I've discovered the REAL little drummer boy.  This little Polish guy has more rhythm than I could ever hope to have and he doesn't even have his fine motor skills yet (he's FOUR years old!).  I'm so jealous.


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This is pretty much the best thing I've seen all month. Love. It.


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Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
Hope you all have wonderful days with your loved ones and that you take a little time out to appreciate all you're blessed with.


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Not a whole heck of a lot is going on, but I figured I should update before people start combing ditches in search of my body, because, clearly, that could be the only explanation for such a blogging drought.

My weekends seem to have been overtaken by Mundane Things. I've gotten a lot of necessary albeit boring things done, but I still don't have ( Read more... )

Today, as I slowly traversed the typical half-mile backup on the offramp to the 84, I noticed that a policeman had pulled someone over on to the shoulder ( Read more... )

I haven't written in a month and a half. And I'm only writing now because I have more animal pictures to share. I'll write a real entry someday.


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Not only does Merlin refuse to lie in the nice pet bed we got him, but he FLOUTS the idea by straddling his body between a folding table and part of the windowsill. Right next to the comfy, soft bed.  Look at that face: "Comfortable or not, I'll lie where I CHOOSE, thankyouverymuch."


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My highschool "twin" got married this weekend. We have about the same build and (back then) almost exactly the same length and color of hair, so when seen from the back, even our own fathers got us confused.  So I drove down to LA with a couple friends (one of whom divulged that she's PREGNANT!!) and braved a ridiculously hot and muggy weekend to ( Read more... )

So 4-5% percent of my IRA has disappeared in the last 3 days. It can't take much more of this crappy market (bear or bull? they both sound bad to me).

Thanks, Israel. Way to freak out the entire world.

Reasons my day was awesome:

1) Even though my parking space keeps getting stolen by this stupid red Honda, I got it today because she left on an errand right as I was getting back from mine. Bwa ha ha!

2) I found the ring that I thought was forever lost. Apparently "forever lost" = "hiding under my driver's seat."

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