It’s 10:30 pm on New Year’s Eve and I’ve been watching PBS all night.  Will switch over to NBC at 11, but have been enjoying an evening of music with no commercials.  Tried playing The Sims 2 on my computer, but I think Patrick needs to upgrade my memory ’cause it runs lots slower on […]

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An unusual Christmas is over and I’m back from Seattle…my first Christmas spent away from home in over 30 years.  Things were different, but we had a nice Christmas at Kevin and Soula’s.  Christmas eve was spent in front of a fire, listening to lots of Christmas music.  I made crab rangoon and Soula made […]

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…and I’m almost ready!  Amazing! Finished up my shopping tonight and realized after I got home that I needed one more gift.  Then remembered something I got last year and decided to ‘regift.’  And so I really am finished. The house is completely decorated and mostly clean.  Still have to do laundry, vacuum and clean […]

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Our street won one of 5 awards given by our neighborhood association for the best street decorations!  We had a block party at the block captain’s home in anticipation of the possibility that we would win one of the awards.  Everyone brought drinks and snacks, and we ordered pizzas with the money that we had […]

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Got up and went to the mall today.  First time I’ve been there in 1-2 years.  I wouldn’t have gone, but needed to go to JC Penney and that means going to the mall.  Fortunately Penney’s opened at 6 am today, so going at 8:30 am worked well.  The early birds were gone and the […]

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Had planned to spend tonight watching HGTV and dealing with stuff around the house.  Instead, I wound up dealing with money stuff.  Countrywide (my mortgage company) called with a refinance deal and I decided to do it.  Hopefully I made the right decision. The interest rate is better than what I’ve been paying and is […]

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I’m about to fall asleep and it’s only 8:30 pm.  This was a brutal day, beginning at 9 am with work in the driveway on the Christmas street decoration and finally ending at about 7 pm.  But finally we’re finished.  Still have about half of them sitting in my driveway waiting to be picked up […]

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