Proof that you can buy just about anything

August 8, 2008

I am a clip art junkie (you should see the stack of books I have), so I subscribed a long time ago to the email service from Dover Publications, probably the most well-known clip art publisher. They send me weekly samples by email, along with notifications of new publications. I am a devoted fan of […]

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Reason #174 I'm going to hell

August 6, 2008

Tonight we’re having a marvelous dinner of frozen pizza. It’s just that kind of day. I turned on the oven to preheat it. Then I took the pizza out of the box and left it on the counter, still in the plastic wrapper, and went to my office to take my turn at Scrabble on […]

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Flipping over Flipping Out

August 6, 2008

Hi, Cox Communications? Yeah, I’m gonna need a refund for the parts of the season finale of Flipping Out that I missed last night because of your lousy cable reception. Excuse me? Yes, yes, I’ll hold. Does anyone else watch this show? I cannot get enough of it. Jeff Lewis, an obsessive-compulsive L.A. real estate […]

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Bootstraps

August 5, 2008

Today I drove past the airfield in town, a busy municipal airport, with a steady flow of takeoffs and landings. The runways are situated where two main streets make a corner, so that when we approach the intersection from the east, we often see planes flying low and smooth over our car, casting us in […]

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Lord, it is (finally) time

August 3, 2008

Before anything else, I have to tell you that for the first time ever I finally beat my sister, Ducky, at Scrabble. You have no idea how excited I am! (Or I was, until I realized that it took me almost four decades to beat my sister at Scrabble. Hey, she’s smart.) _______________________________________ In case […]

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Falling rock

August 1, 2008

My quote of the day on my Google homepage was this, from Appolinaire: “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” And you know what? He was probably right. Sunshine, butterflies, lalalalala. Know what else? Appolinaire, god rest his beautiful soul, can bite me. I get it. […]

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Inkblot

July 30, 2008

First, I saw this idea at Flutter’s, and she got it from Chani. And then I saw it at Slouching Mom and at Kyla’s blog, The Journey (a new find for me), too. Even though most of us get very personal on our blogs, there’s little chance (outside of meeting in real life) to see […]

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Things that make me laugh, after a certain hour

July 30, 2008

All evening, I’ve been wading through online real estate listings. Which, it turns out, have funny words in them like rearyard. I pulled this straight from the listing: RESORT-STYLE REARYARD WITH ALL AMENITIES I guess that because it’s resort-style, with all those amenities and everything, it must be fancier than a regular backyard. (Who knows, […]

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Handed down

July 29, 2008

This afternoon, I was at my desk in my office when Girl walked in and said, “Look at me, Mommy.” I turned, and there she was, wearing a sweater the color of sky. It was a little big on her, and the sleeves hung just below her fingertips. In another year or so, I’d say, […]

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Be right back…

July 28, 2008

I’m just popping in to say that I’m still here and alive. The weekend was busy, and was overshadowed by my dad’s eventful and perplexing visit to the hospital (he’s still there). They still don’t really know what’s wrong, but we’re hoping tomorrow brings more, and better, news. So, I’m sorry if I haven’t visited […]

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