Category: Everyday Stories
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Reimagining yourself is hard work
H.o.p.: “I want to be a turtle…I guess it’s a bad idea…Ow!” Circumstance? Well, one of those small round trampolines isn’t always a trampoline. Who knew it could be a turtle shell? The transformation wasn’t as smooth as H.o.p. thought it would be, but he was determined and now I’m the mother of Turtle Boy.
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Some Georgia Aquarium pics
Went to the Georgia Aquarium today. It is quite an outing. A brother’s wife was with their daughter and picked us up. Then a sister of mine joined us down there with her children. So we were three adults and 8 children. One has to first make reservations. And if you are planning an outing…
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Guess the song
Boingboing has a link to a video of San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffre performing “Ballet Mori”…conducted by the earth. It’s a “musical composition modulated line in real time by the fluctuations of the Earth’s movement as measured by a networked seismometer at the Hayward Fault”. The 3 minute dance was in commemoration of…
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Someone please explain this for me
Weird thing just happened (at least it’s weird to me, in my book) and I wish someone would explain it for me. I was neatening up around here and noticed on a corner table (plastic) a small wadded up piece of tape covered with lint. I picked it up and screamed (yeah) and dropped it…
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First library book
Yeah, I know, all other homeschoolers have their kids using the library like crazy, but until this year H.o.p. firmly believed in never a lender or borrower being. He would have nothing to do with it. Not the library, but the idea of lending and borrowing. What’s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine.…
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Paul Bunyan and Bear Butte and the spiritual heart of these United States
Looks like Tild’s back, Norweganity commenting, Just to kick things off, a contest! She doesn’t specify a prize in her post, but I know we were talking about something along the lines of a free trip to Arak, Iran, for a chance to meet Mohamed ElBaradei and maybe see a spectacular fireworks display. Which is…
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And we talked about Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan with gun Digital painting based on photo by artiist 20 by 13 inches approx Copyright J Kearns 2006 Enlargement Detail. [clear] The photograph on which the painting is based was taken back in the early 90s and I can’t remember where but it would have been either Colorado or Wyoming (definitely someplace with…
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I threw away my paper prayer rug and today I regretted it
Yesterday I threw away the paper prayer rug “Saint Matthews Churches” and Rev. Ewing sent me in the mail. And today I regretted it, realizing the prayer rug would have fit the space above the toilet in the bathroom perfectly. Saint Matthews Churches please send me another paper prayer rug! But make me the second…
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The prayer rug
We used to get this kind of thing in the mail all the time but haven’t since we moved into this building several years ago. So much to our delight the other day we opened the mailbox to find, packed away in a neat little business size envelope, our personal prayer rug. Which comes with…
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Set the Stage for Three Generations of Carllile Women
This better be recorded. What: The Carllile Family When: Sunday, April 30th, 6 pm Doors Where: 800 East Studios (800 East Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30312 off North Highland Avenue, between Freedom Parkway and Randolph (www.800east.com) Cost: $25 for seated, $18 for standing. All ages welcome. Tickets available at www.ticketalternative.com. Carpooling is encouraged. Light food…
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The recalcitrant vacuum
There are worse things than a Eureka Altima. The name of one is Bissel. This is a vacuum to hate. I know. Because I now one one and I hate the thing. It’s a vacuum that wants nothing to do with vacuuming. All it wants is to sit in its box. But its box was…
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I so needed this touch of clarity today
Ok, so the David Hasselhoff Hooked on a feeling video has been around a while. But this. I just saw this today. Why are there no comments? Why has no one rated this? I so get this. The Hasselhoff “Hooked on a Feeling” video suddenly makes perfect sense. And not just perfect sense but perfectly…