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"I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin', now the days go by so fast..."
It's gone from "less than five years" to "1-3 months" to "just a few days ( Read more... ) -
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So, by saying that my grandfather's got less than five years left, they really meant "one to three months." My deddy was the one who called and told me, and he was all upset and crying (it's my mother's father who's dying, by the way). He and his side of the family are rather well suited for being the bearers of bad news ( Read more... ) -
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We should go to Christmas on the River this year.
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"New York eyes, Chicago thighs..."
I absolutely must teach myself how to knit, so I can make this. The women in my family crochet, they can't knit. Dur. Knitting looks really hard, though.
It would give me something to do with my hands (I'll give you something to do with your hands. Har har har.) while I watch Adam do stuff on the 360 in the evenings... instead of being weird ( Read more... ) -
"If God takes life, he's an Indian giver..."
Title of an email in my spam mailbox...
"Beat her womb with your new big rod, so that she knows who wears the pants!"So many things wrong with that sentence. So many ( Read more... ) -
"And I can't forget your style and your cynicism..."
I cannot find a Jackson Pollock painting I'm looking for, and it is driving me batshit insane. I know it was from the Life article profile on him in August of 1949, but the friggin' site will NOT let you search articles, just covers. They need to take a hint from Time and make their articles accessible so people like me won't become homicidal. ( Read more... ) -
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Few things put a smile on my face and a spring in my step like Death Threat Mondays. -
"Nobody knows it, but you've got a secret..."
Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf is amazingly engaging, easy to understand, and beautiful in its own right. I am impressed. I've read the poem four times now, and this is the first translation that I've read that hasn't put me to sleep ( Read more... )
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