Well, I made it!!! Thirty posts in thirty days. At last, I am officially a NaBloPoMo veteran. Shouldn’t there be tickertape and balloons and fireworks and stuff? Anyone?
How about a gift certificate to Starbucks, then? I could really use a good caffeine jolt after all that mad late night posting…
Seriously, [...]
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Gerard Butler and…uh…some other people got together and made a movie. I love it already. Too bad I have to wait until December 21 to see it!
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Katie was absent from school yesterday. When I called the school secretary to let her know, she asked, so kindly, “Is she sick?”
“Um, no. Not sick. No.” Then there was this awkward pause, and after a moment I knew it was up to me to fill in the blanks.
“See, what happened is [...]
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Family gift giving. It’s a minefield. That Seinfeld calendar that you thought was so cute and trendy when you were shopping in the mall looks ridiculous on the door of your Aunt Ethel’s turn-of-the-century icebox, and even though you’ve found the perfect sweater for your cousin, Jody, you’re torn between getting it in the size [...]
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I knew I was taking a gamble, waiting so long to get my snow tires put on.
I love winter weather, but I hate winter roads.
Last night, the snow fell. And fell, and fell. This morning, I drove Paul to work, dropped Katie off at school, picked up Kelly for Bible study, and pulled [...]
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With only four days left to go, this year’s NaBloPoMo is nearly in the books. I can hardly wait to put that little “I participated in National Blog Posting Month and all I got was this sidebar logo” button on my page. Then, of course, there are the prizes. I could win anything from a [...]
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*notes from Katie tucked into my pocket or hidden under my pillow
*pumpkin flax muffins with chopped pecans
*cute black boots that go with everything and actually zip over my calves
*heat in the winter and air-conditioning in the summer
*money for groceries
*Sunday afternoon naps with football playing in the background
*my new wool coat, so toasty warm I [...]
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It’s after eleven o’clock at night, and I’ve just finished watching the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy online. Typically, I’m in a dither. “What is the deal with George and Izzy?” I ask the universe. The universe doesn’t answer, and in the next second I’m dialing up my friend, Kathy, whose [...]
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Due to both a hectic Black Friday shopping schedule (which involved getting up at 4am to go stand in line in the freezing cold for the Best Buy Doorbuster sale) and a quickly approaching evening appointment to meet some friends for the Coeur d’Alene Light Parade and fireworks, tonight’s planned blogging topic, “I’m Thankful for [...]
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I had heard of blogs, of course, but I was a little fuzzy on the details. I just knew that somewhere, “out there” in cyberspace, people were keeping online journals. I didn’t know where they were or that you could search for them or even that, unlike their RL (real life) counterparts, they [...]
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