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  • 25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP

    06 September 2006 ( #jokes, #Pics and Babbling )

    1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them. 2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question. 3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge. 4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed. 5. You hear your favorite song in...

  • for this day

    10 September 2006 ( #Commonplace, #Current Affairs )

    In the calling out to one another of the lovers up and down the strand In the sound of the waves and the cries of the seagulls circling the sand In the fragments of the songs carried down the wind from some radio In the murmuring of the city in the distance...

  • Wondering about the legal process...

    14 September 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    Ya gotta wonder just a teensy bit about Judges these days. Judge warns victims' mother not to cry on stand BARTOW, Florida (Court TV) -- Warned by the judge that tears could trigger a mistrial, a mother was stoic in front of a Florida jury Tuesday as...

  • Please don't ask me how I found this article

    28 September 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    Urination will go to committee A local decision that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating has provoked political debate. The head of The Democrats Party, a splinter group of former Progress Party hardliners, Vidar Kleppe, is outraged that...

  • Wooooooo [expletive deleted] Hooooooooo!!!!

    07 October 2006 ( #music, #Pics and Babbling )

    She shoots! She SCORES. Something good had to happen this weekend, right? Item #37 on my list is about to be completed. Thirty-odd years since discovering his music and falling in love....I'm finally going to get to see him. I just knew he'd hate retirement,...

  • This is kinda cool

    22 October 2006 ( #Commonplace, #Pics and Babbling )

    If I use the married name... HowManyOfMe.com There are: 12 people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? But if I use the maiden-once-again-to-be-last?-name.... HowManyOfMe.com There is: 1 person with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your...

  • Seger Countdown

    08 October 2006 ( #Background, #Pics and Babbling )

    Okay, now I am *not* going to do a daily countdown. And I pormise this is *not* going to turn into the "Seger Fan Page" even though the last couple of posts might look like it. Surfing around Youtube brought back some memories of why I'm a Seger fan....

  • Now I own a collectors' item!!

    20 October 2006 ( #change, #Pics and Babbling )

    Ford set to produce last Taurus - Yahoo! News DEARBORN, Mich. - Sometime next week, the assembly line at a Ford plant near Atlanta will come to a halt, signaling the end of a family sedan so revolutionary that its 1985 debut changed forever the way cars...

  • Doing my part...

    26 October 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    ...by losing some of the "junk in MY trunk"!! Soooo.....since I've lost a large amount of weight since 2001--and no, I'm not going to actually write the number out, lol-- looks like I'm in the $30 per year savings area. $30 over five years....hmmmm........

  • aptitude tests

    24 October 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling, #School )

    One of the requirements for class this week was to take a "job aptitude" test. Considering I've been in more or less one career for a veryveryvery long time, I thought it might be interesting to see what I *should* be doing with my life!! I clipped a...

  • Cards top Tigers 4-2 to win World Series - Yahoo! News

    27 October 2006 ( #'Sconsin stuff, #Pics and Babbling )

    Cards top Tigers 4-2 to win World Series - Yahoo! News ST. LOUIS - Favored by few, the St. Louis Cardinals used an unlikely cast of characters to win their first World Series in nearly a quarter century. And we all remember who they beat in 1982 to take...

  • Satan is loose in my bedroom

    30 October 2006 ( #Family&038;Friends, #Pics and Babbling )

    Yes, you read that right. Satan. The hamster. Got up early this morning (damn that Daylight Savings Time thing!) and was walking 'round, making my bed, picking up stray pillows off the floor, heading to the kitchen for the morning caffeine fix--and spotted...

  • results

    07 November 2006 ( #'Sconsin stuff, #Current Affairs )

    10:13 pm CST--CNN just announced the Dems took back the House. Not sure yet about the Senate, that's still an if. Wonder if they've let John Kerry out of his soundproofed padded room yet? We're back to a divided government, more partisan, more deadlocked,...

  • Satan has been captured alive...

    30 October 2006 ( #Family&038;Friends, #Pics and Babbling )

    ...he finally got hungry, and came out from his hiding place. Apparently he spent all day hiding (sleeping) in my knitting basket, which has airholes large enough for a hamster to squeeze into, since I spotted him as he was squeezing out. He is now safely...

  • Weekly horrorscope

    04 December 2006 ( #change, #Pics and Babbling )

    Going to be an extremely busy week, by the looks of it...I better go get some sleep, it's almost 7:30..... yawn. This week December 4 through December 10 Libra Don't get scammed by a bogus organization that asks for money on Monday. Tuesday an old friend...

  • Tonight's surf-bored

    26 November 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    Just all over the place tonight, lol. I finished my final paper for class and turned it in this afternoon. (A, btw.) Dispersed kids to all their various home ports and sat down this evening to read. I started out with a Washington Post article on the...

  • :D

    29 November 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling, #School )

    Yeah. Positive strokes are a good thing at this time in my life, lol. Course Title: Academic & Career Planning Course Number: RQ295 Session: Fall 2006 Session B Course Grade: A Credit Hours: 3 Current GPA: 4.0000 Grade Posted Date: 11/29/2006 Next up:...

  • Senate Dems tremble...

    13 December 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    Staff: Senator hospitalized with stroke-like symptoms - CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Tim Johnson, D-South Dakota, was hospitalized Wednesday after he suffered stroke-like symptoms in his Washington office, his staff said. Johnson, who turns 60 on...

  • Best. Headline. Ever.

    15 December 2006 ( #'Sconsin stuff, #Pics and Babbling )

    Wisconsin Man Runs Over, Eats Seven-Legged Transgendered Deer FOND DU LAC, Wis. — Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow, but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said...

  • Ummmmm........ so where are the missiles supposed to go again?

    20 November 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    wcbstv.com - Anti-War Activists Plan 'Global Orgasm For Peace' (CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. But they don't want you marching in the streets. They'd much rather you...

  • How did I miss Jimmy's birthday?!?!?!

    13 January 2007 ( #Pics and Babbling, #School )

    A pirate Looks at 60 Buffett is one of the music business' singular success stories. He has parlayed an unlikely subject—getting shitfaced while cruising the Gulf Coast in your power boat, basically—into a multimillion-dollar industry, a perennial place...

  • post-shopping (tgid*) dinner

    23 December 2006 ( #Family&038;Friends, #Photos )

    (*tgid= "Thank God it's DONE") The best thing---nay, the ONLY good thing about Christmas shopping on the VERY LAST SHOPPING DAY BEFORE THE HOLIDAY is the Chinese Buffet at the end. I had my shoes off underneath the table....ahhhhhh, heaven..... Santa's...

  • After all these years....I *still* hate tests

    29 December 2006 ( #Pics and Babbling, #School )

    Midterm in progress. Wish me luck, lol. [Update two hours later] My head is spinning. Three essays and a bunch of multiple choice questions....and I got one MC question wrong, so no perfect score for me! :-(( And the essays? Not a clue how I did. I can't...

  • James Lileks looks back on 2007

    28 December 2006 ( #Current Affairs, #Pics and Babbling )

    and as usual, he's hilarious. I loved his take on the next Pres election. Bolding mine. James Lileks American politics were in that blessed period between elections, but jockeying continued for the presidential spot in both parties. Hillary Clinton made...

  • They're not on my "lifetime list"

    04 January 2007 ( #music, #Pics and Babbling )

    ...but I sure wouldn't mind seeing this band get back together. AND come to the frozen tundra!! The Police May Reunite For Tour - Entertainment Billboard Magazine is reporting that the trio the Police will reunite for a 2007 tour of the U.K. and the United...