family&038;friends - Growing Old Disgracefully

HNY

Published on December 31 2007

Before I toddle off to bring in the NewYear driving a humongous stationary piece of machinery (and, incidentally, to enjoy a Prime Rib potluck dinner at said place of employment!), I want to wish everyone the happiest of New Years. What a year of change...

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Days of Yore... "Your"? "You're"?

Published on December 22 2007

Whatever. I never was really sure what a "yore" was anyway. Some kind of Christmas thing. I've always been fascinated at the things people choose to post on the 'net. From family photos on Flickr to diaries to academic papers to music to videos on YouTube,...

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Chapter One

Published on October 27 2007

In which Rudy decides that being dressed as the Rock Lobster for Halloween isn't what he signed up for when he chose to live with us grace this house with his presence.... And here I am, trying to write a midterm with 3 bajillion little trickortreaters...

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Oh yeah, almost forgot....

Published on October 24 2007

Received a little text message on my phone yesterday morning: Hi Laurie we are at cape kennedy watching the space shuttle launch VIP STYLE! To which I replied, only *somewhat* grumpily: go ahead, RUB it in! I am at WORK! :-P Later, at 10:58 am local,...

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On losing my best friend

Published on September 21 2007

Rudy tells me exactly what he thinks of me for having certain of his body parts removed, fore and aft: I'm hoping he'll talk to me again when his paws and his.... ahem.... are all healed up. Right now, he's ignoring me mightily, refusing to even play...

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The Motley Crew in da UP

Published on September 8 2007

What a trip!! We had a great time--my poor repeatedly sun-and-wind-burned nose may never recover. Day One was great. It was my first time riding long-distance in a large group, so I was a little nervous. I didn't want to fall back and miss a stoplight,...

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watersports

Published on July 31 2007

I forsee my water bill going through the roof...... { gallery [catinsink_1] } Now if I can just teach him to turn the faucet OFF when he's finished.....

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the ubiquitous Friday cat blog

Published on July 13 2007

Yes, he fell in. Again. I'm getting real tired of fishing this animal out of my toilet.

Rudy was ill over the weekend, sneezing, coughing, sleepy and listless -- not a kitten at all, more like a furry little ball of snot. The sneezing wouldn't have been so bad, except that kittens don't cover their mouths when they sneeze. Yeah, it was like...

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Tuesday mangy kitten-blogging

Published on June 12 2007

He's kinda cute when he first wakes up in the morning, I gotta admit.