Sometimes it's odd to hear favorable comments on my love of scrap at work. I Have the fairy house lo as my desktop wallpaper, and up to Thursday I had'nt heard any comments from any co-workers -- nor did I expect to. In the world I work in if it doesn't concern guns or ammo, no one is going to give anything I do a second look. But I like to dress up my office space, and it makes me feel good to change my desktop with my current favorite LO. All my technical publications are even adorned with siz...
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You know the ones. EBAY and UBID, others like them. I think that the only reason they chose those names was because crapforsale.com had already been taken. I checked. I thought -- hey what the heck, if someone was dumb enough to buy a potato chip because it had the face of Jesus in it, maybe I could unload some of my C---. Oh yeah and what’s up with those "deals" for like a penny or a dollar and then you pay for priority shipping, and then some. And doesn't priority shipping mean they ar...
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This is possibly the longest blog I've ever written, but worth the read. I swear we have had an empty nest for two years now, and I have never had such a tough time keeping house. Ok yeah I've always been on the clutter'd/messy side but this is just ridiculous. I have been trying to clean since I am off for a week. DH is out of town today and out from underfoot, and I'll be @#$%* if the pets haven't tried to sabotage every move I've made this evening. This evening could have been a home alone ...
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I have had my mom’s cockatiel for about a year now…almost to the day. He has changed so much in the last year; he used to be such an aggressive bird. But today he really blew me away. He has had his own array of whistles, songs and sounds but today he repeated one of mine. Sometimes when I feed Charlie I make little kissy sounds. Today he was doing his ever popular boy bird whistle, and then he then followed it up with my kissy sounds. I came running, Charlie; you can have anything ...
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Well, the dog catchers wife called yesterday and asked us to PLEASE come get Prince. We asked her what she needed to get him out and she said that we needed a copy of his shots and license and so on. We expained that we didn't have a current one, so she said we could get one when the vet comes on the 21st. We asked if we had to leave him there until then, to which she exclaimed ( OH NO, that dog is not staying here another night!) Apparently Prince was picked up last Thursday for triyng to atte...
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