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       Marriage is love.

I fully support the right of adults to love who they will, as long as it only involves adults. It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I didn't make that choice. There is not enough love and happiness in the world, and if two people find each other and make each other happy, then I'm glad.

It's snowing. In Texas, in February. What's more, it snowed most of last night, and a lot of it stuck. I haven't been out to measure it, but it looks like at least an inch and possibly two inches of fluffy snow on the ground. I also see icicles hanging from the roof, about 3-4 inches long. While this is a very small accumulation for many ( Read more... )

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Today, all day, I am supposed to pee in a collection cup and transfer it into a jug, which I am supposed to keep cold. Thus, I have an ice chest in my bathroom. Tomorrow I turn in the urine I've collected over 24 hours and then I get to have blood drawn. Oh, joy. And the day after THAT I get to go to the hospital for some testing. Words cannot ( Read more... )

My daughter graduated with honors on Sunday. She is now the proud possessor of a Bachelor's of Science in Business, with emphasis on information technology. I guess "emphasis" is the new way of saying "minor". It's been a long haul, and she changed her major once, but she's managed a GPA of over 3.8. She's moderately dyslexic, but she's worked ( Read more... )

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At the age of 46, I have picked out two chairs completely on my own. I picked one out last year, for my dayroom/computer room. It's an office chair. Yesterday, my husband and I went shopping for a new mattress, and we settled on one. Like most of our furniture decisions, it was a compromise. I left my husband to settle things up in the back of ( Read more... )

I posted my recipe for potato soup in someone ELSE'S LJ, so I guess I should post it in my own. Usually I have leftover baked potatoes, but if I don't, I will peel and dice potatoes, and then cook them in chicken stock ( Read more... )