Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
End of the Year
I still don’t remember where I got this list, but it was an interesting assessment to work out last year, so here are this year’s answers.
1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? Bought an Apple laptop, my beloved MacBook known as McKitty. (Or as some have termed it, I went [...]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
The Garage Door in the Night
A contemplative vignette . . .
The woman next door, C., is mentally ill, given to breaks with reality in which she envisions the Anti-Christ and armies of hell demons coming after her. She has no business living on her own, even with the caregiver who cleans and cooks for her but is at best [...]
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
Good Sense? Well . . .
R.: “We’re under a tornado alert! Do you have to run an errand now?”
Me: “I won’t be gone long and besides, I’m prepared.”
R.: “Prepared? How do you prepare to be outside during a tornado alert?”
Me: “I have a camera in my pocket.”
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
Survival Guide to the Supernatural
I cannot take credit for this list. That goes to Angela, whose blog I stumbled upon while doing research for ParanormalDirect today.
Survival Guide to the Supernatural
Do not search the basement, especially if the power has just gone out.
If your children speak to you in Latin or any other language which they should not know, or [...]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Emerging from the Crud
With every hour that passed today I could feel the crud that has dominated my system for the last week moving on about its way. I was still a walking advertisement for Kleenex while I was at the Honda dealership getting the van inspected and the oil changed but by the time I got home [...]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
The Cold Won
Sorry to have checked out for a day. The cold that was slowing me down finally put me down. I’m still not up to par but I’m vastly better than I was at 4 o’clock this morning when the cats were gathered around me in a circle staring with concerned eyes. This either meant they [...]
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Click thumb for larger image.
Note that Andy did have to push a Santa
off the mantle to join the ensemble.
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Christmas Eve
It’s been a somewhat unconventional, rainy Christmas Eve. No, we didn’t throw a wild poker party. There was no dancing on the tables. It was unconventional because it was blissfully undisturbed. Perhaps it was the rain, the fact that it’s a Sunday evening, or just good karma, but we had a little pasta for supper, [...]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Tirmasu Martini
I’ve been in a lot of different bars – one with glass jars containing rattlesnakes on the bar, one where the “door” of the ladies room was a burlap bag, gay bars of both persuasions, but let me just say — for the record — that I’ve never seen anything more frightening than the tiramasu [...]
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Shamelessly Seeking an HP
Okay, sponsored posts are just plan good on the ole pocket book but when I can also indulge my digital photography passion and try to win a 6 megapixel HP camera and photo printer at the same time? Hello? My name is Rana the Shameless Promoter.
Beyond the fact that, as you all know, I photograph [...]
