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One of my most important New Year's Resolutions this year is the simple directive, "Look for opportunities to help people." Even in just the few first weeks, I am both humbled and truly amazed at how frequently and easily I find these opportunities when I look for them. Some of them have been amazingly easy: Friend is involved in a mentoring ( Read more... )

(That's a play on the Randy Newman song, "Short People," if you wondered.)

My apologies that I haven't given you a real update on life since March.

Ian's home working on his portfolio following the end of his contract job on March 31. His portfolio is coming along great, although slowly -- just the nature of art. He's been working on his final ( Read more... )

A little talk about politics and politicians, specifically on reproductive rights -- and oddly, the one thing I can respect about Sarah Palin.

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Today, 3 days before Christmas, I went into my local Walmart at 2:00 in the afternoon to find it PACKED with last-minute shoppers. While in the peanut butter aisle, some bitter old hag who looked, as a biker friend used to say, "like she had been rode hard and put up wet" was speaking at the top of her voice, clearly searching for someone to listen ( Read more... )

And another thing!His receptionist gives me the heebie-jeebies. She could be the seekrit separated-at-birth twin of my arch-nemesis... only eerily cheerful and burbling over with the glory of Jesus all the time. She just creeps me out ( Read more... )

Today I realized just how much of a geek I am ( Read more... )

At the opposite end of the movie spectrum from the wonderful "Kung Fu Panda" is "Steel Magnolias" which I just finally finished watching for the first time. And the last time. I cannot easily express the depth of my loathing for this movie. Ugh. Why does this film even exist?

Remind me that I really dislike movies based on plays, too.

Yuck!

Session #3 of Early Morning Cardio Death Camp today, and I feel awesome! I mean - tired and achy, but still awesome. We lost two more students, those whom I would have said were respectively the most and least capable. Again, I hope they return. None of the others from the first session did. We're down five ladies since the start already ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God. There is this crazy bird at my apartment that needs to die. No, that isn't me affecting some British cuteness in description of a female neighbor. I mean an actual bird. This thing is crazy. It sings all night from darkness till dawn. All. Damn. Night. It's like one of those car alarms that chooses a few different sounds before ( Read more... )