Category: domestic bliss
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I dropped in at Dad's on the way back from a last-minute work appointment in Menasha earlier this week. My timing was excellent—they were going to have dinner at Cedar Lodge. Cedar Lodge does what it does very well. Which is to say, it stuffs you to the gills with red meat and ridiculous extras while…
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Gotta love the dog walker's status update. The subject line for photo 2 was "success". Good lord.
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I've been limping along with a hodgepodge of damaged devices both at work and home for months. The work lap top is missing the air card and the battery, only one usb port works, and the little hourglass is up so often I am in danger of being hypnotized by it. My big home eMac…
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It is very satisfying to shovel out my front walk; clearing away the 8" of compacted snow and ice that is at last melting into manageable chunks in today's sunny spring tease. It is back-breaking to do it with a trunk-sized emergency car shovel. I should get a proper shovel, but I refuse. I'm a…
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I have my Motto for 2011! I'm going to learn how to do the things that I have, at some point in my life, claimed to know how to do (or about), but in fact, don't. Like riding a bicycle. This will also include doing a few things that I never made false claims about,…
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I've been offered a position as a parenting consultant after this creative attempt at discipline seems to actually worked! Taming two little boys into treating toys nicely is a tough one. Even though it worked for now, overall, I give it two weeks. :) click on the photo of the letter above to see it…
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I haven't posted since October?! Shame on me. Blame Facebook. Here's to a better showing in 2011. I have not found my motto for 2011 yet, it is sure to find me in the coming weeks. I prefer a motto to resolutions; mottos are positive, inspiring and more likely to last. However, Aunt Peg's motto…
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I really want to get the Trailer in time for use next summer…steps must be taken to save the bucks for the trailer, the seasonal site, the fix up, the maintenance….and the For Sale sign when I realize I don't actually like camping after all. The recession shows little signs of improvement; I need to…
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I've said since I was all of 25 and already mildly bitter, that my ideal domestic situation is not marriage, or even living together, but instead is "Two one-bedroom apartments next door to each other with a shared balcony". Or perhaps one of those hotel-style adjoining-room double doors. I've lived in and viewed a hundred…
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Wow…I had an eventful, lovely summer, but didn't blog from mid-July through mid-September. Perhaps I wasn't blogging because I was out living. Or perhaps it was because I couldn't find my computer under Mom's crumpled Kleenex's. Either way, it's high time to catch up… …huh, all my funny summer stories escape me at the moment.
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