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December, 2006
December 6th, 2006
I got my oil tank filled for the first time in my new house yesterday. It was about 1/4th full already and they added about 188 gallons. The cost of oil according to the bill was the same as filling my gas tank yesterday — $2.29/gallon.
Go ahead, do the math.
I spent $40 filling my gas tank yesterday. I owe my oil company $430! Jinkies! Holy Global Warming, Batman!
So, I’m wondering how long that’s going to last.
My house is heated using baseboard heat with water, though the water is heated using
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Tags: heating oil prices, little red house
December 6th, 2006
“The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
– H. L. Mencken
Tags: Quote of the Day
December 5th, 2006
- I cannot seem to keep my eyes open today. I’m doing that head bob thing.
I’ve got to buy a bathing suit by next Tuesday when I start Water Physical Therapy. Apparently, it’s required.- Do I have $1.20 in pennies to get me through 2 more trips through the I-95 toll?
- When will my new toll tag come?
- Those people behind me at the exact change toll were pissed this morning.
- I couldn’t find my mittens this morning when I went
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Tags: Home Depot, the puppy, discombobulated, tired, bathing suit, toll road, I-95
December 5th, 2006
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
Tags: Quote of the Day
December 4th, 2006
I know it’s supposed to be all about the giving, especially this time of year, but as I was making up my Christmas card list last night a sneaky, greedy, nagging little thought occurred to me. Over the years, I have tried to be very generous with my friends; when people moved into apartments and homes and left for college or moved away, I always tried to make up care packages of things they would need for their new adventures. I’ve helped people move; I’ve even helped them move out-of-town. I planned birthdays, bridal showers and Christmas parties and sent
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Tags: dysfunctional friends
December 4th, 2006
O.K. I don’t have any pictures of my great-grandmother. I don’t really have that many pictures of family at all and I’ve been trying to get at least one photo of each family member over the last six or seven months. I haven’t decided where to hang or put all of the family pictures in my new house yet, but it’s important to me to have this anchor for memories.
Anyway, my mother found a really nice one of my great-grandmother taken 15 years ago or so. It looks like she had it done at a Sears or
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Tags: WAL-Mart, photo duplicates
December 4th, 2006
So, my parents departed moments ago. Pugly is back in doggy daycare. My space and my routine are theoretically my own again, even though it’s an entirely new space that isn’t quite sorted out yet which requires developing something of a new routine.
Back to semi-normal, maybe, I guess.
I love my parents. I do. Granted we have some issues. Some conflicting quirks. I think they still see me as twelve a lot of the time. A twelve year old buying her own house, having her own job, trying to live her own life. So they treat me like a twelve year
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Tags: alone time, little red house
December 4th, 2006
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain
Tags: Quote of the Day, Mark Twain
December 3rd, 2006
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”
– Mary Wilson Little
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December 2nd, 2006
“I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how You made them Feel”
– Maya Angelou
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December 1st, 2006
O.K. So I don’t eat much red meat and when I do, I can probably use the soy ground meat substitute found at the grocery or portabella mushrooms for the steaklike recipes.
However, I do eat a lot of chicken breasts. I remember seeing those little mock “chicken” nuggets and I’ve seen mock “chicken” patties, but what’s a weekend chef person like me to do if she wants to alter a favorite recipe to fit her new non-poultry diet?
Is there a good chicken substitute out there and how hard is it to find it? Will I be able to find it
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Tags: vegetarian, chicken substitute, alternative nutrition
December 1st, 2006
I wonder why my brain doesn’t explode from the sheer insanity of contradictory messages I get from my parents sometimes — mainly from my mother.
Mind you, I write that with love and thankfulness for all the help they both have been the last few weeks. I know that I could not have done everything that’s been done regarding the move without their help.
However…with closer, constant proximity, comes more regular contradictory messages and I suspect wrinkle lines on my forehead from the almost permanent perplexed expressions on my face. Certainly the strain on my forehead and brain has not
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Tags: dysfunctional family, move, little red house, credit card debt
December 1st, 2006
225 - The number of Calories you can burn in one hour of walking at a moderate pace. Something to think about while you’re out holiday shopping this year. Shop ‘n Burn, baby!
Source: food & family, holiday 2006.
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December 1st, 2006
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?”
–Jim Rohn
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