Last night I parked my car as close to the end of the driveway as possible.  This morning I shoveled in behind--just the bare minimum to be able to pull out into the street.  I came home this evening and my driveway was ploughed.

Only ... no one is here 'cept me and my dog.  Either I have a great neighbour somewhere around here ... or, as Superfly ( Read more... )

When I sent a Christmas card to two people I know to be Jewish, I was not trying to be culturally insensitive.  I just thought the card was cute.

My stomach is reeling from holiday food.  Probably the turkey congee (I eat meat once a year and it is always the leftover turkey and broth boiled the next day to make a thick rice porridgey thing--if you ( Read more... )

I especially like how you can pick him up and throw him around:

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

I know at least gourmet_faerie will appreciate this.

I get to see uggoisme in four and a half days!

Me (to coworkers):  Anyone ever grown squash?

LSM:  Why would anyone want to do that?

Me:  I saved some seeds from a spaghetti squash earlier this year.  My mom planted them and one came up.  So I checked on it a few times, the leaves got really big and there were flowers.  And then we checked today and there's fruit.

Only they look like small ( Read more... )

-----Original Message-----
From: bananastyles
Sent: August 25, 2005 2:14 AM
To: (undisclosed)
Subject: RE: the dane

I am very sorry you had to stop in my hometown--there's actually a much lovelier coffee shop just another fifteen minutes or so down the highway in Sackville, NB.  I have been unable to consume Tim Horton's since catching something ( Read more... )

I've desperately been wanting to buy a house lately.

However, I am useless when it comes to wrapping my head around things like "downpayment," "mortgage," "remortgage," "interest rate" and the like.

I can't even do my own taxes--I admitted, with my face in hands, to a co-worker that I just hand all the receipts to my parents' accountant for easy ( Read more... )

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uggoisme wished to hear about the taking down of the woman now known as Bette Davis.

The coup has not yet begun, but the current situation is this.  Ms. Davis is a fixture in my sleepy little town.  She has managed to run a successful theatre company but completely lacks merit.  You see, for her, theatre does not equal the creative process plus artists.  ( Read more... )