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January 17th, 2007
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- Wow, halfway through January already?
- I’m feeling slightly better, just some residual pain in my back and right side but not feeling like I’m splitting in half anymore.
- Pugly is acting very odd lately. I’ve been having to carry him to the car every morning to go to doggy daycare and sometimes I have to catch him to put the leash on him to go outside. Then there’s the weird matter of him not wanting to jump down from the car when we get home. Very strange little dog.
- I’ve been watching HBO’s Rome and I just love love love
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January 12th, 2007
Did you know that having an MP3 player is a “Green” Lifestyle choice?
I was surprised to learn this. Apparently, according to 
It’s Easy Being Green, if you download music rather than buy CDs, you are already making a “greener” lifestyle choice…even if you are only doing it some of the time. It’s still better than the alternative.
CD-Roms and DVDs are made of polycarbonate plastic which is not biodegradable. Think about all of those CDs that came to your
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Tags: recycle, green living, CD-rom, DVD, biodegradable, landfill, crafts, iPod
January 1st, 2007
So, last night I watched the Heroes season so far minus the pilot, which I watched ages it ago. Now I understand what everyone’s been talking about. This series is far better than those series that just try to shock and confuse like Lost and Desperate Housewifes, in my opinion. At the very least, this one feels like it’s going somewhere. It’s definitely the kind of show I like — government conspiracies, government agencies, Dicken’s-like character connections and nearly-mets, betrayals, memory-wipes, nearly unstopable bad guys, love triangles, good guys with tainted pasts, sidekicks who are loyal…not to mention superpowers.
I’m glad
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December 29th, 2006
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So, thinking about my “Things I’d like to do in 2007,” I decided to get a head start.
I took the To Do lists — daily, 2x a week, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, 2x a year, annually, etc. — and assigned the items dates or days of the weeks. I put them all into my Palm Z22; the to do program has a repeating functionality which allowed me to do all sorts of neat things. I am giving myself permission to go
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, knitting, reading, books, housecleaning
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December 27th, 2006
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So this is the time of year when everyone is doing New Year’s Resolutions. I prefer not to do “Resolutions” because they’re generally broken and joked about by the middle of January and forgotten by President’s Day. Then, next January, they’ll be resolved again.
So, instead, I usually try to use the time to reflect and think about the things I’d like to work on in my life, changes, improvements, and so on. I don’t make myself any impossible promises though. I know my limits and I know physics. There’s no way I can lose 60 lbs in 2 months, for example; nor is it likely that I’ll be getting up at 5am any time soon to exercise 3 times a week. 
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, meme, New Years Resolutions, gardening, knitting, debt, weight, health, writing, Green Living, housekeeping, dysfunctional family
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December 20th, 2006
If you haven’t had a chance to catch Patrick Stewart’s new series on BBC America, The Eleventh Hour, you’re missing out. Stewart plays Ian Hood, a physics professor who’s a modern day Sherlock Holmes working for Britain’s Ministry of Science (I think) with a young blonde bodyguard as his Watson, Rachel Young, played by Ashley Jensen.
The show’s first season only had four 90-minute episodes (including commercials) with their third episode having aired this past Monday (9pm EST), but I’m sure BBC America will be re-airing them.
The show itself
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December 7th, 2006
Feel free to try to convince me to change my mind.
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Gone With The Wind — Though I did read the book. I absolutely couldn’t stand Scarlett or Ashley. I did love Rhett Butler, of course, the rogue. Still, I’m not sitting through a technocolor movie of the story.- Pulp Fiction — Gratuitous violence. Well, I think that’s what it is. That’s what it seems to be from the descriptions I’ve garnered from my male friends who’ve seen it and the commercials. It just seems to glorify violence and after seeing Natural Born Killers in the theater, I can’t stomach that kind of glorification anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, movies
October 16th, 2006
I watched The Insider last night. It was one of those movies that’s been traveling up my Netflix queue for awhile. O.K. It’d been on there so long that I’d actually forgotten pretty much what it was about. My vague recollection was that it was about a whistleblower who went to 60 Minutes. That’s a really boiled down summary of what it is.
One man told the truth. Another reported the story. Both paid the price. The Insider — a true tale about a Big Tobacco scientist (Russell Crowe) who exposed industry secrets, and the newsman (Al Pacino) who fought corporate forces that would have squelched the story — offers a glimpse into power, media and money in America. A thought-provoking and thrilling film. [Netflix]
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Tags: The Insider, Netflix, Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plumber, movie, 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace, Jeffery Wigand, Lowell Bergman, tobacco industry
October 16th, 2006
You know what I was wondering the other day? How come you always hear about Ben Afleck’s girl friends/ fiances/ etc, but you never hear about Matt Damon’s?
I mean, they’re in almost every movie the other has made, even in tiny roles. They grew up together. It’s plain odd that we always hear about Ben’s women and never Matt’s escpecially since it’s clear that he’s the one that’s more attractive and more talented.
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October 15th, 2006
So, yesterday I was driving back from getting my hair “done” — where the ladies at the spa were very upset that Pugly was sick at home. Awwwww…
Anyway, so as I was driving I suddenly had this out-of-the-blue thought that I hadn’t seen Overboard in ages. And for some reason I flashbacked to that scene where he first brings her home and he’s pretending to try to get her to “remember” the kids’ names and she guesses that Travis’ name is Roy. Then I was wondering why in hell I was thinking about that. After all
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Tags: Overboard, ESP
October 8th, 2006
While I was watching Memoirs of a Geisha this afternoon, which, by the way, is a must see, I started work on one of those Suss Learn-to-Knit kits. It’s a “Level 0″ where you get to make a multi-color scarf and it comes with a DVD that actually shows close-ups of hands actually doing the stitches you’re going to do in the project. Even though I’d already had a live leason and been practicing on swatches and looking at lots of pictures of instructions, I found the DVD very helpful.
Anyway, there was much pulling out and starting over so it doesn’t look like I did much. I’m having problems with the flipping to the next row…particularly at the end of the first row. Actually my problem has to do with that slip knot at the end of the first row. It always ends up way loose and funky looking for some reason. Any tips on that are muy welcome.
My first few rows look a little too tight but as you can see in the below photo, once I got past the casting and the first few rows, I got a good groove on and started doing some consistant-sized stitches…I think.
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Tags: knitting, Memoirs of a Geisha, Suss Learn-to-Knit kit
October 5th, 2006
Update: For some reason Nov. 9th’s Thursday Thirteen is coming here. It should be going to: Thursday Thirteen Things Most People Don’t Know About Me.
So, here they are in reverse order from watched sometime in the Summer to mailed this very Monday…the last eclectic thirteen movies I watched through my Netflix account and even what I thought about them.
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Casanova
Lasse Hallstrom’s witty romantic comedy stars Heath Ledger as Jacamo Casanova, the infamous and dashing player of 18th century Venice who holds the key to every woman’s heart — all but one, that is. Francesca (Sienna Miller) detests the lothario’s conquering approach to matters of love and rallies against him in her writing … which only makes her more alluring. But to win her over, Casanova must first decide what kind of man he truly is.
I thought this was a rather charming movie, reminescent of Shakespearian mistaken identities and misunderstandings. Certainly it has a touch of Taming of the Shrew but with a less distasteful ending for those of us who thought Kate was a little too submissive at the end of William’s version. 
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September 12th, 2006
- I can’t believe it’s September and I had to put my flannel sheets on my bed last night.
- I am totally buying longjohns this year.
- I’m jealous that my dog is at doggy daycare and gets to play all day today.
- What if I cough in the middle of the CT-Scan? ‘Cuz aren’t you supposed to be like really really still?
- Still haven’t heard from that supposed friend.
I’m very excited that George Lucas is going to release the
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Tags: Star Wars, George Lucus, CT Scan, Mister Bagel, the puppy
September 5th, 2006
I just saw the funniest thing on a sign down the street. Wish I had my camera today.
“Frodo Failed. Bush has the ring.”
Tags: Frodo, George W. Bush, Lord of the Rings
September 4th, 2006
Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast.
Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray’s barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. [“‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed” (BBC News)]
He had a wife and two kids and seemed to have an endless amount of curiousity and energy. He will be remembered and missed.
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August 31st, 2006
We all have these movies. You know what they are. You’re flipping through the channels or the tv guide and there it is. It’s not an Emmy winner. It wasn’t even that great the first (hundred) time(s) you saw it. But you can’t help yourself. You’re drawn to it. Your fingers automatically work the remote control and the next thing you know, you’re sitting mesmerized on the futon with a Big Gulp in one hand and another hand stuffed in a half empty bag of Baked Doritos and the credits are rolling and you can’t remember how you got there…
These are thirteen of mine…
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August 18th, 2006
- Pugly is losing his baby teeth.
- Pugly is starting to learn the S-I-T command finally.
- I have a UTI and it has triggered just about everything else that’s wrong with me to go haywire; I tried to self-medicate with cranberry juice and vitamins for several weeks. I don’t believe the doctor that one dose of 3 days of Bactrim or whatever it is will solve the problem.
- I watched Who Wants To Be A Superhero? or whatever it’s called last night. I was amused by the fact that one of the guys who got kicked off became a Supervillain. I hope Fat Mama
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August 16th, 2006
So, Monday and Tuesday was filled with news of various world leaders patting each other on the back as to who won in the latest Middle East Crisis, this Israel/Hezbollah Conflict.
“We are today before a strategic, historic victory, without exaggeration,” Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised speech that was met with celebratory gunfire in the Shia suburbs of Beirut.
“We emerged from the battle with our heads high, and our enemy is the one who is defeated.”
In an impassioned address to the Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said “the IDF warriors always had the upper hand,” and
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Tags: Israel, Lebanon, NPR, Hezbollah, The Monkees, Ehud Olmert, IDF, Hassan Nasrallah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, George W. Bush, Syria, Bashir al-Assad, Middle East, politics
August 8th, 2006
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Late last week the following exerpt was going around the liberal blogosphere as more evidence of President Bush’s cluelessness from the White House:
A year after his “Axis of Evil” speech before the U.S. Congress, President Bush met with three Iraqi Americans, one of whom became postwar Iraq’s first representative to the United States. The three described what they thought would be the political situation after the fall of Saddam Hussein. During their conversation with the President, Galbraith claims, it became apparent to them that Bush was unfamiliar with the distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.
Galbraith reports that the three of them
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Tags: Iraq, George W. Bush, Peter Galbraith, Spin City, Islam, Sunnis, Shiites
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