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2 weeks is too long for my husband to be gone. 3 weeks is not long enough for my mom to visit. The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas blew the top of my head off yesterday. Note to self: wear hats. Went to see Mamma Mia! tonight. Pierce Brosnan doesn’t look comfortable singing, and Meryl Streep kind of weirded me out. Best part: the boys in the swim flippers dancing on the pier. I think I’ll double that 20-clove garlic chicken recipe for the dinner party on Friday night. Marie!! Thank you for the pumpkin carving set and...

Maybe I should try iron supplements. I am soooooooo tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired. Or maybe it’s just hibernation time. Whatever. *plops down* I read the BEST book yesterday. Haven Kimmel’s The Used World. I can’t stop thinking about it and now I want to go back and re-read all the rest of her excellent books. So far, I have not been disappointed in any of the 6 used CDs I ordered a couple of weeks ago on Amazon, except for a few songs on one of them. Considering that, with one exception (not the same one), I bought them all on the basis...

Swiped in its entirety from Meg! Song you love: Word you love: Academic subject you love: Hobby you love: Type of baked good you love: Type of sky you love: Beverage you love: Vacation you love: Restaurant you love: Way of getting around that you love: Person you love: Room in your home (or ideal home) you love: Movie you love: Book you love: City you love: Future plan you love: Form of communication you love: Junk food you love: My list is first in the comments, now let’s see yours!

Things I am tired of: darkness rain cold hands my daughter’s whining Things that never seem to end: laundry my to-do list at work winter the weight struggle Things I want to eat but don’t have in the house: tempura maki reese’s fast break bars my dad’s chervil soup (I could make it, though) pie Things that made me laugh today: an email from a colleague after I solved a problem for him, that said in huge letters: I LOVE YOU!!!!! my son’s verbose and swenglish explanation of a game in gym class called spookball the outfit my daughter had...

I was a bit flabbergasted and then completely bowled over today to get a message from my friend Marilyn telling me she’d given me a ROAR award. This is a new award to me, I hadn’t heard of it before. Being the recipient of A ROAR FOR POWERFUL WORDS award comes with some stipulations. I am supposed to share 3 writing tips and then pass on the award to three more bloggers worthy of recognition and esteem. Frankly, this sounds like a meme to me. Curious to find out where this award originated, I started following links back. Quite quickly...

Things I Could Be Doing: sleeping reading packing up Christmas decorations unloading the dishwasher editing 2007 working on the inheritance inventory updating my library list online shopping folding cartons & packaging for the recycle bin cleaning figuring out what to take to the meet & greet tomorrow figuring out the menu for the dinner I’m hosting in 2 weeks setting up bill payments editing photos for family website uploading photos to AWC website writing an interesting, thought-provoking blog post Things I Am Doing: none of the above

TV Shows I’ve Never Seen A Single Episode of Lost Desperate Housewives Grey’s Anatomy The Bachelor Heroes Twin Peaks Survivor (but I have seen some of the original Swedish version) The Amazing Race Big Love Project Runway Ugly Betty Pushing Daisies The Anna Nicole Show 24 The Apprentice Dawson’s Creek Gilmore Girls Judging Amy The Osbournes The Simple Life Six Feet Under The Wire The O.C. 21 Jump Street The View Really. Not one. TV Shows I’ve Seen 5 or Less Episodes of Temptation Island (1) The X-Files Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Office (2) Scrubs (1) The Sopranos The...