Friday Shuffle - Who Needs a Calendar? Edition
Hmmmm. Nearly forgot to write today as all day I've thought it was Saturday. B and I tend to live on a pretty regular schedule so when anything pops up to throw off that schedule, I'm hopeless to...
View ArticleFriday Shuffle - Not What I Expected Edition
I was up to my elbows in taking a grilled chicken off the bone. It's a job that fairly grosses me out and I try not to think of what exactly I'm doing less I lose my appetite for chicken completely....
View ArticleFirst Day of Many
Yesterday was one of those days you dread - the first of the season, in fact. Those days when it's too warm and too muggy and you're praying for a thunderstorm to come along and wash everything clean....
View ArticleFriday Shuffle - Swing and Sway Edition
Oops! You caught me. I was absolutely not paying attention and didn't realize how late in the evening it is. Y'all were expecting a shuffle and I was busy listening out the window to the folks on the...
View ArticleResurfacing
I considered seeing if I could go three weeks without a blog entry but decided against it.I'm fine here. Better than I've been in a while actually. I'll give you more details later - probably Friday -...
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Friday Shuffle - Music from Unexpected Sources Edition
I'd planned on letting y'all in on what I've been doing for the past three weeks but since it's Friday let's just stick to a musical theme. I'll bear my soul next week.I live smack in the middle of the...
View ArticleBuyer's Remorse
I've been wearing glasses since I was ten years old. There was a good twenty-five years where I wore contact lenses almost exclusively but since age caught up with me and I had to switch to bifocals I...
View ArticleFriday Shuffle - Already Said My Goodbyes Edition
Like many of you I've been watching a lot of coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. I was shocked but not particularly surprised. Actually it would have been surprising for Michael Jackson to not...
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Friday Shuffle - Lifesize and Orange Edition
I'm sure I've mentioned a couple seventy-jillion times that I absolutely dig Abraham Lincoln. While he was flawed and did some things during his life and during his presidency that could and did raise...
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Plan for One Thing, Another Happens
It was my intention to show y'all some pictures of Hannover from my Saturday spent there with Christina, Claire, and Claire's husband and son - popularly known as the German and the Dude. Unfortunately...
View ArticleFriday Shuffle - Time to Pack Edition
Last Saturday after I got home from my trip to Hannover B asked me if I'd like to move. He wasn't sure how the conversation got started but sometime while I was gone he got to talking with my MIL and...
View ArticleTry, Try Again
I found out today that the flat we'd be seeing on Friday doesn't have elevator access that goes to the ground floor. There are six steps up to the elevator so that puts us out. And the elevator doesn't...
View ArticleFriday Shuffle - Foiled Again Edition
I was all revved up to show you pictures of the flat I won't be moving to but that fell through for today. The lady from the rental company was short handed at the office and couldn't leave so we're...
View ArticleThe Lazy Peach's Way Out
Facebook is killing me. I waste more time messing with virtual farms and houses and mafia crews and taking inane quizzes. Maybe it makes up for my ability to get a houseplant to live for more than six...
View ArticleSo I Came Back
This thing still work?So after an absence of nearly a year and a half, blah blah blah blah...you know where I'm going with this. I blogged. I got tired of blogging. I stopped. I got to urge to write...
View ArticleAaaaand Here's Two
I purposely didn't write a blog entry yesterday. When I made the decision to write in my blog again I realized it would coincide with NaBloPoMo and I'd been an eager participant (and...
View ArticleFriday Shuffle - Don't Promise What You Can't Deliver Edition
Once in a while I have to remind myself yet again that there's a reason why I don't knit things as gifts for others. Let me correct that. I knit virtually everything as a gift for another - I just...
View ArticleMaking Myself Do It
The thing about not writing is that not writing makes it harder to write when you decide you want to get back to writing. And, as it turns out, also seems to make you construct some pretty awkward...
View ArticleShow Me Your Wares
When I'm home in the US for a visit I find that I have very limited time to watch television and that's understandable. No one wants to fly 5,000 miles to see folks you only see every few years and...
View ArticleFamily History
Four years ago I wrote about the relationship I had with my father. Today's would have been my father's 85th birthday and so I dug back in my blog archives to read it. I've done that each year since I...
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