Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
We had just gotten home from a wonderful weekend in Mendocino. I decided to turn in early, crawling in bed to read, the dog curled up at the foot of the bed. What a heavenly way to bring the weekend to a close.
Bang! HOLLY SHIT, the house is moving! I feel dizzy, as everything sways back and forth. I’m hearing noise everywhere, and the dog takes off down the hall barking; he’s sure there is an intruder. The bird, completely freaked out, falls off his perch and flaps his wings wildly from the bottom of the cage! Five seconds later, everything is STILL moving! I’m standing in the doorway, yelling at the dog, who’s still barking…
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Tags: Woe is me
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
It was off to a rocky start! I had pre-arranged to take both Monday and Tuesday off for a long weekend getaway. Bill and I decided to celebrate our two-year wedding anniversary (and 12 years being together anniversary) in
Mendocino, California. This was planned months ago (a surprise from him). We planned to leave early Saturday morning. Friday, the day prior, I woke up with a fever, full-body aches, an exploding head and my stomach felt like a football team was aggressively playing down to their 2-minute warning! What to do? Go to work? I tried. I got up, twice, during the night and took hot baths, soaking…
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Tags: Fun, Humor, Love, Photography, Webster, wedding
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Everyone around me lately has been sick, sneezing, coughing, and they’re dropping like flies. One day they’re in the office and the next day … well, they’re STILL in the office! A few weeks ago I did something I had never done before: I had asked one of my colleagues, who had come to work sick (who was in need of antibiotics), if she planned…
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Tags: Gripes, Health, Humor, Rants, Woe is me
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
At dinner the other night, my husband asked me, “Did you see the story about the Cocker Spaniel?” Sigh … No, I had not, and I had a feeling that I didn’t want to. “Did a dog die? If a dog died, I don’t want to hear about it,” I concluded. He flinched, telling me that I did want to know about it, but maybe just not right then.…
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Tags: Animals, Dogs, Gripes, Rants, Worthy Causes
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
During my morning rush to work yesterday, I was radio channel-surfing (checking the traffic as to avoid another
2 ½ hour commute) and caught the tail end of commentary. Normally, I’m an expert at tuning out commercials, but as I heard the name of the wine label I sat straight up, unable to believe what I was hearing. The name:
Cleavage Creek! CLEAVAGE? Did I hear that correctly, or was I more tired than I thought? Was this for real? I mean what kind of marketing ploy was this using Cleavage in the…
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Tags: Cleavage Creek Cellars, Humor, Worthy Causes
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
You are running late, jump into your car and head off to work, tunes blasting, only to sit for 2 hours in what turns out to be nothing more than a parking lot! A Big Rig is blocking both lanes in the SAME direction in which you are headed. Never you mind, dreaming of that first cup of coffee you'll have soon, very soon. Soon, soon, soon. But NOT soon enough! Instead, your focus shifts to the fact that you were in such a hurry to get to get out the door that you FORGOT to go to the bathroom BEFORE you left the house! Never mind the fact that you completely ignored your motto, the one you have -- successfully -- lived by all these years as a long-distance…
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Tags: Humor, Woe is me
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Recently, I read an article about the iCrime Wave published by The
Urban Institute. I got a bit of a chuckle. REALLY folks, any new gadget is a target for theft, so why they focused on the iPod is really beyond me (OK, lots of people DO own them, but there are still a lot of people who have yet to discover the
bliss of owning an iPod). You can buy an iPod for under a hundred bucks if you really want one (no need to steal one). But I know that isn’t the point. And on the note of NOT getting the point is the Urban article. I would really be…
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Tags: Apple, Fun, Humor, iPod, Microsoft, shopping, Zune
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I feel like crap, and what is that GOD AWFUL noise? It’s 7:00 am (give or take, by what I can tell from opening one eye, only slightly) and I am tired and making every attempt to make a second round of sleeping in. But what is that WHINING noise? I know I didn’t set the alarm and even if I did the electricity went off yesterday (just like the day before), because we live in the woods, damnit, and that’s what happens when you live in the woods! I reach over to the nightstand, feeling my way for the earplugs. I put them in and go back to sleep. I get to sleep al right, but I have no idea for how long when I hear that WHINING, YET AGAIN! I…
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Tags: Books, Dog, Fun, Humor, Raining, Relaxation, Webster
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Okay, Okay ... I admit it! I'm obvioulsy confused as I've moved my blog AGAIN for the 3RD TIME (Que sera, sera)! It's not often that I DON'T do my homework, but…
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Tags: blogging, Humor
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
________________________________________________________________________________________ It was after dinner when my husband, Bill, suggested we drop by the bookstore to “browse” a bit. “Are you kidding?” I said to him. “Browse? You do know that I’ve completely forgotten how to browse, right? Don’t you think…
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Tags: Books, Fun, Humor, shopping
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