a huge load of laundry

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I have been waiting all day to be able to sit down at the keyboard, but now that I'm here, my mind has gone blank. Isn't that how it always goes?I managed to write my first chapter last night on my NaNo work-in-progress. Yes, even through "Bones" and "Lost," I wrote 3335 words. Not bad for a first day's work. It took approximately three hours of almost constant typing. Creating is hard work. I

casshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10202121030981580666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3155225.post-1162440589584031262006-11-01T22:07:00.000-06:002006-11-01T22:09:49.626-06:00

Wow. November first already. Where has the time gone? The weather sure does reflect November. It feels like about 27 degrees out there tonight. I let the dogs out earlier, and the sky was clear; the moon is nearly full. They rambled around the yard, while I stood at the door and froze my butt off. :)If only that were really possible! Hehe.This month is the start of a new phase in my life. Last

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I will...write every day, at least 1,667 words per day, even if I'm depressed, premenstrual, hating the world, feeling suicidal, ready to jump out the window, or prefer to sleep 24/7. The Well of Self-Pity will NOT suck me dry this year.I will not...spend too much time dwelling in self-pity instead of writing, doing dishes, doing the laundry, or sleeping instead of writing.I will...like my story

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Thirteen Reasons Why I Didn't TT last weekI forgot until it was too late.The home PC was in the shop until Thursday last week.Watched a couple of moviesFended off waves of conquering armies that arrived on the Emotional Express (aka PMS)Disappeared into the Well of Self-PityTook a napWent to the library and checked out even more booksHad an existential crisis (which is still unresolved)Wasted

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HowManyOfMe.comThere is:1person with my namein the U.S.A.How many have your name?(Don't know how accurate it is; I tested my daughter's name and it said there were 0 people with that name, and when testing my hub's name, it got 6 matches.)

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NaBloPoMo, for those who aren't up for the challenge of Nanowrimo or are too busy with other things.

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The second movie we watched this weekend was "The Shaggy Dog," a Disney film starring Tim Allen. I remember being taken to see the original "Shaggy Dog" movie when I was about 4 or 5 years old (I think it was at a movie theatre showing older films; I'm not sure what year the movie came out). My aunt took me to see it, but when we got to the theatre, the tickets were all sold out, so we couldn't

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"Click" stars Adam Sandler as an architect who is angling for a huge promotion to partner within his architectural firm. (His boss is played by David Hasselhoff.) In the movie, Sandler never has time for his family, instead needing to work on important projects to get ahead, to give his family the life he always dreamed of as a child.So one day, he goes to Bed Bath and Beyond, looking for a

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Well, the computer guy got the computer fixed, I think. He said that the video card had somehow got deleted. What I think happened was a power surge fried both that and the modem port. He replaced the display driver and updated everything. The reason why I say the modem got fried was because he told DH that one of the ports where you can plug in the phone jack (yes, we're still on dialup) was

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It is Day Three of the ongoing Computer Saga. I feel disconnected without my internet access!Today was supposed to be about nine hours of football watching with DH, but instead, he was exhausted from his outing with DD yesterday to the Pumpkin Patch.While I was gone with my mom and my sister, DH took DD to a local pumpkin patch to buy a few pumpkins to carve for Halloween. He told me that they

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