Archive for November, 2005
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Remembering Johnny
This afternoon I watched the Ellen Degeneres show. She was celebrating her 25th anniversary doing comedy and shared many old clips and photos from her early appearances. I didn’t know that she was the first female comedian Johnny Carson invited to come over to the desk and talk with him after she’d done her routine [...]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
A Bit Of Fun
MissMeliss has this bit of fun going on over at her place so I decided to join in:
“If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don’t speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be [...]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
New Course, Courses? Curses? Of Course!
As predicted my textbooks for the correspondence course in indexing arrived yesterday. One thing or another prevented me from sitting down to read and take notes until after eleven last night. This was my first experience with studying in the presence of a feline triumvirate. Dorey calmly surveyed the scene and then looked at me [...]
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
Cooked Bird Thing
For us the holidays extend past the official “day,” because we always do the big dinners with our Movie Group family. R. was adamant that all she wanted to do on Thursday was watch the Macy’s parade and have a quiet dinner – just the two of us (and four cats sitting at key strategic [...]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Synopsis Sunday
Our week ended with good friends enjoying our traditional, belated, Thanksgiving dinner. As usual I worried there wouldn’t be enough food. Two turkey breasts, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, sweet potatoes, creamed onions, monkey bread, and buttermilk pie for dessert. Needless to say, my worries were unfounded. R. did wonderfully well for 99% of [...]
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
Snapshot Saturday
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The snapshot was a little delayed today so I could show you the annual Thanksgiving photo of our Movie Group friends who shared a wonderful meal with us tonight. That’s R. in the red and white striped shirt, then in the next row Missy J., M.J., M.L., and Mrs. Wookie, and [...]
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
It’s Official!
Well, it’s official, I have survived and thus “won” my first NaNoWriMo and I was in the first batch of 100 participants to validate my 50,104 word count.
Here’s a screen capture of my profile page with the nifty little winner’s ribbon around my picture and a graph of my word count as it progressed.
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Finished!
I can’t officially validate my word count until tomorrow but I just passed the required 50,000 word mark on my National Novel Writer’s Month manuscript — on day 24 of the 30 day event. Yes, this is chest puffing you are detecting on my part.
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Down At Nine Mile
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This is one of my favorite photos of my great-grandparents Alf and Charlcie Reeves. It was taken at a family reunion, not Thanksgiving, but I think it gives you a fair idea of what a holiday spread must have looked like “down at their place on Nine Mile.”
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
Pre-Turkey Day Wishes
We are having a quiet pre-Thanksgiving evening here at Casa Eclectic. Unlike millions of pour souls all over the United States, we are neither stuck in traffic, stuck in an airport, or stuck with more relatives than anyone likes to see gathered in one place. Let me just say, for these things we are thankful.
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