That’s who I’ll be tomorrow evening as the guests begin to arrive for Patrick’s “Dead Alive” party. Think I’ve got just about everything I’ll need for the costume–or Patrick’s got things that I don’t have like black nailpolish and lipstick. Should be fun. Gotta get up early tomorrow to clean up the house and make […]

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I’m almost afraid to go to bed tonight. You see it’s pouring down rain again and, while the roofer says everything is patched, I thought that to be the case when the rain started last week. But it wasn’t. I feel like I used to feel years ago, debating whether I would get lucky and […]

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Something (or someone) is posting comments to my website every night! I believe Patrick called it a “bot.” Anyhow, the name they use is either Online Casino or Free Online Casino, and they post just random comments that are obviously from some kind of a canned program. I’ve gone through and deleted them twice now, […]

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I’m currently watching the National League playoffs (final game) and St. Louis is winning (top of the 8th, ahead 4-2) over Houston. This is good as I despise any team from Texas. I’ll be rooting for Boston in the World Series no matter who they face. Why not? They’ve not won since 1918, so it […]

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My roof is leaking in the family room! Right down the middle of the back portion of the room…for those who have seen the room, it’s the lower portion of the roof that is covered in wood slats. Fortunately, it’s dripping in the middle…so far. That means I haven’t had to do a massive moving […]

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In honor of all the new Lakers (and a couple of “old” ones), I’ve replanted my official Laker garden out front! Knowing we would probably have rain this weekend, I got all the purple and yellow (and a few white) chrysanthemums planted in the bed under my new bay window yesterday. They look quite beautiful, […]

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Yes, amazingly enough, it’s raining! And that’s wonderful! Part of my glee is the result of not having seen rain for probably 6 months so it feels extremely refreshing to see everything outdoors covered with sparkling droplets of water. The best part, though, is that NONE of that water is inside my house! This is […]

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I’ve looked at all the various polls and have heard the newscasts, and all seem to agree that John Kerry won the debates. If that’s the case, how is it that so many people across the country still favor George Bush? All I can figure is that the majority of GW’s supporters are not being […]

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The Lakers lost the first preseason game of the year. It was a really strange game…I couldn’t recognize most of the players and it was hard to think of them as the Lakers. Kobe was great–35 points–but no one else played that well. I expected more from Lamar Odom, but maybe as the season goes […]

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…and I finally dropped at about 8 pm tonight resulting in falling asleep on the couch and missing the end of “Designed to Sell.” Oh well, not like I need to know what to do to sell my house someday–I’m doing all the important things right now! I hit all the usual shopping spots this […]

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About a half hour into the Presidential Debate and Dubya seems to be floundering. Kerry is very well spoken and Bush seems to be doing a lot of ums and not making any definitive statements. Bush’s responses are to say that everybody is doing a lot of good work while Kerry is giving facts. Some […]

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…and the window construction will be finished! I will have mountains of painting, cleaning and reorganizing to do, but at least I’ll be able to start doing it and know that I won’t have to do it all over again the following week. Got some great plants to put out front under the new bay […]

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I’ve spent the entire weekend working…and I’m exhausted! Had to paint all the stucco patches around all the new windows as well as the trim around the garage window. As long as I was painting, I finally painted the fence next to the garage on the south side of the house. We rebuilt it over […]

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So Patrick gave me the ability to have pictures on my website today! Hooray! Click on the photo gallery link on the left side of the site to go to the pictures. Choose one of the albums at the beginning to see the photos. For those of us who are novices with manuevering around websites, […]

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Trip to the vet is finished and Murphy only lost 2 teeth! He seems to be feeling fine and is happy to be back home. I think he’s still a big groggy since his eyes appear to be a little watery. He also doesn’t seem to be as lively as normal but I have no […]

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The new doors and one of the family room windows are installed! The contractor put in two large 4×4 pillars in which to mount the new doors. Doing this lifted up the sagging roofline by about 2 inches in the center! He’s doing a great job in that he is also replacing old rotted wood […]

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I love all the cool stuff at Home Depot, but I am developing a hatred for that place as well. I’ve purchased room darkening window shades twice so far and they still don’t fit! I’ve checked my measurements and each time the clerk says she’s cutting them to match what I’ve given her, and each […]

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Another weekend, another list of “to-do’s.” Would really like a weekend where I could sit and play video games (haven’t even looked at ‘Harvest Moon’ yet) but just have too much to deal with right now… The windows are still going in, but very slowly. The bay window is in (in my bedroom), but the […]

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Last night the contractor called and said there would be a change of plans…he needed me to move all the furniture that was near the front window of my bedroom ’cause they were going to rip everything out and install the bay window today! So, I started packing up all the doo-dads sitting around my […]

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The amount of cleaning that needs to be done is astronomical and I really don’t know what to do first. I’m more frustrated than I’ve been in a long time. Guess I’ll start in the kitchen since that will allow me to move all the stuff back that’s currently sitting on the dining room table. […]

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