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Chris is the man I met online in 1995, fell in love with, ran away to Rhode Island with in 1998, and with whom I share a home and two four-legged "children" today. He was born and grew up here in the tiny state, in the very town we came back to back in '98, and still live in to this day. He's the assistant manager of information services for the local public school department, and spends his free time playing poker, golf, and video games. He's also an avid fan of the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots. All of the entries which mention him are below.
Mon 04/26/2010 4:23 PM
I occasionally use my state's paratransit program to get home from work when Chris has to work late or otherwise can't be there to take me home. A few weeks ago I called to schedule a ride after not having used it in a couple of years, and discovered two things...
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Fri 04/23/2010 3:56 PM
We bought our first brand new living room set back in 2001, a year after we moved into our first apartment. I remember what a frustrating process it was, finding something we both liked which would fit into our existing color scheme, which we were not interested in changing...
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Thu 04/22/2010 11:15 AM
It's time to focus on getting healthy again. I've let myself go for too long, and there is no excuse except that restricting myself all the time seems to slowly drive me to a huge rebellion like the one I've been on for the past eight months or so...
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Tue 04/20/2010 11:42 AM
Not only do I wish I had more time off, having the money to afford a real vacation would be nice, too. I wish I could take a whole month off with a magical unlimited vacation budget...
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Mon 04/12/2010 9:55 AM
For quite some time now it has been my plan to replace my three year old original iPhone model when this year's model comes out. For the past few months Chris and I have been in an ongoing debate, as he has somehow convinced himself that Apple is not releasing a new model this year...
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Thu 04/08/2010 2:57 PM
Who'd have thought that less than two weeks after I mentioned the record-breaking flood stage of the river near my house, it would flood again and break even more records? This time, instead of stopping across the street from the complex, it came all the way to our side of the street and into the property entrance...
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Fri 02/12/2010 11:31 AM
A couple of weeks ago we took a day trip to Groton, Connecticut to my former coworker Norm's house. The primary purpose of the trip was to help Norm set up his new business computer, but we also brought Brooskey and Vixen along to play with his two Australian Shepherds, Summer and Merlin...
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Fri 02/05/2010 4:01 PM
Winter. My most hated time of year. Specifically, that long stretch of winter after the fun of the holidays is gone, until it's possible to comfortably wear short sleeves outside again...
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Wed 01/13/2010 3:50 PM
I'm again amused by how things change in just a few short years. Here are some more examples...
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Fri 01/08/2010 11:27 AM
It's kind of fun to dig back in my blog and see how things have changed over time. For example, this meme I did about five years ago, where one is supposed to go through the alphabet and see what comes up first in their web browser's auto complete list for each letter...
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Thu 12/31/2009 5:18 PM
Well, here it is, my last post of 2009. It wasn't an extremely eventful year, but there were a few highlights...
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Mon 12/28/2009 3:38 PM
Today's misery aside, I had a pretty awesome Christmas. I totaled up $330 in cash and gift cards toward my new camera - the one thing I wanted this year...
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Wed 12/16/2009 4:39 PM
I love my man for so many reasons, but I'd be lying if I said his awesome talent in the kitchen wasn't one of them. Though we own many cookbooks, they don't come off the shelf very often, because the best meals he makes are not those from a recipe followed to the letter...
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Mon 10/26/2009 2:54 PM
The past few weekends have been pretty uneventful, but we did attend the annual Nelson Halloween Party on Friday night. This is the same party to which we went as Peter & Lois Griffin last year...
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Wed 10/14/2009 11:28 AM
Here's a lovely Halloween dance video for you to enjoy!
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Mon 09/28/2009 1:37 PM
Last week was rough on Brooskey and Vixen; we weren't home much. By Saturday they, Brooskey especially, were unbearably hyper and anxious...
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Fri 09/25/2009 3:34 PM
It's been a busy week in terms of after-work activities, and all I wanted to do yesterday was go home and plop in front of the TV for several hours of fall season premieres. We had to meet a friend of Chris' first to try to diagnose a misbehaving laptop...
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Wed 09/23/2009 10:01 AM
The other night Chris and I watched I Love You, Man, a comedy about a guy who realizes after getting engaged that he has no real close friends who would qualify as best man material, and he has to set out to find such a friend...
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Tue 09/22/2009 10:31 AM
I shot this a couple of weeks ago but it's taken a while to get the tools I needed to edit it (I used Chris' iPhone 3GS, and even though I shot it in landscape mode, it came out in...
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Mon 09/14/2009 11:18 AM
I've been paying a friend to help me with grocery shopping and cleaning at home on Tuesday nights when Chris is playing poker...
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Tue 07/28/2009 4:19 PM
The biggest weekend of the summer is over, and Joe & Sandra have finally tied the knot! It was an awesome weekend, starting with the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on Saturday, the big event on Sunday, and even our recovery day off from work yesterday (Monday)...
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Thu 07/23/2009 4:24 PM
Over at the GimpGirl Community on LiveJournal, a member asked for opinions on all of the "politically correct" language being used to describe us - specifically, the trend of "person-first" language, in which we are to say "person with a disability" or "person who is blind (or deaf)" rather than "disabled person" or "blind (deaf) person", because putting the person before the disability is somehow less offensive to us "people with disabilities"...
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Mon 07/13/2009 3:58 PM
The morning of the 4th (my actual birthday), we woke up early to try to catch the little neighborhood Fourth of July parade in my boss' neighborhood. When we realized we were an hour early (I blame my boss for that), we decided to skip it and take the dogs to the dog park instead...
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Thu 06/25/2009 2:23 PM
Remember how I was saying I would probably be whining about how jealous I am within a week of Chris getting his iPhone 3GS (yes, Apple has officially removed the space from the spelling)? Well, I'm not...
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Mon 06/15/2009 5:46 PM
My Eeyore case for my iPhone has seen better days - the picture of Eeyore has started to rub off of the raised area where the belt clip (which I don't use) is supposed to attach. I was starting to feel like it was time for something new, anyway, so I ordered a couple of new snap-on cases...
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Tue 05/26/2009 4:21 PM
This Memorial Day weekend kicked off our insanely busy summer with a bachelorette party, two bachelor parties, a holiday cookout, and the first of three weddings we're attending this year. Let me just say it would be a miracle if I was even just barely functional today, but I'm actually supercharged!
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Mon 05/18/2009 4:20 PM
I've just finished up my last "free" weekend for the next couple of months. With the schedule we've got this summer, it's going to be really difficult to get anything done, so this weekend we tried to accomplish as much as possible...
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Fri 05/15/2009 3:53 PM
Maybe I've just been living under a rock, but it seems to me like the US Postal Service didn't do much to publicize this latest postage increase. It was by pure dumb luck that I found out about it...
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Mon 04/27/2009 3:51 PM
We had a gorgeous weekend here in New England, though it did start out a little bit chillier than expected. We took advantage of the beautiful, sunny weather, and took Brooskey and Vixen to the dog park Saturday morning. Unlike...
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Tue 04/21/2009 3:16 PM
Just about everyone shops online these days. I do, for several reasons: 1) it saves me waiting for someone to be available to take me to a store Chris doesn't like to shop at; 2) it allows me to shop privately for gifts and surprise purchases; 3) it's easier to find things online when I don't know where to start looking; and 4) sometimes what I need isn't in stock in the local stores...
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Tue 03/24/2009 11:55 AM
Despite all of the frustration, I didn't have a completely unsuccessful weekend. What I failed to mention yesterday is that I also did some more dress shopping...
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Mon 03/23/2009 12:59 PM
This was supposed to be a weekend of getting things done, but instead it was a weekend of me wanting to strangle someone...
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Wed 03/18/2009 2:40 PM
This past Sunday we had our first dinner guests in over a year. Brooskey's behavior was so atrocious the last time we tried to have company over, that we were too embarrassed to try it again...
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Tue 03/17/2009 3:10 PM
I'm attending three weddings this year, so I need to find some new dresses. I always have a really hard time finding dresses that work for me and are flattering, and usually end up running out of time and settling for some old frumpy church lady dress...
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Fri 03/13/2009 11:52 AM
I'm joining Ed today in answering these five completely random yet oddly related questions about myself...
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Thu 03/12/2009 3:52 PM
Chris found this for me this morning: There is a pair of nine-week-old Chihuahua puppies here in Rhode Island who were born without front legs. They were taken in by an organization called Just A Touch Rescue, and they are receiving physical therapy to teach them how to manage life on two legs...
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Fri 03/06/2009 3:14 PM
I don't know what, but something sparked my metabolism this past week. I lost three pounds! I can't help wondering how much more I would have lost if I had been a little bit better with my workouts, as I didn't exercise as often as I had wanted to...
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Thu 02/26/2009 10:49 AM
Nearly twelve years ago, my friend Timory Hyde was killed when she and a friend fell from a third story window during a party on (but not for) her twenty-third birthday...
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Fri 02/20/2009 3:33 PM
I went to see my doctor the other day, and he put me on antibiotics for this sinus thing I've been battling for far too long. I'm always loathe to take antibiotics because of all the side effects they cause, but I am grateful that I made it this far into the winter before needing them, since I'm usually on my first round by Thanksgiving...
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Tue 02/17/2009 10:43 AM
Being a mommy to two dogs gets expensive, which is why I'm entering on ConsumerQueen.com to win a $50 PETCO gift card, and doing everything possible to earn extra entries!
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Mon 02/16/2009 12:22 PM
Anyway, last week I heard my share of Valentine's Day dissent - that is, people encouraging the boycotting of Valentine's Day for various reasons. The general gripe is that it's a holiday that was invented by greeting card companies, designed to make you spend money, with no basis in religion or historical events...
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Wed 02/11/2009 11:33 AM
I e-filed my own return the day that the W-2s came in at work - two days before the IRS even started processing them. I had my federal refund in my account on January 30...
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Tue 02/10/2009 11:18 AM
Here's a question posed by Dallas Catering company JimLeeEvents: What are your favorite party cocktails and appetizers?
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Fri 02/06/2009 3:33 PM
Today is Chris' birthday, and since he took the day off from work and has been hanging out with the dogs all day, I knew we would probably be going to our favorite haunt for lunch rather than him coming all the way from home to pick me up and drive all the way back home again...
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Tue 02/03/2009 3:02 PM
After taking a nap inside my fleece hoodie last night (yes, while I was wearing it), Vixen went over to Chris to ask for her "fratchies". And I guess I should explain this technical term...
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Mon 02/02/2009 3:21 PM
Commenter Ricky asked for my feelings on the Lose It! iPhone application now that I have been using it for a while, so I thought I should post an updated review. If you don't remember, this is the app I am using to track my calorie intake as I work to lose the weight I put back on in 2008...
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Wed 01/28/2009 2:55 PM
The other night, Brooskey overindulged on a "Healthy Edibles" bone by Nylabone. Edible, yes, but I don't think they intend for the dog to eat the whole thing in five minutes...
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Thu 01/22/2009 2:45 PM
Today I'm participating in 3x Thursday, and this week's theme is Down Time...
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Wed 01/21/2009 10:49 AM
Brooskey is almost eighteen months old. He has made some huge strides in growing up over the past couple of weeks, and we're incredibly proud of him...
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Mon 01/19/2009 11:43 AM
I was unusually loud and opinionated last week, so this week I'm going to try to keep it a bit lighter. I thought I would seek out some memes I've never participated in before...
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Mon 01/05/2009 4:14 PM
I'm reading back through my 2008 entries with the intention of writing a recap of the past year of my life, and immediately with the first entry on January 8, I'm cracking up at the similarities to my situation right now...
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Wed 12/31/2008 10:26 AM
I have so much to blog about but still so little time! For now, here's the rundown of what I got for Christmas (in roughly the order I opened them)...
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Tue 12/23/2008 9:40 PM
I talk about Chris a lot, but I haven't ever told you all that much about him. So how about I borrow this hubby meme from Tina?
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Mon 12/22/2008 4:54 PM
Christmas is almost here, and things are getting busy, so I may not be able to post as regularly over the next week or so (you already saw evidence of this last week). And I'm sorry that all of my entries as of late have just been personal updates and not thought-provoking spoutings of my unpopular opinions...
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Thu 12/11/2008 3:46 PM
Sorry to bore you with another meme (yeah right, according to my stats you love them!). Angela at mommy bytes combined an e-mail meme with similar questions she found on four other blogs into a massive four things meme...
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Wed 12/10/2008 2:51 PM
Since I can't afford to buy gifts for everyone in my family this Christmas, I've decided I will at least send a Christmas bouquet or centerpiece to my Mom's house. Or maybe a Christmas gift basket from 1-800-Flowers...
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Mon 12/08/2008 11:49 AM
This is the weather conditions when I got to work this morning. It's FREAKING COLD...
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Fri 12/05/2008 1:27 PM
I had quite the crappy night last night. It started out all right... right after work we went over to our favorite hangout and ate dinner...
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Fri 11/21/2008 2:36 PM
Well okay, I'm starting to feel the Christmas spirit just a little bit...
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Thu 11/20/2008 4:03 PM
Since I'm short on post ideas, I thought I'd do a quick run-down of the highlights of the past week (not guaranteed to be interesting, amusing, or otherwise worth reading). I've used my Twitter stream to jog my memory...
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Wed 11/19/2008 11:33 AM
For some reason all the stores seem to be starting the Black Friday madness early this year. Instead of reducing prices for Christmas shopping starting the day after Thanksgiving, many of them started as early as the first of November.
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Tue 11/18/2008 11:35 AM
My eye exam yesterday confirmed my suspicions. I don't have a severe vision problem; no nearsightedness or farsightedness. But I do have astigmatism...
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Tue 11/11/2008 10:23 PM
Next Monday I am going to see Chris' friend Jeff the eye doctor. I've been struggling with really bad migraines for several weeks now, and something tells me it's vision-related...
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Wed 11/05/2008 1:22 PM
When we received our invitation to a Halloween costume party last month, I had no clue what to dress up as. When I was young my mom would usually make my costume, or piece it together from items bought at thrift stores...
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Tue 11/04/2008 4:44 PM
I took a couple of vacation days and turned this past weekend into a four-day one. It was great to have a couple of much needed extra days off, but I still did not want to go to work this morning...
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Thu 10/30/2008 4:59 PM
As my regular readers know, I've been without a computer at home for three weeks. But the symptoms actually began at least a month earlier - symptoms which I mistakenly attributed to overheating at the time...
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Mon 10/27/2008 3:52 PM
I did it. I applied color to my hair for the first time ever in my life. Yes, it was just spray-in color and I washed it out as soon as I got home from the Halloween party...
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Wed 10/22/2008 3:06 PM
Tina from MummifiedTimesFive has given me the "I Love Your Blog" award! Thank you, Tina! The rules say that I'm supposed to pass the award on to seven blogs that I love, so in no particular order, here they are...
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Mon 10/20/2008 4:04 PM
My poor, sick computer developed a new symptom late last week: it started repeatedly powering itself on. We had plugged it back in after Chris tried applying new heatsink compound to the CPU aong with a few other tweaks, to see if any of it had made a difference...
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Fri 10/17/2008 10:52 AM
Chris and I have come up with a great costume idea for a Halloween party we're attending next weekend. And no, I'm not revealing what it is - you'll have to wait for the photos...
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Mon 10/13/2008 5:31 PM
Friday evening after work I turned on my home computer to do a few things. Shortly after booting up, it shut itself down, never to turn on again. We think it was the motherboard that gave up the ghost. Fortunately...
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Wed 10/08/2008 9:50 AM
I finally got Vixen on video growling at the squeaky football. It wasn't as funny as the first time when her growls were turning into whines of frustration, but I think it's still pretty darn cute...
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Mon 10/06/2008 2:24 PM
The truth is, most people go to work sick because their employers give them no other choice. Most of us can't afford to lose any of our pay...
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Wed 10/01/2008 12:04 PM
Today is Vixen's first birthday! It's hard to believe she's a year old already, especially since she's only been with us for eight months...
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Tue 09/30/2008 12:26 PM
I'm a big fan of VistaPrint. I got some business cards and refrigerator magnets from them back when I had my attempted eBay business, and they were surprisingly good quality for the price I paid...
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Thu 09/18/2008 1:21 PM
Poor Chris has had a rough couple of weeks. Two weekends ago he started having some really bad back pain. By Friday he hadn't had much relief so he decided to go see a chiropractor for the first time ever...
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Wed 09/17/2008 3:11 PM
Something I'm quickly finding out as I explore affiliate marketing as a way to make money online is that I am not a natural born salesperson like some people are. Some people, like Chris, seem to have a salesperson gene...
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Tue 09/16/2008 12:01 PM
Here it is, our brand new set of wheels! Okay, not brand new... instead of the 2008 model we went with a slightly used 2007 Altima, which made it a lot easier to get down to the payment we wanted, especially since the dealership that had this one gave us $2,200 more for the trade-in than the first place was willing to give...
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Mon 09/15/2008 1:46 PM
I haven't done any silly posts in a while, and I could use some silliness in my life right now, so I'm borrowing this A-Z meme from Krississippi...
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Fri 09/12/2008 3:34 PM
Every year I have a round of two or three sinus infections in a row. Usually I get the first one in mid-to-late November, right before Thanksgiving...
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Thu 09/11/2008 4:42 PM
Well, Chris may be giving up his big manly vehicle. He wanted a Pathfinder for so long and was so enamored with it when he got it that I didn't think he'd ever consider going back to a "girly car"...
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Wed 08/27/2008 1:03 PM
Remember how I mentioned that I'm always cold, but if I turn up the thermostat even one degree, I get hot? Not to mention how annoying it must be to others that I'm constantly changing the temperature on them...
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Mon 08/18/2008 1:57 PM
For the last few weeks I've been dealing with this off-and-on stiff and painful neck. It started right about the time we went to see The Dark Knight, so at first I thought it was just from looking up at the big screen for so long...
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Wed 08/13/2008 4:37 PM
For those of you with kids in school, one of these label makers could be helpful with those back-to-school preparations as well. You could use it to label what belongs to who, if you have bought the same school supplies for more than one child (or you just don't want their classmates swiping their stuff!)...
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Mon 08/04/2008 12:48 PM
Of course we weren't going to let a little weather ruin our day. Our seats and clothes all dried eventually, and when the sun came out afterwards I actually needed my sunglasses...
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Thu 07/31/2008 9:34 PM
Here in Rhode Island, paratransit service comes with a lot of rules. You must schedule your ride at least a day in advance - no spontaneously deciding you want to go somewhere... yet this is considered equivalent to regular public transit...
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Tue 07/29/2008 9:27 AM
Lo and behold, I find out that Enkay Blog along with Market Leverage is holding a contest in which one of the prizes is an Asus EEE PC laptop! You can also win a $50 AmEx gift card or one of three USB pen drives...
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Thu 07/24/2008 12:53 PM
I finally managed to grab the fireworks photos off of Chris' iPhone from the night of the Fourth out on Mr. Ping's boat. I have to say, for having been taken with a camera phone with no fancy settings available, they are some pretty decent fireworks shots...
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Wed 07/16/2008 8:54 PM
The most awaited feature of the iPhone 2.0 software was of course the App Store. I spent the weekend browsing the free applications and downloaded my share...
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Tue 07/15/2008 8:37 PM
Then Josh Blue took the stage, and it was non-stop roaring laughter from that point on. Our faces literally hurt by the time it was over...
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Fri 07/11/2008 4:54 PM
Thankfully, another week is over. I'm not completely caught up at work from my vacation last week, but I'm getting there. I'd probably be further along if I hadn't spent half of this week undoing everything the oh-so-helpful temp did in my absence...
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Tue 07/08/2008 8:54 PM
DisabilityNation recently reported that according to a survey, one in five gamers is disabled. You can count me as one of them...
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Mon 07/07/2008 8:25 PM
You can rest assured that I will never be one of those women who lies about her age. I will always be exactly the age I say I am, unless of course I get senile and lose count...
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Mon 06/23/2008 5:22 PM
I can't smell it either when I shove my nose into it. It's just this whiff I catch every so often when I'm wearing it...
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Fri 06/20/2008 6:11 PM
Maybe you've forgotten, Netflix, but you have competition now. Being that some of your competitors already have an edge over you (in-store returns and exchanges at Blockbuster, anyone?), you need to make sure you have something the others don't...
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Tue 06/10/2008 12:36 PM
We talked for a few hours, and had a ton of things in common. And then, that's when the part of the conversation happened that made my jaw hit the floor...
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Mon 06/02/2008 5:57 PM
I averaged the scores for the two parts, and then added bonus points for anyone who got the last two questions right. Those questions were by far the hardest, since they dealt with my political opinions, which I do not often discuss publicly...
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Wed 05/28/2008 9:07 PM
No, Chris and I are not in the videos because we were the ones shooting them. But I assure you, we were right in there with all the rest of the drunks...
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Tue 05/27/2008 8:45 PM
The whole weekend was a nice little mini-vacation, and the first time in a long time that I've felt like I've had a real break. I think I can handle a month of work...
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Wed 05/21/2008 9:41 PM
But for those of you who need a new phone and can't afford the initial expense of an iPhone, there are cheap and even free AT&T cell phones. Or for Sprint users, how about a free Samsung Instinct?
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Thu 05/15/2008 6:55 PM
What are some simple things that satisfy you? Here are some of mine...
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Mon 05/12/2008 8:07 PM
Just a few observations on the iPhone so far. My only complaints, aside from missing features which will hopefully be enabled in future software updates, have to do with the on-screen keyboard...
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Mon 05/05/2008 5:38 PM
AT&T has told me that the switch-over should take place next Monday. I was actually a little bit surprised that they didn't assign a temporary number just so I could receive calls in the meantime...
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Mon 04/28/2008 6:31 PM
Before long, Vixen had taken over the small dog side of the park, and was having a blast with all of the other dogs. She even found a Yorkie puppy about her size to chase around...
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Fri 03/14/2008 6:04 PM
The two of them are getting along really well, though there are still a few arguments a day, but being that they are both very strong-willed, that may always be the case. Brooskey really loves to play with Vixen, but still hasn't quite figured out how much is too much for her...
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Tue 02/26/2008 10:28 PM
It was toward the end of the shot that they panned past us, so it very well may get edited out when the episode airs, but you never know. It is expected to air sometime in May, and if I know ahead of time I will give everyone a heads up...
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Wed 02/13/2008 7:16 PM
With his gift I achieved my goal: to surprise him with something he'd never expect from me. I owe some credit to his best friend Joe for the idea...
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Tue 02/05/2008 7:27 PM
She's a little kissing machine and washes all three of our faces thoroughly every day. Her absolute favorite place to be is in my lap, and I'm more than happy to accommodate...
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Thu 01/10/2008 6:12 PM
This past year was quite the year for me. It brought some of the highest and some of the lowest points of my life so far...
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Tue 01/08/2008 9:23 PM
A little over an hour and it was done. So again, seems a little strange that a plain no-frills file manager had no trouble copying what a drive imaging product could not, but I just don't know where the fault really lies...
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Sat 12/22/2007 12:34 AM
When I was a kid we used to get into our pajamas after dinner on Christmas Eve, and go for a drive to look at Christmas lights before going back home to open our one gift...
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Thu 12/13/2007 11:32 AM
Oh yeah, and it's still not decorated. Turns out it's even more difficult to find time to decorate a tree with a puppy, than it is to wrap gifts...
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Mon 11/19/2007 3:04 PM
I have actually come up with a few things this year that I really do need and/or want, as opposed to those cool items I see that I would love to have but would never buy myself. If you're curious what I'm asking for, you can check out my gift registry...
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Fri 10/26/2007 4:31 PM
He'll be going for his second vet visit and second set of puppy shots next Friday. It will be interesting to see just how much weight he's gained...
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Mon 10/22/2007 11:58 AM
We've been online friends for many years, but despite living relatively close to each other (she's a New Yorker), as compared to my distance from other people in my life, until now we'd never had occasion to see each other. But this weekend she took a mini-vacation to Providence to celebrate her birthday...
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Thu 10/18/2007 2:13 PM
After the dolphin interaction, we were pretty fatigued from all the swimming, so we decided to go ahead and get dressed, and walk around taking pictures around the park until dinnertime. We found a steel drum band playing on the beach, and there were guides scattered around the park carrying some other, non-aquatic tropical animals for guests to interact with...
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Tue 10/09/2007 2:54 PM
There are water taxis which run between Downtown Disney and the two Port Orleans resorts. And if you're in the Magic Kingdom area, you can take the monorail between the three or four resorts in that area and the Magic Kingdom park...
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Mon 10/08/2007 3:57 PM
The trip home with him went really well, all things considered. He tolerated the first two hours or so in the carrier, with a few complaints but sleeping most of the time, which is pretty impressive for a puppy this age...
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Fri 10/05/2007 12:31 PM
For the past few weeks we have been preparing for a new addition to our family. We've bought furniture and bedding, toys and supplies...
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Fri 09/28/2007 2:11 PM
Thursday we had our lunch at Le Cellier Steakhouse in Canada at Epcot (the high-demand restaurant for which we couldn't get a dinner reservation). It was easy to see why the place is so popular...
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Sat 09/22/2007 10:09 AM
The seats gently tilt to the side to simulate turning, and back to simulate speed. And just like at Mickey's PhilharMagic, there are wind and fragrance effects, too...
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Thu 09/20/2007 3:53 PM
I know there has to be a way to override that, and maybe if we had taken those free digital photography lessons that came with the camera, we'd have known how to do so...
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Mon 09/17/2007 8:54 PM
It was dazzling and mesmerizing right to the very end. And it was the first of the second type of "moment" I had a lot of while down there...
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Fri 09/14/2007 3:28 PM
Getting good photos from the safari truck proved to be a challenge, for although they encouraged taking lots of pictures and even pointed out good photo opportunities, the driver never slowed down enough to allow anyone time to do so...
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Sun 08/19/2007 11:46 AM
I absolutely cannot believe we're leaving for Florida one week from today. I thought this was going to be the longest six months of my life, and I think it was actually the shortest...
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Mon 08/13/2007 6:27 PM
Aside from the fact that it seemed to take longer than usual to wear off, I had the shakes, and the whole right side of my body (the side it was injected on) was weak and uncoordinated...
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Mon 07/30/2007 3:21 PM
This past week I reached a total weight loss of thirty-two pounds - eight pounds left to lose out of my original goal of forty. I had divided those forty pounds into five mini-goals of eight, rewarding myself after each eight pounds lost...
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Tue 07/24/2007 7:07 PM
When the weekend hit, we went into keep-busy-and-don't-think mode. We began cleaning up around the house, putting away the mounds of clean laundry that had been accumulating in the bedroom for months, and with the help of Chris' parents, finished up painting the office and got a good start on the hallway...
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Wed 07/11/2007 10:49 AM
We got to spend the day out on the water on Joe's dad's yacht, and it was awesome. The weather was gorgeous, and I was perfectly content just leaning back, closing my eyes, and letting the warm sun and the boat rock me to sleep...
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Tue 06/19/2007 11:43 AM
Chris, being fully aware of this, has taken to answering every one of my IMs today with "nah nah nah". Makes it extremely difficult to maintain my image of sanity among my coworkers...
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Fri 06/01/2007 11:27 PM
Can we say, "Never wear the same shirt to work twice in one year..."? Not to mention stocking up on supplies for some kick-ass parties!
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Wed 05/16/2007 10:52 AM
They are great meals, but they will eventually get old... not to mention how jealous I get when everyone is having a foodgasm over the shrimp and I can't have any due to my shellfish allergy...
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Tue 04/03/2007 8:14 PM
And so I've become an aunt again. I'll be flying out in just over two weeks, and can't wait to hold this precious little angel in my arms for the first time...
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Wed 02/28/2007 8:29 PM
To an outsider it may seem like I'm strangely obsessed with bathrooms. It's something that's constantly on my mind when planning whether to go out, where to go, and how long I can stay...
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Thu 02/22/2007 10:02 PM
I have a confession to make. I am a cute freak. No, that doesn't mean I'm a freak who happens to be cute (although Chris might agree with that)...
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Tue 01/23/2007 11:40 AM
And occasionally one cylindrical memory foam pillow under my right foot to keep my ankle from completely dislocating itself in my sleep...
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Mon 01/15/2007 12:46 PM
I, on the other hand, have panic attacks when I think about how much of my life is stored on my hard drives and the prospect of losing it all, plus the work involved in tweaking everything just the way I like it again...
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Wed 12/20/2006 11:08 PM
The dogs' names were Rhody and Chase. Rhody was white with a patch on his eye and looked like possibly a boxer mix, and Chase looked like a German shepherd...
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Mon 12/18/2006 11:43 PM
In our house it was tradition to leave all of the Christmas lights on, including the tree, all night on Christmas Eve. The outside lights were to guide Santa to our house, and the tree lights to allow him to see while he worked...
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Wed 11/22/2006 12:49 PM
All said and done, I'm getting two more vacation days and a $1 an hour raise retroactive to July. That's an extra $760 check next week...
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Tue 10/31/2006 6:02 PM
Nine percent of Americans claim to have been in the presence of a ghost during their lifetime...
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Wed 07/19/2006 2:10 PM
Chris drove home from his poker game in about three feet of standing water. There are unconfirmed reports of a tornado touching down right in my neighborhood. And there's a weeping willow on top of a car in the condo parking lot...
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Thu 07/13/2006 1:51 PM
After spending months having a mental crisis about when and how I should spend it, thinking I absolutely had to have a firm plan in place before scheduling the time but unable to find anything affordable to do, I finally just decided to schedule it for my birthday week...
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Thu 05/18/2006 6:48 PM
Yes, I realize now that this was probably a mistake, and opened me up for what happened next. Hindsight is 20/20...
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Tue 02/28/2006 2:43 PM
Maybe I've just been grumpy, but things like this have really been pissing me off lately...
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Sun 02/12/2006 7:20 AM
Every so often I should just force myself to post a sort of mental dump...
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Sat 11/19/2005 9:11 PM
I won't apologize for the way I feel, but should I have just kept it to myself... forever?
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Mon 01/10/2005 4:54 PM
Incidentally, with a good and dead Christmas tree and a bagless vacuum cleaner, you've got the ultimate cure for a smelly garbage can...
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Tue 12/21/2004 7:53 PM
Post something meaningful and on-topic to any of the forums - let's get some discussions going...
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Wed 12/15/2004 10:22 PM
So the choice was, spend $30-$40 on an add-on USB card and a PS/2 adapter for the keyboard, or go ahead and fork out the $100 for the new motherboard...
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Sun 12/05/2004 4:19 PM
This Christmas already promises to be better than last Christmas, which never really felt like Christmas at all...
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Mon 11/15/2004 8:52 PM
Chris was certainly thrilled about the opportunity to test out the new vehicle. In fact I think he might have willed this upon us...
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Wed 11/10/2004 3:54 PM
Little did I know when I went to bed last Tuesday night, that the next day we'd be bringing this home...
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Mon 07/05/2004 6:56 PM
We heard mention of a recent study that showed that only 7% of Americans have common sense. This concept was quickly proven...
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Mon 05/17/2004 7:07 PM
I bent over to turn the fan on, and as I turned the knob, the fan literally blew up! POOF, a bright spark, and it was dead...
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Sat 04/10/2004 2:11 AM
I would have people worry only about how they live their own lives, and stop trying to legislate how others live theirs...
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Sun 01/25/2004 12:44 AM
Okay, so when something is on sale, especially a canned item that will last forever, it makes sense to stock up. But when there are people standing right there who are obviously looking for the same item, would it kill you to leave *one* can?
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Wed 01/21/2004 7:39 PM
So how much do two friends, who've known each other for 17 years, have in common?
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Thu 01/08/2004 1:59 PM
Is a person simply supposed to use them to firmly grasp the nail and rip it from the finger/toe?
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Wed 12/24/2003 2:17 PM
Thanks to Nightowl for the idea, I decided to write about my most recent adventure in the form of a poem...
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Mon 11/24/2003 3:01 PM
This is so opposite from the Wicked Karma philosophy I've come to know, I can't even make sense of it. It's truly political correctness gone insane.
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Tue 10/28/2003 2:32 PM
Well I haven't written anything in a while. So what have I been up to?
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Sun 07/13/2003 1:46 PM
It's taken me a while to sit down, upload all my photos, and write about my summer mini-vacation, but at long last... here it is!
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Wed 06/11/2003 2:25 PM
He called the cops, and we got to sit and watch the fun from our bedroom window. It was really funny... the cop walked up and shined his flashlight in their window. Kid: "Dude, is that a cop?" Cop: "Yes! It is!"
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Mon 12/23/2002 7:13 PM
Just a quick holiday wish to the few who read this. ;o) Here's hoping whatever holiday you celebrate is/was a peaceful and joyous one...
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Wed 12/11/2002 5:12 PM
For something voluntary, this is getting way too intrusive. Not to mention deceptive - why did the letter not tell us what we were really getting into?
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