random thoughts [this is rreally how my mind workks...]

i’m leaving the typos in the title, i like them!
who decided that red wine goes in a fat glass and white wine goes in a tall glass?
do you wash meat off before you cook it?  i do, just in case they dropped it on the floor before they wrapped it….
i liked it when you could go [...]

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unseasonably warm weather…

yesterday morning it was around 60* here at 6:30 in the morning ~ this is very unusual for this place, so in honor of the warm weather i took an emergency half day vacation…  i just didn’t want to be at work and miss a nice friday afternoon [my brain shuts down around noon on [...]

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shit! i’m officially old!

i haven’t been here for quite a while (i’ve been on facebook a lot and i’m having a love/hate relationship with that) and i’ve had a birthday since then…. had a 40 year high school reunion, went on a couple of nice vacations, ushered in the new football season, watched the summer change to fall [...]

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july 22, 1914

today is my mother’s birthday.  she was a cancer, my birthday is two weeks from today, i am a leo.  she would have been 95 years old today.  she wasn’t just my mom, she was my best friend.
she called my every saturday at 11:30 in the morning from the time i went to college until [...]

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bedding…

i washed all my bedding tonight, down to and including the mattress pad… 
beds didn’t used to be fancy, there were cribs for babies, twin beds or trundle or bunk beds for kids and adults had ‘regular’ beds…  sheets even used to come in ‘regular’ ~ rich people may have had larger beds, but i didn’t [...]

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indivisable…

these are thoughts from last friday morning ~
i like to wake up a little early before i have to get up and just find a comfortable [pain free] position and just lay there until it’s time to get up…
this morning i spent my 20 minutes trying to remember the pledge of allegiance ~ don’t ask [...]

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i’m so lazy i had cereal for dinner….again

hello! to all my blog friends [i just checked out my map and i have had visits from 56 different countries....that's a lot!!]  i also just looked and it’s been nearly two months since i wrote anything new on here except for the weight of my giant cat…. i’m sorry ~ the only excuse i have [...]

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a bunch of stuff from the weekend…

i put my giant cat on a diet.  he is eating food that is duck and pea [kind of sounds like something you would do on a long hike in the woods...]  i guess it is like putting my cat on the atkins diet.  he doesn’t seem any thinner, but he’s only been at this [...]

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and i thought yesterday was a pissy day!

today i was on my way to meet some friends for lunch… it was oh about 5* at the time.  i had a couple of extra minutes so i thought i would stop and fill my truck with gas…  it is a good idea to have a full tank because when it gets this cold [...]

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random thoughts from a[nother] four day weekend

do you ever wonder why you do something?  i was just outside using the broom to push the remaining snow off my truck before it freezes into a rock solid mass…. when i was finished i brought the broom in the house and put it in the corner by the back door.  you may not [...]

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