Right now I’m taking a break from cleaning our basement.  The fact is that it smells like animals and musty and has been calling for my attention for much longer than I care to admit.  The problem with this is that, not unlike many things in my life, it is still under construction after the [...]

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One of the daunting things about being a blogger who actually wants to gain readership (some people don’t, believe it or not), is that you have to keep promoting yourself.  This actually goes very much against my natural grain.  But no one is going to discover a blog that isn’t OUT there. Enough blabbing, right? [...]

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You know what is more irritating than knowing you’re depressed?  Someone trying to shake you out of it with niceties.  Now that Mom has joined  the chorus of people telling me to take a walk or play with the dog or listen to music I like to “snap out of it,” I’ve begun to notice [...]

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How sad is it that I accidentally typed “2008″ instead of “2009″?  In some ways that can sum up this list–behind the eight ball, so to speak.  There are many books that I have never read that I’m ashamed to admit to never having read.  This has happened for one reason or another.  They aren’t [...]

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My obsession with all things about the Family Duggar–the amazingly growing family with 18 kids “and counting“–continues.  I’ve been picking up some tips along the way from Jim Bob, Michelle and the gang.  And although most of them won’t help me in my own life, they still create food for thought. Without further adieu, here [...]

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If you had $100,000, tax free, how would you spend it?  What if you had to give 10% of it to charity….what charity would you pick and why? This thought came to me on my Massive Day O’Driving 2009.  The second one actually came later…like right now when I didn’t want to seem too ungrateful [...]

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I didn’t watch this season of American Idol.  I could never get into having that full-time fourth judge.  There was something about Kara DioGuardi that rubbed me the wrong way from the get-go.  The whole thing threw the ship off course and I couldn’t seem to steer it back to a place where I was [...]

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Remember Paul Harvey?  The Mister doesn’t seem to remember him.  He was a famous radio broadcaster that did this show called “The Rest of the Story.”  Basically he’d tell you the background to this amazing story and later you’d find out “The Rest of the Story”–meaning you’d find out why this story was so important [...]

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Oh, Life.  How you like to surprise me from time to time!  I appreciate you keeping me on my toes, even when those toes are battered and bruised and war-torn. – Me.  Circa this morning.  To Life. This is what happens when everything turns out to be a negative situation in your life–you start seeing [...]

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Why is everything up in my grill at the moment? Every single thing is just one more idiocy bigger than the last.  My skin on my shoulders and chest is peeling at an alarming rate.  Tim Hortons’ employees questioned my desire for plain tea with two Sweet N’ Lows  (“You don’t want, like, a flavor?”).  [...]

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