My grandfather (mom's dad) passed away in his home at age 91 on 4/12 ( Read more... )

I am firmly convinced that the average intelligence of the people who post comments on YAHOO! articles is at least 25% lower than that of pretty much everyone else on the web.

I'm not much into TV. I regularly watch only about 2 hours a week until NFL season. Sometimes I do turn CNN or the History Channel on in the kitchen when I'm cooking or clearing up, but I wouldn't call that watching.

One of the things I do watch is True Blood. I adore that show and I go to unnatural lengths to ensure that we are home, that dinner ( Read more... )

Dear Lady-Who-Runs-the-Sewing-Shop ( Read more... )

As if this winter hadn't been a big enough pain in the ass, I awoke to a nice sheet of ice on everything. (In all fairness, the forecast warned of this!)


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Inspired

I've heard this word at least a dozen times already today. Can we please stop now? I mean, there are, what ... a quarter-million words in the English language? PICK ANOTHER WORD ALREADY.

And with that, I say my New Year's resolution was to start using this journal. So I'm late, but I'm still using it!!! That totally counts.

Every NFL team I favored today had to LOSE.

Dammit. Dallas better pull through tomorrow or I'm going to be on a serious downer.

Wow ... Grandpa got his driver's license renewed. On his 90th birthday.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this.

Let me see ... a national health care system like they have in Britain is socialist but shouting out during the President's speech as if you were at a meeting of Parliament is not?

On the other hand if we can't have rational dialogue and reasonable compromise, I for one will find the victory all the sweeter if we drag them behind our hybrid cars ( Read more... )

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