I’m feeling shitty tonight.  Grey’s Anatomy was extremely depressing and ER is a rerun.  I’ve got way too much to do at work and my house is a mess.  Yet I came home tonight and soaked in a hot bath and then spent the evening playing solitaire on the computer and watching tv. Gotta be an […]

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Am sitting here watching the Golden Globe awards and am so bored I am about ready to fall asleep.  Am not all that impressed with the winners or their acceptance speeches.  In the past this was the awards ceremony that was really funny and more of a party.  So far it’s just a bunch of […]

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The temps are supposed to get down into the high 20’s tonight.  Don’t know how cold it is right now, but it feels as cold as I can ever remember it getting in So.Cal. Last night I washed the comforter from Murphy’s doghouse so that he would have somewhere to sleep today that was warm […]

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Kevin called last night to report that it took him 4 hours to get home from work yesterday–because they had 6″ of snow and it was still coming down!  He had to park his car blocks away from his house as he couldn’t get up the hill due to all the snow and ice.  Fortunately, […]

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Had a meeting today at work with one of the reps from the company that manages our pension plan.  He directed me to their website where I could look at the fund where my $$$ are invested.  Turns out I own shares of Google, Microsoft, Lowe’s, Target, and a bunch of other really good stocks!  […]

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The weather has been fabulous!  Temps in the mid-80’s and no humidity.  Unfortunately it’s all gonna end tomorrow when a weather system moves in and will drop the temps into the 50’s with the possibility of rain at the end of the week.  Oh well.  It was nice while it lasted. Not sure how January is […]

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It started at 1:40 am this morning.  I know ’cause it woke me up and I looked at the clock to see what time it was, not believing that I had only been asleep for two hours.  I thought one of the cats was scratching at something in the bay window.  Instead it was the Christmas wreath […]

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Patrick and Veronica came over on the 1st for our pork and sauerkraut dinner.  And then Vanessa stopped by later in the evening for a few leftovers.  Spent most of the day prior to dinner watching the Rose Parade a couple of times.  It was a great parade this year–especially when the rocketman on the Oklahoma float […]

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It’s 10:30 pm on New Year’s Eve and I’ve been watching PBS all night.  Will switch over to NBC at 11, but have been enjoying an evening of music with no commercials.  Tried playing The Sims 2 on my computer, but I think Patrick needs to upgrade my memory ’cause it runs lots slower on […]

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An unusual Christmas is over and I’m back from Seattle…my first Christmas spent away from home in over 30 years.  Things were different, but we had a nice Christmas at Kevin and Soula’s.  Christmas eve was spent in front of a fire, listening to lots of Christmas music.  I made crab rangoon and Soula made […]

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…and I’m almost ready!  Amazing! Finished up my shopping tonight and realized after I got home that I needed one more gift.  Then remembered something I got last year and decided to ‘regift.’  And so I really am finished. The house is completely decorated and mostly clean.  Still have to do laundry, vacuum and clean […]

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Our street won one of 5 awards given by our neighborhood association for the best street decorations!  We had a block party at the block captain’s home in anticipation of the possibility that we would win one of the awards.  Everyone brought drinks and snacks, and we ordered pizzas with the money that we had […]

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Got up and went to the mall today.  First time I’ve been there in 1-2 years.  I wouldn’t have gone, but needed to go to JC Penney and that means going to the mall.  Fortunately Penney’s opened at 6 am today, so going at 8:30 am worked well.  The early birds were gone and the […]

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Had planned to spend tonight watching HGTV and dealing with stuff around the house.  Instead, I wound up dealing with money stuff.  Countrywide (my mortgage company) called with a refinance deal and I decided to do it.  Hopefully I made the right decision. The interest rate is better than what I’ve been paying and is […]

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I’m about to fall asleep and it’s only 8:30 pm.  This was a brutal day, beginning at 9 am with work in the driveway on the Christmas street decoration and finally ending at about 7 pm.  But finally we’re finished.  Still have about half of them sitting in my driveway waiting to be picked up […]

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I’m sick of Christmas shopping already.  Haven’t seen anything in any of the ads that looks good and tried surfing the net tonight with no success.  Just can’t come up with anything spectacular.  Looked at both Kevin’s and Soula’s Amazon Wish List, but it seems they both want “same old, same old”–books, computer games and […]

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“What is ‘it’?” you say.  Some kind of a big expense that hits right before Christmas.  This is the fourth year in a row in recent memory.  The past three years it’s been Loki needing surgery for an abscess.  So far, I haven’t had to deal with any vet expenses. *knock on wood* This year […]

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Lots to do today, but it’s going to be a wonderful day.  The sun is shining and the temp is supposed to be around 70–a great California Thanksgiving! Baked the pumpkin pies last night and the turkey is soaking in the brine mixture.  Still have to do a bit of cleaning (vacuuming and a bit […]

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I’m so glad I decided to take tomorrow as a vacation day.  Got lots of cleaning to do and am relieved I won’t be doing it late tomorrow night and early Thursday morning.  Went crazy at work getting most everything done that really had to be done.  Still have lots to do before the end […]

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Spent almost all day Saturday working on the street Christmas decoration.  Painted the word ‘Peace’ more times than I want to remember, sponge painted, removed painter’s tape and stacked 34 decorations under the shade structure. Had good intentions for getting something done around the house Saturday night, but wound up soaking in a hot tub, […]

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