This year has been a mystery from the start.  In the great win and loss column of life, I think this year would be a tie.  And I don’t know how I feel about that. This year has been bookended by crises and loss and more than anything I’m just exhausted from trying to keep [...]

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1.  Only By The Night–Kings of Leon. When I first heard Kings of Leon on SNL earlier this year I thought to myself, “Self, why haven’t you heard this music before?”  It was probably because I pushed KOL off as too hipster for my tastes.  Boy was I wrong.  This album really sold me on [...]

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1.  Why is our normal bathroom closed at work?  I hate going to the Bizzaro Bathroom.  Everything’s backwards in there.  It makes me feel akward and ill at ease.  Please get this fixed quickly, building management. 2.  Why does The Mister insist on being difficult?  SO WHAT if I have stuff on the dresser?   [...]

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I watch House on USA on Sunday.  They claim it helps cure the End of the Weekend Itis. But today I’ve noticed a dangerous trend in the commericals playing during House.  I’ve seen numerous ways to tone my tummy, various methods of reducing wrinkles and multiple products to help me lose weight. So I ask [...]

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I have the touch of Midas, only in reverse.  I have the gift of a healing touch, only the opposite.  I have the gift of right place, right time, only in the wrong storyline. At least I have something, though. My Christmas wasn’t horrible.  I didn’t encounter any great faith-challenging nightmares.  I didn’t have a [...]

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Highlight: The Mister’s clever stocking (Hairspray DVD, Hairspray tickets for January to see the touring production and little travel hairspray bottles) and his following pride. Lowlight: Coming home to another basement versus nature mystery that we’ll have to decode tomorrow. Looking forward to: Being done with finding out whatever the problem is in the basement. [...]

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As some of you had comments about Lucy’s kitty acne yesterday, it reminded me that I needed to tell you all more about her. Full Name: Lucy Lou Date of Birth: August 29, 2002 Date of Adoption: late November 2002 Likes: purring very loudly, sitting in sunbeams, curling up amongst stuffed animals, stuffed animals that [...]

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The Animals truly love Sundays.   While I was taking pictures of my domesticity experiment this weekend, I took some candid shots of the pets with The Mister’s phone, as my camera is awaiting arrival of a replacement cord to charge it. Lucy and Spencer were investigating a light on the wall caused from The Mister’s [...]

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The Mister and I have been a couple of Scrooges this year.   We’ve purchased most of the requisite gifts, but we haven’t decorated save a wreath and our Charlie Brown Christmas tree.  It’s a cute little tree, but it doesn’t really bring any warmth too the room. For the better part of the last month [...]

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I’m a sucker for surveys, so ever since I saw this up on Distractable Jane, I’ve been dying to do it.  Since it’s so quiet here today, I decided I might as well. 1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? I argued a motion by myself.  I purchased a home [...]

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