At the moment I'm commenting in one journal and posting in another, which is kind of silly...but not all my friends switched over to 
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I decided to start a new, more focused journal - 
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Jepthah's Daughter. - M.L.

All the things that I must leave are good
because you made them. In those first new days
when nothing was something was and the stars were glad
and matter blazed into a song of praise
you what you had made and called it good.

So why must I turn now from all these things?
Take leave of taste and sound and scent and sight?
I do not ( Read more... )

Amy has been singing something like "Tacho Heart Man Whoooooweeee..." for months and I've been completely baffled about where she got it.  But the other day David told me what it was - it's one of the songs he's practicing for church. I bolded the line she apparently seems to like:

We have raised a thousand voices
Just to lift Your holy name
And we ( Read more... )

Health Care.

Today two people on my friend's list had rants about insurance and health care, (one philosophical and one personal) and just yesterday I got a benefits statement from my insurance company, and coverage aside, reading it made about as much sense as some of Amy's artwork.

So after I spent a little while stewing in how frustrated I am with ( Read more... )

I think I may have found a housekeeping routine that actually works for me.  I'm less than a week into it, but I think it might help me get on top of things around here.

I just know that right now I've finished everything I set out to do, my house isn't trashed (isn't immaculate, but sanitary and presentable) and I have an hour to kill before it's ( Read more... )

Do you think I could freeze Pedalyte ( Read more... )

http://www.katu.com/news/entertainment/8381247.html

Since I've been filling my livejournal full of secret geek confessions, I'll admit that I followed the Paris Hilton drama...because the little bit of journalist left in me was interested in how it would be approached and covered, and in the reactions from the audience.

I think this was some sort of ( Read more... )

I have seen Almost Famous so many times that I could probably write out the screenplay without turning on the movie.  Therefore, I've been indoctrinated to break into song every time I hear the chorus of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer."

If you've seen this flick you know exactly what I mean.
Yesterday "Tiny Dancer" was playing when I walked into the ( Read more... )

A classic homemaking faux paux ( Read more... )