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These are entries I've written about my life... friends, family, trips I've taken and things I've done. If it's about me, you'll find it here.
Tue 08/24/2010 4:59 PM
I've been suffering some major blogging burnout these past few months, but I am forcing myself to write something today. It will either get me back into it, or confirm that I really don't want to do it anymore...
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Wed 06/16/2010 3:02 PM
It's been a while since I've blogged, and I still don't have the time nor the inspiration for a long post, but here are a few updates...
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Fri 05/14/2010 11:42 AM
This blog has been quiet lately, because I've been spending all of my free time working on a new project. It's one of the new web sites I purchased the domains for early last year, but never really found the motivation to start seriously working on...
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Wed 05/05/2010 1:23 PM
Spring is supposed to be a season of birth, renewal, and new beginnings. But to me, it often seems more like a season of loss...
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Thu 04/29/2010 3:40 PM
Several years ago when we lived in a rented apartment, we had a mixed bag of neighbors. There were a few problem people, such as the drunk who lived behind us...
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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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Fri 04/16/2010 1:02 PM
A little over a week ago, I think for the first time since I started this blog, I was seriously considering quitting blogging for good. I was getting ready to write a post to say that I was thinking about quitting, and expressing all of the reasons why it was something I was considering, when this stupid little thing came along that ticked me off...
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Wed 04/14/2010 12:01 PM
I know I tend to grumble a lot about my job sometimes. I do realize that I'm lucky to have one, but at the same time I think it's a bad idea for us to keep laying down and letting employers use the bad economy as a free pass to treat their employees poorly...
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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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Wed 03/17/2010 2:35 PM
Okay, I owe the world an update on the happenings in my life. It's been pretty uneventful, but here are a few things...
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Thu 02/25/2010 1:38 PM
I guess it's been a little while since I've written anything! Last week I came down with a cold, and while it was nothing compared to the one I had in early December, it still had me moaning and groaning and asking for my mommy, and there were a good two days when I was unable to do much of anything other than stare off into space...
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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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Tue 01/26/2010 10:50 AM
What a bonehead I am. A few months ago while reading one of Jen's posts at Spaghetti Harvest, I decided to buy some of her soaps to give as gifts during the holidays...
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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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Mon 01/11/2010 1:29 PM
Lately when I spend time at my home computer, my hands have been getting cold and the back of my right hand even goes numb... a rather unpleasant sensation. It doesn't happen if I crank the heat up high enough, but then my computer overheats, especially if I'm playing The Sims 3...
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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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Fri 12/11/2009 4:35 PM
My current Sim family consists of a mom and a dad, a teenage daughter and two younger girls. They had outgrown their house, so the other night I set out to explore my Sim town and find an unoccupied house that could better accommodate them...
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Fri 11/06/2009 3:10 PM
I woke up Monday morning to find a gray stripe down the left side of my iPhone screen, along with some squiggly gray lines at the top. I rebooted and reset it, but the rogue pixels would not go away...
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Thu 10/29/2009 1:25 PM
Shopping for clothes is usually an extremely frustrating experience for me. Differences in the shape of my body, and in my ability to get certain items on and off independently, mean that I have to be very particular about the styles I select...
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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 10/05/2009 2:34 PM
Now that it's October I'm thinking about Halloween (and yes, even Christmas). Did you see this month's creepy confoozled.com masthead?
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Fri 10/02/2009 11:48 AM
Yesterday marked seven years since my first blog entry. In those seven years I have written 514 entries...
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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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Thu 09/24/2009 9:54 AM
Guess what. Christmas is only ninety-two days away! This year I'm following the advice of 100 Days to Christmas to get started with my preparations for the holiday nice and early...
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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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Fri 09/11/2009 3:29 PM
Wow. I got smacked hard with the depression stick, and such an odd time of year for it...
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Thu 08/27/2009 11:32 AM
Busy, exhausted, depressed, stressed, burnt out... take your pick. I will be back sooner or later...
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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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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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Fri 07/03/2009 2:21 PM
Tomorrow I'm turning thirty. Everyone I've told that (people who don't know me well and already know how old I am, that is) thinks I'm lying...
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Mon 06/22/2009 3:25 PM
It took me long enough, but the photos from my trip to Oregon are finally ready. They are captioned, selectively, because I wasn't about to write eighty-one captions...
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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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Wed 06/10/2009 4:13 PM
I'm alive and home from my trip, and I do have photos. They've been processed but not yet resized and uploaded.
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Fri 05/29/2009 8:13 PM
In just about sixteen hours I will be on a plane, on my way to Oregon. I'm mostly packed, with exception of a few random things i'm still using. It's all going to fit in one backpack, which has to...
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Thu 05/28/2009 12:20 PM
One of the things I had to do to prepare for my trip to Oregon was buy a few new MP3s to listen to on the plane. I got a few songs that have become popular recently, and a few old favorites I didn't already own...
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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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Fri 05/22/2009 1:54 PM
I've been looking into some of the new "pocket" video cameras, and for the next few weeks I'm borrowing a friend's Flip Video to try out and decide if it's a design I can even use. My issue is with holding it upright and still being able to see the screen...
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Wed 05/20/2009 3:35 PM
I had hoped to have my own online wishlist service up and running in time for my birthday, but that's just forty-five days away and with my busy schedule over the next several weeks, it doesn't look like that's going to happen...
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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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Wed 05/13/2009 4:45 PM
This is Brooskey, completely zonked out after running around my in-laws' yard all day Sunday. I'm posting it as a test to be absolutely sure that posting a photo to the site directly from my iPhone works the way I...
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Tue 05/12/2009 3:45 PM
I have an unusual challenge for those of you who know me personally. I don't just mean those who know me offline...
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Wed 05/06/2009 3:38 PM
There was an incident almost eight years ago, wherein a viral illness kicked my ass so hard I got out of bed one morning and promptly lost consciousness, before I even knew I was sick. I chose a great place to go down, in our bedroom in front of a large, very hard oak armoire, and messed up my face pretty good...
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Fri 05/01/2009 4:18 PM
My visit with the doctor today was pretty uneventful...
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Thu 04/30/2009 2:27 PM
It's been kind of a busy week at work. I've been working on a tedious project gathering scanned copies of all vendor invoices for a job we did in 2007-2008 (we're talking over a thousand invoices), and have been working right through my breaks just to get it done...
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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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Mon 04/13/2009 4:52 PM
I feel lost today. Lost as to what to blog about, lost as to what steps to take next in my quest to make an income on the internet...
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Mon 04/06/2009 10:58 AM
Once in a while I wake up in the middle of the night with some muscle in my body twitching. Only it's not really a twitch, but more of an unpleasant sensation building up in the muscle which is only relieved when I consciously move it...
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Fri 03/27/2009 2:03 PM
I've had a stressful week. First there was the incident at work which resulted in a coworker I really like quitting his job...
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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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Wed 03/11/2009 4:06 PM
I just realized today that I have three little niecerphews (seriously, we need a gender-neutral word for them, and that's as good as any) with birthdays coming up in the next month and a half...
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Mon 03/09/2009 2:56 PM
Speaking of the weekend, we took advantage of the nice weather and got a few things accomplished...
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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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Wed 03/04/2009 1:30 PM
Just a quick post to say that yes, I'm in a tiny funk this week, but don't worry about me... I'll get over it.
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Fri 02/27/2009 11:55 AM
I'm slowly but steadily losing the weight I want to lose. And slow is fine as long as it keeps coming off. I've been working out on Wii Fit for twenty to twenty-five minutes about every other day...
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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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Fri 02/13/2009 1:49 PM
It's unheard of for me to go this far into a winter before getting sick, and apparently the catch is that now I get to experience the most drawn-out, oddly fluctuating sinus/respiratory illness of my life...
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Thu 02/12/2009 9:50 AM
I have more data loss horror stories than you can imagine. One that stands out in my mind is the TiVo Desktop photo and music wipe...
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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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Thu 02/05/2009 11:57 AM
I have a cold. I feel yucky. I'm in a bad mood. So in an attempt to make myself feel better, here are some random things that have been annoying me lately...
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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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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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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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Fri 01/09/2009 2:49 PM
It's not a New Year's resolution (I don't make them, remember?), but now that the holidays and all the junk food that comes with them are behind us, I am getting back on the diet wagon. No fad diets, just plain old calorie counting and healthier food choices wherever possible...
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Thu 01/08/2009 3:14 PM
Calling all confoozled.com readers in Oregon and Washington... I will be in Oregon for a week-long visit with friends and family the first week in June. I'll be dividing most of my time between Hood River and Eugene, with probably one day in Portland...
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Tue 01/06/2009 4:25 PM
I've never been big on New Year's resolutions. I got the idea from Tina to do a "bucket list" instead. Each New Year, and even periodically throughout the year, I can check in on this list of things I want to do in my lifetime, see what progress I've made, and hopefully even add new things to the list...
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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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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 12/18/2008 3:47 PM
If Santa could bring me a new knee this Christmas, I wouldn't ask for anything else. My right knee decided two weeks ago, for no good reason, that it hates me...
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Wed 12/17/2008 6:46 PM
I know I haven't written anything yet this week. I've been too busy designing and sending out our Christmas e-card, writing out the few snail mail cards I'm sending this year, and decorating our pathetic little Christmas tree...
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Fri 12/12/2008 3:59 PM
Just four days ago the temperatures here with wind chill factored in were in the single digits. Then on Wednesday and again today it got up to sixty degrees...
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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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Wed 12/03/2008 4:00 PM
I'm happy to report that I am out of my anti-Christmas funk. We're still not going to have a tree this year, but I plan to put up all of our other decorations and make the place as Christmasy as I can...
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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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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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Mon 11/17/2008 12:39 PM
Am I turning into Scrooge in my old age? Or am I having a tougher case of depression than usual this winter? Or is it just too early?
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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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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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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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Thu 10/09/2008 10:36 AM
We took this photo of our friends John and Joy at the Rose & Crown Pub in Disney's Epcot during our trip last year. Though both from Rhode Island, they have lived in Florida since college...
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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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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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Mon 09/29/2008 4:55 PM
Don't get me wrong; there are parts of my current job that I do enjoy doing. Bookkeeping, accounting and other work with numbers does actually relax me...
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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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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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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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Fri 08/29/2008 3:59 PM
Like I mentioned before, August is usually when I start my Christmas shopping. Since I have to ship most of my gifts across the country, I like to be done with my purchases by Thanksgiving...
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Tue 08/26/2008 7:08 PM
A few hours ago I learned that my brother was a passenger in a bad car accident last night. There was one fatality and another is in critical condition...
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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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Fri 08/15/2008 12:04 PM
For as long as I can remember I've been one of those people who is always cold. In the winter it doesn't matter how many layers I'm wrapped up in - without an external heat source (i.e. a heater, my microwaveable polar bear, or another warm body), I'm freezing...
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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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Tue 08/12/2008 12:49 PM
Today Brooskey turns one year old. Yesterday he got a birthday card in the mail, actually addressed to him, from the company that supplies our pet insurance...
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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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Fri 08/01/2008 11:57 AM
As you can see, it's hard to catch Vixen in any one place for too long. In the last scene, it's hard to see, but that's a laser pointer Brooskey is chasing up and down the hallway - otherwise known as the "red bug"...
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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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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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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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Tue 06/17/2008 5:46 PM
One nice thing about one's birthday being a federal holiday is that it only costs four vacation days to take the week off (unless it falls on a Saturday, of course... then I get screwed). I don't know what I'm going to do that week, yet...
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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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Tue 06/03/2008 8:07 PM
Yesterday when I posted the quiz scores, I didn't mention anything about prizes because I had a dilemma: two first place winners, and only one prize to give away. So I needed more time to figure out what to do about that...
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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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Tue 05/20/2008 6:48 PM
I hate to just take a vacation with no plans of any type, because we'll just end up wasting the vacation days sitting at home doing nothing. So what I'd really like is to have someone come visit me...
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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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Thu 05/08/2008 5:16 PM
My family and close friends should do really well on this (you'd better!), but I think even those random readers just passing through can do a decent job with some research and a few educated guesses...
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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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Tue 04/29/2008 6:10 PM
Pay close attention when they send the family the video announcing that a sponsor has paid off their mortgage. That's the one they shot with us in the audience across the street from the house...
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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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Wed 04/23/2008 6:32 PM
I did find some online at a food service supplier, but I'm hoping to find them in a slightly smaller quantity so that I don't have to spend quite so much money at one time. Or at the very least, somewhere local so that I don't have to pay for shipping...
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Sun 04/20/2008 6:47 PM
It was an exhausting day for both of them, and they both passed out on the way home... Vixen fighting it the whole way by holding her head up as she slept...
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Fri 03/21/2008 1:14 PM
So now I will be on antibiotics for the next week, when I was going to be done tomorrow. But I can already feel them working, which is good...
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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 03/04/2008 6:57 PM
Just in case some of you were still concerned, my post the other day was entirely facetious...
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Thu 02/28/2008 6:45 PM
Whether everyone I've ever encountered in life is tone deaf, or this was just a cruel, cruel joke they all conspired to play on me for twenty-eight years, I don't know. But at least now I know the truth...
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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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Tue 02/19/2008 9:10 PM
I had some fun tonight, that is, before spilling my drink all over my computer desk, singing Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi on The Sims On Stage. Enjoy...
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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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Mon 01/28/2008 6:55 PM
Brooskey is maturing more every day and we look forward to all the fun we're going to have with him when he's full grown. And I'm already madly in love with this little girl, even before ever seeing her in person...
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Fri 01/18/2008 10:49 PM
What I discovered was that while I love all of her music and love singing along with her, her songs are actually very difficult to sing solo. This one was the only one I could bring myself to publish...
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Tue 01/15/2008 5:31 PM
A little while later we caught him in this pose, sitting there on the couch like a little old man with his arm on the armrest, dividing his attention between the TV and people-watching out the window...
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Fri 01/11/2008 6:30 PM
I'm having a lot of fun with it and have recorded several other songs already. As I do more I will try to share here every so often...
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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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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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Wed 11/28/2007 4:12 PM
The boss is never going to return a call where you're just "checking in". He doesn't have time for such nonsense...
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Tue 11/27/2007 11:19 AM
He might take a couple of nibbles, but when it doesn't work fast enough, he erupts in this burst of pent up frustration, sprinting circles around the house, growling and barking uncontrollably. I recognize this as a display of absolute desperation, because it's about the same thing I would do...
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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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Wed 11/14/2007 9:47 AM
I just want a plain bottle... popup would be great, but I'll even settle for a screw cap that I don't have to push down, line up, do yoga or offer up my firstborn to open...
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Tue 11/06/2007 12:53 PM
I'm amazed at how fast he's learning. He figured out "sit" in no more than twenty minutes in class on Saturday...
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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 1:41 PM
Don't blog first thing on a Saturday morning without fueling your brain first. I forgot to link to the photos from Epcot...
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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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Mon 09/10/2007 10:40 AM
In the meantime, you can entertain yourself with this twelve-and-a-half minute movie compiled from the video clips we shot throughout the Disney parks...
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Sun 08/26/2007 8:47 AM
In less than twelve hours we will be in Florida...
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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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Thu 07/26/2007 6:33 PM
There are a couple of new items... things I knew I needed but kept forgetting about. I have a few leads on the bag, but I'm going to see if I can find a used one that someone no longer needs first before I spend any money...
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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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Fri 07/20/2007 1:39 PM
The one thing we have to be grateful for, is that we were able to be by her side as she was peacefully put to rest (after all attempts to restore her breathing had failed). My biggest fear was of coming home one day to find she had died all alone, and I am grateful that it didn't happen that way...
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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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Wed 06/27/2007 5:22 PM
So now I have an alternate form of exercise for those days when the weather isn't walk-friendly. I tried it out for the first time last night and couldn't believe how sweaty I got in just twenty minutes on the thing...
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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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Mon 06/11/2007 11:25 AM
Join the confoozled.com SparkTeam and track your progress against me and other readers. Let's support and encourage each other while engaging in some friendly competition...
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Sat 06/09/2007 8:50 AM
I can't even explain why or how, but I was immediately more motivated than I ever have been. Maybe it was the fact that this site offers more features than eDiets, while being completely free, or maybe it was because I saw no less than three different disability support groups, and knew that if these other people with disabilities could do it, then I could too...
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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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Tue 05/29/2007 12:12 PM
I took a couple of mouthfuls of saltwater, and my face is now much more colorful than it was at the point this picture was taken (and it hurts like a MF), but I'm not complaining...
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Fri 05/25/2007 3:45 PM
I can't believe another month has gone by already. We are now down to three months until the Disney trip. One month until the final payment is due...
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Fri 05/11/2007 1:51 PM
The trip was great, but way too short. I only got to spend two days at my parents' house with them, my sister Lacey, and her three munchkins... and about the same amount of time with my older sister Dana...
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Wed 04/11/2007 1:05 PM
But, I will do it, and I will survive it, just like I always have. If I run into a situation where I really need help, I will ask for it. I'll have a book and my Nintendo DS to keep my mind off of how hungry and thirsty I am, and candy to keep my saliva flowing...
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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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Thu 03/15/2007 3:57 PM
Sure, I'm not immune to the typical complaints about work that everyone has. There are times I want to strangle people I work with, and there are days when I don't want to go or even get out of bed.
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Tue 03/13/2007 2:46 PM
I hate the cold, hate the rain (unless it comes with a reasonably entertaining thunderstorm), hate snow and ice, and hate oppressive heat and humidity...
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Mon 03/05/2007 3:50 PM
I'm not ashamed to say I got a little misty-eyed sitting there in that chair with the travel agent as we solidified our plans. The next six months are going to be the longest six months of my life...
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Fri 02/16/2007 1:39 PM
What's also nice is to have a brand new water heater, which we can reasonably trust not to give out and flood the condo anytime in the near future...
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Tue 02/13/2007 4:56 PM
Good thing the antibiotics have already reduced the sore throat to the point where I don't think I'll need any more pain killers. Now if I could just figure out what to do about the headache...
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Sat 02/10/2007 12:25 PM
My throat is dry and tickly, causing me to cough violently and unexpectedly, sometimes so hard that I'm sure I'm going to throw up all over myself...
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Thu 12/28/2006 3:59 PM
I had those stalker-type friends in school... the ones you have almost nothing in common with and really wish would just leave you alone, but who seem to idolize you and want nothing more than to spend every waking minute with you...
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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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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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Thu 11/16/2006 1:50 PM
I spent all morning at work today trying to find a payroll discrepancy that wasn't there...
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Thu 11/02/2006 12:28 PM
This week, we got a piece of mail at work that wasn't addressed to us. Nothing unusual in itself, but this one wasn't addressed to one of our neighbors either...
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Tue 10/10/2006 11:38 AM
On certain issues, my views are the opposite of just about everyone else in my life. I know that on these issues I am in the minority, or at least it seems so from what I hear from people on the matters...
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Tue 08/22/2006 10:19 PM
Listen to me ramble on about things that don't matter...
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Tue 08/15/2006 1:29 PM
So, I've been trying to find out whether there's something, some magical food perhaps, that reduces the effects of caffeine. Something that will just make the day a little bit more bearable...
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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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Thu 05/04/2006 2:36 PM
It's just not something you tend to think of before you do it...
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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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Sun 10/30/2005 7:16 PM
I love and miss you, and I'll have a drink for you tonight...
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Sun 09/25/2005 12:03 PM
The wedding was yesterday, and just before we left the church I saw someone over on the groom's side who I recognized but couldn't quite place...
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Thu 05/05/2005 10:12 AM
Tomorrow night though, we'll get a little break from all the stress of getting ready to move. This past Monday morning, I won tickets...
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Sat 04/23/2005 11:19 AM
Long time, no write! Oh, so much has happened since my last posting. Well, maybe not a lot of things, but at least one very big thing. And it explains why it has been so long since I've written anything...
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Fri 03/04/2005 11:05 AM
In my last entry I had just mentioned the possibility of homeownership, and now I tell you that we will be closing on a condo in mid-April...
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Sun 02/20/2005 6:49 PM
It's been quite a while since I've written anything. Much going on...
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Tue 01/18/2005 6:34 PM
I've stocked up on Jell-O, oatmeal, and instant potatoes... but haven't quite figured out how I'm going to drink fluids without sucking on a straw...
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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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Thu 12/16/2004 2:37 PM
I thought it would be fun (and a learning experience)...
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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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Wed 11/24/2004 3:53 PM
People miss you if you're gone - but they're not sure why...
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Wed 11/17/2004 10:47 PM
I'm tired of one thing going wrong after another. Not just for me, but for everyone I love...
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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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Fri 09/10/2004 3:56 PM
My only excuse for the delay of this posting is that I just needed some time for my head to clear enough to know what to write. Unfortunately I still don't...
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Thu 08/26/2004 10:24 PM
We noticed the flight status on the monitor by the gate was flashing between "gate change" and "departed", but knowing those things are erroneously programmed all the time we assumed it was nothing more than that...
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Sat 08/14/2004 10:26 PM
Maybe it's the fact I'm living in an apartment building that is literally held together by lots and lots of caulk...
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Thu 07/08/2004 10:40 PM
The diagnosis of pneumonia was first replaced with one of emphysema, later changed to "treatable" lung cancer. But they were still wrong...
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Tue 07/06/2004 10:58 PM
I had wanted to try a few different settings to make sure we got something usable, but apparently there was a miscommunication...
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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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Sat 06/26/2004 9:47 PM
Okay, so it's not like I expect or am even asking anyone who reads this to buy me something for my birthday...
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Tue 06/15/2004 4:16 PM
It would be nice to have a dining area with chairs and tables where one can sit and eat something, rather than having to settle for a chocolate milkshake which one then proceeds to spill all over the chair in which one was planning to sit...
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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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Sun 04/18/2004 3:32 PM
The whole family had been on edge for three weeks, thinking this baby would be born any second...
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Fri 04/02/2004 7:57 PM
I'm in a "life is unfair", "feel sorry for me" mood. Hey, I'm entitled once in a while...
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Thu 03/11/2004 11:14 AM
My mind keeps replaying the image of this little thing being whipped around and ripped to shreds by these two vicious animals...
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Sat 02/21/2004 10:14 PM
My problem is I get too much sleep, part of a vicious cycle of seasonal depression I'm working hard to break out of right now...
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Mon 02/16/2004 8:47 PM
Here's a little something Amancay posted to see who's reading her journal. I thought I'd answer here, and see who's reading confoozion too...
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Fri 02/13/2004 5:47 PM
After much finagling with dates and flight selections in order to get the best fare possible with the airline I wanted, I finally completed the purchase. Got on the phone with Mom to give her the info, only to discover...
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Thu 02/12/2004 5:08 PM
I'd better buy my ticket pretty soon here, too, before they are all sold out. I'm already having trouble finding the dates I want with the airline I want...
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Sun 01/25/2004 5:54 PM
...that straight line all the way across the country was a bus trip from Oregon to Rhode Island and back. And Georgia was a brief airline layover back in 2002...
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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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Sun 01/18/2004 1:08 AM
I got this crazy idea that I wanted to figure out how I can write an article on my PDA while out "on the road", and have it post automatically when I sync up. So I set out to find...
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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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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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Fri 09/26/2003 2:27 PM
My adventure in weight loss continues to move along smoothly. I now have only five pounds to go to reach my healthy weight range.
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Tue 08/26/2003 9:49 PM
The four-inch depth of unpleasantries that came up from our bathtub drain took the life of three towels that were hanging over the side of the tub...
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Fri 08/15/2003 2:42 PM
I had no idea how easy it was going to be, and can't believe I put it off for so long!
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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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Sun 06/29/2003 12:13 AM
It made its entrance last weekend with a series of good ol' New England thunderstorms... including lightning strikes to a house in East Providence and a trailer park in North Attleboro...
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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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