Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Meet Miss Cordelia

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A lot has happened since my last real blog journal post. My father had a successful battle with cancer, and my youngest brother survived a...

I'm back...again...for awhile...

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After taking a little hiatus from blogging, I am back. As my previous post I wrote about getting sucked ...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Back to the real world and things I love

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Facebook can be like a self-imposed prison sentence if you let it. I love the fact that I found so many friends from my past that I have ...

I got addicted to Facebook...

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But I think I am growing bored with it. I have been spending less and less time on Facebook and more time getting back to my blogs and w...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

LOL!

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Christmas 2011

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It was a very quiet Christmas this year with Jeff and Mary not being here. But we had a nice visit with the Karr family (none of them have ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Honey badger don't care, honey badger don't give a $hit!

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LOL! Mary posted his on FB!

Working woman

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How time flies! I hadn't realized I hadn't posted anything here since last November! Since then a lot has changed. Hubby has a new j...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Job hunting

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Time seems to be whizzing by, and the race to find jobs for my husband and I before the doors close on his present company is getting more i...

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. - Jerry Garcia

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I have made up my mind that I will no longer choose the lesser of two evils. From here on out, I will choose and follow what I believe to be...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

Just as my husband predicted

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My husband told his company several years ago that if they sent their production to China the business would decline and eventually bring on...

Glad election's over

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I am so glad that the mid-term elections are over. What a mud-slinging fiasco the ads were! None of the ads tell us what the candidate sling...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Pills

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Dog days of summer

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This has got to be one of the longest, hottest, most humid summers I have experienced in my life. Fortunately, we have air conditioning (tho...

Key Largo and Key West

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We recently went on vacation to the Florida Keys and I loved it. I anticipated heat and mugginess, but the weather, while it was very warm, ...
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Monday, August 09, 2010

Our 35th anniversary

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Today is our 35th wedding anniversary. When I was young and looking ahead, 35 years seemed like such a long time. It doesn't seem that l...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Virginia Beach vacation

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Jon and I just got back from a much needed vacation at Virginia Beach. On the way we stopped overnight near Pittsburgh and met up with an ol...

Lovin' Lady Gaga

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I find her videos interesting and bizarre at the same time.
Friday, April 02, 2010

Diagnosing myself

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I started having these irregular heartbeats back in January. When they first started happening I thought oh well, palpitations again. They c...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Facebookin'

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I've been doing too much Facebooking lately and not paying enough attention to my blogs. Well, I am going to try to be better about that...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

LOST

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Anyone else lost in this last season of LOST? I am becoming impatient. So far, not one question has even remotely been answered. What are t...

I'm back

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Was away from my online journal here for awhile, but now am back and catching up with some posts. I have started the new year with more medi...
Friday, January 01, 2010

Happy New Year!

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Sweet Home Chicago!
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2009

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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were both good times for us this year. For me and my immediate family, the holiday season is a time for trad...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Our new village hall

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Here is a photo taken by a friend of the new village hall in our town. It's built in a commons area with library, orchestra shell, and o...

Waynesville NC in Winter

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This photo is reminiscent of the scenes in It's a Wonderful Life. Actually, it is the main street going through Waynesville, North Carol...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Snow, wind, ice and sub-freezing temps

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This image is pretty much how everyone's yards look around us. The winds were really bad yesterday, howling and making the siding buzz i...
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Star Wars in Concert

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We went to see the Star Wars in Concert at Chicago's United Center this past Sunday and was an excellent performance of music, lights an...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Warm Cinnabon Coffee Cake

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This stuff is incredible. Delectable! It was our dessert tonight. Warm from the oven.

Snowflakes in the air

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It didn't snow as much as in these photos, but it will come. There were pretty tiny snowflakes floating in the crisp, cold air as my hus...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

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Just want to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of my friends here. Tomorrow we won't be doing a whole lot of anything. I am making a turkey ...

Mayberry

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From November 13th through the 22nd we took a ten-day vacation first to see our daughter in Richmond and to see her concert with the Richmon...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Zombieland on Halloween

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Each year I have written here and on my other blogs about how much I loathe Halloween. I have admitted that I am a Halloween Scrooge. It...

Virtual cooking, home decorating and shopping and farming...I am exhausted!

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Friends and readers, I apologize for such a long delay in posting but seems I have acquired a weird addiction to virtual cooking and apartme...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Cajun bean soup

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Autumn has blown in and cold weather is upon us. The winds were howling last night and I thought the roof was going to be lifted up into the...

Travels to Richmond

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Went to visit our daughter in Richmond last week and help her move into her new house where she is living with a couple of new people. A you...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Fickle washing machine

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Yesterday afternoon I carried a load of towels downstairs and put them into the washer and closed the door. I then poured in the liquid dete...

Muse - Bliss

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A band Helga got me to listen to...awesome video. Reminds me of my blogname. Thanks Helga!
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Happy Birthday to me....

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I am now the age of the average speed limit. 55 How did I get this old? Where did all the time go? I like the way Blogger puts a birthday c...

It's always something

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We have had cable internet and television for some time now and we went with the cable because we didn't want bulky boxes and stuff sitt...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Labor Day weekend

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I hope everyone is having a fun and relaxing weekend and hope those of you who have to work will find time to fit in some enjoyment, too. W...