I’ve Been Thanking #4

This is February’s Thanksliving page:
Friday, February 1. Water. Rained like crazy today, very hard for a very long time. Rain has never been depressing to me, the way it is to some. I find it refreshing, renewing. Having visited another website where someone was being thankful (I went to put [...]

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My Gifted Child

Sometimes I worry about the values we’re imparting to LG. Jif and I are not materialistic. You might not know this from the clutter that sometimes overtakes our domicile. But it’s true. Things and stuff are not of much interest to us. In spite of a post or two here [...]

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Sunday Post

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.” – Richard Bach
Romans 12:4-8

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Don’t hate me because I’m stupid . . .

I did a really dumb thing. A dumb internet thing, which, in my experience, multiplies the dumbness of a thing exponentially.
I filled out an online dating questionnaire. No, I don’t want to date (anyone but Jif). Goodgod, no. I just know all these people, personally and professionally, who do want a [...]

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Partying with Minors Redux . . . AND A DARE!

This is an amplified Thanksliving post. If you’ve been around a while, you know that in another life, I’d like to be a kids’ party planner. LG’s parties, while not huge, are known for being the funnest. We’ve done the Mall Scavenger Hunt, The Mystery, and the wild sleepover. Before I [...]

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Sunday Post

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

Proverbs 24:16
Micah 7:8

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In Keeping with Tradition

It’s late in the day, but I felt I needed to dress up Legolas in his Valentine’s gay apparel, because . . . that’s just how we roll up in here.
Hope your Valentine’s Day night is shaping up nicely.
And happy V-Day, too.

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Official Diagnosis

It’s WTF Disease. That is to say, I saw an expert in ALS who said that while it is understandable that ALS would be a concern, given my symptoms, the fact that I have good days with remission of some symptoms tells her that I do not have ALS. (Reminder — there’s no [...]

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About Mad Gabs

Mad Gab is a board game — well, there’s no board, but it’s a boxed game with cards, a timer, etc. — usually played in teams, in which you try to solve a word “puzzle.” From the instructions: “The puzzles consist of unrelated words that, when read aloud, sound like familiar phrases, names, [...]

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Biscuit Friday ~ Thinks he’s a playah

Biscuit always knows when we are playing something, and always believes that we should stop whatever we are playing and play with him. It used to always be that he’d drop his ring on us when we were trying to play a game, but he got some new balls for Christmas (go ahead, make [...]

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