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Bottles of watery shame

January 6, 2011

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I’ve been trying to put away/get rid of a few things in the basement every day this January. (It’s a job Lloyd could accomplish in one hour, but I’m enjoying the aimlessness of the challenge.) Anyway, today I moved the opened case of plastic water bottles to a shelf, instead of where it has been [...]

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Stuck

January 5, 2011

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Here I sit at my computer, Trying to think of what to write. It wasn’t a very interesting day, many things wrong, not much right. My thumb is cut, but too gross to show, Dinner was only toast and eggs. The movie was stupid, I am sleepy. The creative bucket is dragging the dregs. This [...]

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Lloyd is great.

November 9, 2010

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(…gives us chocolate cake. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?)\ There is nothing better than coming home from a long day and discovering that Lloyd has tidied up the entire downstairs! Thank you, Lloyd! Thank you! I was so impressed that I started a load of laundry and did some tidying of my own. Then I took a [...]

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So pretentious.

October 27, 2010

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I think that’s how you spell that. I was looking for a copy of music that I stole borrowed in college, and went digging through the Suitcase O’ Music. I didn’t find it, but found some stuff from when I was in composition. I was arguably the worst one in that class, and I think [...]

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The Kitchen Gang

October 25, 2010

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Peggy asked about the Beer Lizard, so here’s the story. Beer Lizard has been a member of the family for I don’t know how long. Back when we used to have the Fourth of July cookout at our house, Beer Lizard would hang by his tail from a tree – at the ready to open [...]

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Zippy zip codes

September 30, 2010

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I had to put addresses on some things today, and it reminded me of this cool zip code map I saw a long time ago. I had to dust off my Google searching skills to try and find it, but it was worth it. Go play with it and zero in on your ‘target’. I [...]

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