Archive for December, 2005
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
End of the Year Meme
I’d give credit for this, but I honestly don’t remember where I picked it up.
1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before? Got a tattoo.
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I made a resolution to read more books in 2005 and [...]
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Friday, December 30th, 2005
Condolences
Please join with me in offering condolences to Missy J. and T’Lana (and their family) in the death of their father last evening.
High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred [...]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Limbo Land
It must be the tepid, unseasonable weather. Not only am I having trouble keeping my eyes open, my synapses are misfiring right and left. The germ of an idea starts somewhere behind my left ear but the impulse goes screaming off into oblivion before I can make it a full blown thought. Even a late [...]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Holiday: Overheard 8
Yesterday at the bank drive-through the fellow in the beat up Mustang to my left was blasting the soundtrack from “Walk the Line” and indulging his vocal Johnny Cash/Joaquin Phoenix fantasies. He was drowning out my tunes so I paused the Shuffle and rolled the window down a little to more clearly hear, “Cry, Cry, [...]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Holiday Gang
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What a holiday gang! Back row: Mr. and Mrs. Wookie, Me, SerenityVeritas, M.L., the Wookie-in-Law. Front Row: R. and G. We ate, laughed, talked, and had a thoroughly wonderful evening!
(New photos in the holiday album here.)
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Monday, December 26th, 2005
Monday Minutes
Since our holiday gathering of 7 or 8 has turned into 11 or 12 for tomorrow evening, today was given over to necessary preparations – like cleaning out the refrigerator in anticipation of new leftovers. I could have done it yesterday, but we enjoyed a lovely, quiet Christmas Sunday and I gave myself over to [...]
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Sunday, December 25th, 2005
Sunday Synopsis, Xmas Edition
May you spend today with people you love doing things that bring you warmth and joy. We allow this season to become too complicated and too commercial. An “observance” should involve “observing.” Look around today and find your smile. Although we may never meet you in person, your presence here makes you a part of [...]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005
Christmas Eve
For many years on Christmas Eve we attended a neighborhood gathering. As good Episcopalians, our hosts always ushered we Methodists out before they took off for midnight service. We’d go home and open gifts and I fell into the habit of watching the televised mass from the Vatican. All in all, it made for an [...]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Busy Day
It’s been a full day and a couple of friends will be dropping by shortly, but I did manage to get a few of our holiday season photos (to date anyway) loaded into a gallery. Click here.
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Wookie Gets Dog Piled
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The Wookie-In-Law has a new Corgie puppy, Einstein. I finally got to meet the little guy this afternoon and was witness to the Wookie getting dog-piled by Ein and Tag who was obviously reminding Dad who the Top Dog is around the old homestead.
