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Friday, December 31, 2010

Friday Funnies

It’s Friday! 2010 is almost over! Woo!

Do you have plans for the evening? Parties? Good grief, I can’t believe I’m actually excited about New Years. Usually I am so “bah humbug” about the whole thing, more of a “wake me when it’s over” kind of girl. Of course, I still wouldn’t dream of setting foot outside my door on New Year’s Eve – are you kidding? There are drunk people driving around out there! This is Chicagoland! And I have no cable to watch the ball drop, so I guess we’ll just wait for the people around here to shoot off bottle rockets and honk their horns to know when it’s midnight.

Or we could watch the time change over on our new phones. You know, something really exciting like that. See how boring my life really is? If you only knew the struggle I go through to bring you so many fascinating and interesting blog posts!

Shut up! LOL

So, to end the year on a chuckle, here are a couple of jokes. The first one Darc told me the other day and I laughed out loud.

Have a wonderful, blessed, amazing, and safe New Years! I’ll see you on the other side. *hugs*

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The priest decided to give his Rabbi friend a hard time. “When are you going to join us for some fine Christmas ham?” he asked.

The old Rabbi winked and replied, “At your wedding, Father, at your wedding.”

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Headlines

1. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

2. Lack of brains hinders research

3. Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge

4. Two convicts evade noose, jury hung

5. Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say

6. Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years at Checkout Counter

7. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

8. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

9. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

10. Kicking Baby Considered to Be Healthy

11. Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One

12. Stolen Painting Found by Tree

13. Actual Headline: Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft

14. Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case

15. If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last a While

16. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges

17. Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures

18. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Thursday Thankfulness

Thursday Thankfulness: "

It is that time of year, to reflect. On this last Thankfulness post, I have a lot to be thankful for. There was a huge change for me and Darc recently, as most of you know, and that is truly something to be immensely thankful for.

This whole weekly thankfulness exercise has been a good one for me I think. It taught me to take stock of what I had, to realize that where I stand in terms of history is a pretty good place, comparatively. We do live in a great age – technologically, medically, and even just general day-to-day living is vastly better than it was even 50 years ago, let alone a hundred. It’s been good for me to remind myself of that. All too often it’s so easy to fall into that trap of noticing what we lack, rather than what we have.

I am thankful for you, for the friendships I’ve found thanks to blogging and the Internet. You’ve been pretty faithful in joining me here at what I’ve come to think of as my cyber kitchen table, to share of moment of your time with me, and I am thankful for that. It’s been like a little party for me every day, friends stopping over for a little visit and a cuppa.

I am thankful 2010 is over, and that 2011 is beginning – I feel so optimistic I can’t even contain it sometimes. That’s a pretty drastic change for me! I’m not optimistic by nature. I work hard to try to look on the bright side. It’s all a part of my “fake it ‘till I make it” plan.

I don’t know what’s going to become of Thursdays now. Hopefully I’ll think of something. In the meantime, what are you thankful for this week?

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Wednesday Wombat

Wednesday Wombat: "

So, the other day we had some errands to run, library, stuff like that. As I was opening the car door for my son, I happened to look down … and saw that he wasn’t wearing any shoes.

“What the … where are your shoes?! It’s 20° out here and you don’t have any shoes on!”

“Uhm … I forgot, I guess.”

“You forgot? You forgot your shoes? How in the world does one forget shoes, especially when one is walking on frozen snowy concrete in 20° weather?!”

At which point his father dragged him back into the house for his shoes. I swear. *eyeroll*

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Now that my friend has brought over all her unwanted sewing stuff, it’s brought home to me how desperately I need to do some organizing around here. Did I say 7 bins of fabric? Not little bins either, but the big ones you use to store holiday stuff. The B-I-G bins. 7 of them. Full of fabric. 7 giants bins. The stack is about 6’ high, I’m not kidding. She’s a quilter and has always maintained that if I just tried it, I’d love it. See, I’ve always enjoyed making baby quilts by hand, but just a simple 2 piece kind of affair. My friend makes the kinds of quilts that people will pay several hundred dollars for, really complex kinds of designs with tons of tiny pieces. I just don’t have the patience (nor the space!) for all those little pieces. I think I might be able to make some simple designs though.

But I digress. I have all these bins of fabric now, and while my apartment is a decent one, it’s not big enough to just leave 7 giants bins sitting around, and the bins won’t fit in my little storage closet. I’m going to have to break down and get several smaller bins so I can store them, there’s just no other way. I figure if I’m going to do that, I might as well go the whole route and do the whole place. It’s time. I guess that’s sort of like a New Year’s Resolution, right?

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