Tag: living
member name: anna g. vanwinkle
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March 14, 2006 11:48 PM EST --
While I take the time to feed a colony of perfectly sane feral cats - I've noticed that the wild strays are oddly free of neurotic behaviors.
This leads me to believe that our cats pick up all their . . .
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February 23, 2009 09:48 AM EST --
I have to go out and find a nursing home today for my dad. The intent is to find the one with the least number of infectious diseases, close to home and good enough, that if it is his desire to stay, . . .
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May 06, 2006 06:51 PM EDT --
1. I wish I had been as smart as I thought was when I could have really used the brain power.
2. I wish I'd been a natural joiner.
3. I wish I had found a direction in life at age 18 like all my . . .
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June 16, 2006 01:52 PM EDT --
My dad is the original Mr. Fix It. He's known world wide for his staunch snobbery of duct tape and those who use duct tape in the process of fixin' anything.
He's from . . .
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December 19, 2006 09:33 PM EST --
It's really been a weird season, and while I could forge on and write something holidayish, the weird is sticking to me more than the ribbons and bows. I'll forge ahead.
I have this relationship . . .
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May 11, 2006 06:10 PM EDT --
"Get your pens and paper ready; List three things you love about yourself you have 30 seconds."
(This was the lead out question at a conference I attended last week)
While the "100 . . .
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January 24, 2007 11:54 AM EST --
Yesterday, Alex F. - a relative newcomer to Gatherland mentioned in the comment post to the article about my Not So Nice Niece, that I must come from a horrible lot of wretched people. . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
This week I was in a store and caught off guard by a mother and her about 8 year old daughter in the midst of a public display of fit throwing and abuse.
The child cried and rubbed her . . .
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November 20, 2006 11:45 AM EST --
(Please share your Thanksgiving Traditions in the comment box!!)
Everyone does something at Thanksgiving that's just a little bit odd. OK, maybe not. Anyway, here's my dirty Thanksgiving . . .
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June 20, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
Every time I hit the interstate I see a huge orange truck sporting the company name: Yellow.
Honestly, it makes me wonder. It makes me wonder a lot of things. Mainly if I'm color blind, but among . . .
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June 21, 2006 07:54 AM EDT --
The movers arrived yesterday. We'd done a lot of pre-packing & throwing out so their job is pretty easy.
To get ready for the move I made signs to hang everywhere. I am an organizational . . .
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November 14, 2006 02:58 PM EST --
(Nichole P mentioned an ugly baby in her article All Men Are the Same - it reminded me of the last time I saw an ugly baby.)
One of my dearest and best friends had a baby. An all out ugly baby. . . .
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November 15, 2006 11:21 PM EST --
Working from home has its merits.
The view, isn't so bad. I have an office with a view.
I can stick my head out of the back door and 'moo' with incoming friends.
Pajamas . . .
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December 19, 2006 12:06 AM EST --
dear husband,
somewhere between the deployments and being situationally single, I've become a selfish sleeper.
While the dog and the cats snore, your snoring is something somewhat shall we say on . . .
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March 10, 2006 12:39 PM EST --
I was 11 when she got sick. I knew everything at age 11. I knew that things I didn't believe in didn't come true - so I chose to not believe. She chose to believe like I did.
And that was the . . .
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March 24, 2006 01:10 PM EST --
This article started out as being hungry and wishing for the tables full of food we used to have at get togethers at my grandpas place up in the country. I digressed. This isn't how the article . . .
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March 24, 2006 02:24 PM EST --
Sad News
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the
moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person,
which almost went unnoticed . . .
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November 20, 2006 01:55 AM EST --
We're headed home for the Holidays!! Clink Clink. And here I am.
I'm sitting on this holiday like a chicken nesting on an atomic bomb. While I sit and hope, and pray, and make promises . . .
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April 02, 2006 07:32 AM EDT --
The Picaso Cats: Series: Mama Maria://Foster/03.31.06/
We have a new resident. Mama Maria. Anything that shows up at our house with babies get the 'mama.' I'm personally . . .
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April 08, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
Today, I missed a parent moment. My son broke his first board in Tae Kwon Do and tested for his yellow belt. I wasn't there to see it. I wasn't there to beam. Help . . .
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