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Archives => Archive 8 => Topic started by: bk on January 01, 2007, 12:12:11 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you are now informed that it is 2007, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they promise they'll be home sometime this year.
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And the word of the day is: NASCENT!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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Let's begin 2007 with a bang - pages of posts so that when the errant and truant arise they will truly be baffled.
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New beginnings, new projects, new fun, new friends, old friends, old projects - let them all be bountiful and provide health and wealth and wonder for all.
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Quick, somebody chime in before we have a whole page of me.
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Everyone must be reading the notes - they're not that long.
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To the Best and BEtter in 2007!
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I have discovered that I have become incredibly addicted to Sondheim in the last year
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I think I shall go eat a small piece of chocolate to begin the year with sweetness.
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Ate a piece of dark chocolate Godiva.
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Everyone must be catching up, whilst I, of course, am all caught up.
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DArk Chocolate Godiva is decadent
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Welcome six GUESTS! Happy New Year!
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I hate to be a wussburger, but I am really drooping...
Pleasant dreams!
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Well, I watched the three movies I had slated for tonight.
Liked INCONVENIENT TRUTH
PIRATES OF C II, despite being written by pals of mine is needlessly convuluted and movies just trying to outdo each other by being faster, louder, bigger just wear me out anymore. Worst is the fact I HATE movies that are not complete in themselves. You have to remember too much from the 1st one and they have left this one open-ended for a third one. You take that exhausting journey for a shaggy-dog ending that doesn't finish the story. I HATE that! (P.S. - The sound was terrible!)
BLACK DAHLIA, also written by a pal, also had terrible sound (or maybe I need to adjust it on my TV set) and was a bit convuluted. I don't know whether the fault lie with the script, the direction, or the source material...but it seemed filled with a bunch of cliches from a bunch of old noir films...LAURA (enamoured of a DEAD GIRL); THE BIG SLEEP (psycho rich family; porno); MALTESE FALCON ("When your partner dies, you're supposed to do something about it."), among many others. Hillary Swank gives a rather cartoonish femme fatale.
Jrand, the William Gaunt I saw was a much older and whiter (haired) Gaunt than the one from The Champions.
Happy New Year, Everybody!
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I thought the woman who played Swank's mother in Dahlia gave the most cartoonish performance in the film. It was like she was playing in a Feydeau farce.
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Welcome eight GUESTS! Happy New Year - come on in, the champagne's fine.
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As always, I say Welcome eight GUESTS and then there were seven.
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Everyone must really be catching up, and there's a lot to catch up on.
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Yes! It was Fiona Shaw...a greatly respected (and usually talented) British stage actress. And there was just so much exposition to wade through, mostly about a guy who's talked about but never appears (or maybe he does in flashback). I never did figure out all the relationships and who was screwing who exactly. Also the big secret killer was telegraphed the minute you saw the silhouette.
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I thought it was a bad, bad film. De Palma is just not a good director, and I suspect the source novel is written in a very Ellroyesque purple way that doesn't translate well - plus, they're trying to cram everything in in two hours. The last fifteen minutes of the film are unintentionally hilarious.
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This is like the glory days of late-night denizens.
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I remember one hilarious late-night frenzy where we did something like five or six pages of posts by two in the morning. When people woke up, they couldn't believe it.
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Welcome eight GUESTS.
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Wait a minute - I know - quick, everybody LIMBO!
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They catch up and they leave. Not very sporting.
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And the folks dwindle down to a precious few.
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TOD: Guy Haines
Half Man-Half Biscuit
Don Henry
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OK, I'm off---goodnight again!
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TOTD: Damien Leith. Winner of Australian Idol. After the past three years "pop" success stories - Damien is quite a surprise. He can sing! I've not seen a single second of the Idol programme.
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They dropped like WUSSBURGER flies. Well, at least we got to page two - that will do.
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I've also developed a new appreciation for some of the post "Crowded House" work by the Brothers Finn.
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Who are these six GUESTS and why are they just sitting there like so much fish, instead of joining in the FUN?
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Time to find a movie to watch.
We're hoping for more rain tonight or tomorrow. The dogs can do without the thunder! I would not have known about "Rescue Remedy" had it not been for the dog lovers of HHW.
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I got distracted and was surfing the net. Sorry. ::)
;)
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I have discovered that I have become incredibly addicted to Sondheim in the last year
EVERYBODY should become incredibly addicted to Sondheim! ;D
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I'm getting tired. Probably that sip of champagne I had.
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Yesterday morning, I wrote:
And now I must shower, shave and dress. Then I want to go shopping and find a new jacket...something light but will keep me warm and dry. I have a couple of heavy winter jackets, but I rarely need them.
The regular jacket that I have now is several years old (my mom got it for me for Christmas and now she hates it). Anyway, a couple of the snaps no longer stay closed and it's just annoying, so I must find a new jacket.
Well, I did go shopping, but I never found a coat that I liked...or even one that fit. :-\ But I did find a pair of shoes at the Bass outlet store in the Centralia Outlet Mall. They were originally priced at $89.99! HOWEVER, they were only one of four styles in the entire store that were 75% off!! And since I liked the style, I bought a pair. With tax, the grand total for the $90 pair of shoes was $24.27! That's one heck of a deal! :D
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Someone's car alarm or house alarm has been blaring for about ten minutes.
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I suppose I shall toddle off to the bedroom environment and try to sleep.
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I'm getting tired. Probably that sip of champagne I had.
At the restaurant, my niece (who's 22 years old) and my sister (who's much older ::)) both had red apple martinis. Both of them started feeling a little sleepy even before they finished their drinks. Fortunately, neither was driving...and neither actually got drunk. They had the drinks with their meals and were quite coherent during the entire evening. Just got a little sleepy.
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Someone's car alarm or house alarm has been blaring for about ten minutes.
When I lived at an apartment (up until two and a half years ago or so), there was a car whose alarm would go off at least once a week and sometimes stay on for more than an hour! No one could be bothered turn it off! It wasn't very close to my place, so it wasn't blaringly loud to me, but still it was noticeable...even with my TV on. I'm glad I only lived there for the year and a half or so that I did.
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Where I'm living now (and have been for only two and a half months), I've never heard a car alarm, but the Tumwater fire department is right across the street to the entrance of the condo complex. I, however, live at the back end of the complex. I have heard emergency vehicles twice (I think), but again, since I'm not really that close, it hasn't been a problem. We'll see what it's like after a few years. :)
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Well, it's time for me to hit the hay. Good night, BK. 8)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (again)
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I'm caught up and ready to start a new year!
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TOD: Musically primarily, Duncan Sheik and Spring Awakening. I do kid the Spring Awakening rhyming, which is an easy target - but really because the lyricist has gotten away (with the NY theater critics, anyway) with what for many decades has been considered sloppiness, mainly by having found a concept that the critics believe suits the style, and in Duncan Sheik a composer who works well with this lyric style.
And that's as much sense as I'll try to make of it on a New Year's morning.
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The SA lyrics intrigue me, DR FJL, and remind me of the rhymes in a production of CINDERELLA set in Italy that DR ELMORE orchestrated and that I found on tape. Nothing but forced rhymes, it becomes amusing after awhile and ANNOYING a short time later.
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2007 is here.
TOD:
Helen Shapiro - a Jew for Jesus who crashed DR TOMovOZ's cd burner.
Royksopp - written about by DR JMK.
I recently purchased SONDHEIM AT THE MOVIES, but it hasn't arrived yet.
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TCM is showing a lot of 50's sci fi today.
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Here is Mr BK's landlord exercising his vocal abilities. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0Gsnjn5jw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0Gsnjn5jw)
As for Mr William Gaunt being white haired now....DR CP, so am I, so am I... ;D
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HAPPY 2007 TO ONE AND ALL!
Like BK, I too, attempted to watch THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. I tried to take it in in one single sitting, but there was just no way! I can remember watching it on late night tv throughout the 1970s, but then I didn't realize how slowly it flows. . .Bloom looks lovely, Steiger looks (pardon the expression) F-A-T (check out the special feature on his illustrating) and Drivas looks cute in his birthday suit - BUT, as BK said, the film is a mess with a wonderful score.
I also watched, and loved, THE BLACK DAHLIA in the same way one would love a Warner Brothers cartoon. It's over the top, sometimes poorly acted (Hillary Swain has TWO Oscars?!?!?!?), often incomprehensible (unless one has thorough knowledge of Ellroy's novel) but ALWAYS goregous to look at! The dvd is simply stunning; there's a great movie in Ellroy's novel, this just isn't it.
Then I saw OPERATION CROSSBOW, quite possibly the best FILM I watched over the weekend. It moves, it has fascinating situations and characters, an all-star cast and a fiery finale which literally saves the modern world.
I've listened, nearly constantly, to the DREAMGIRLS soundtrack, David Campbell's THE SWING SESSIONS and the 2006 London Revival of EVITA (Philip Quast fans take note).
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I like OPERATION CROSSBOW, but my DVD is P/S. The only place I have seen it in widescreen is on TCM.
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In case "Sandwiches are made to be broken" doesn't catch on as a catchphrase, and likewise "Dare to glare," I'm going to float a new hair dye product to MAKE your hair white or grey with the slogan "White and gray are distingue." Which would work if only I knew how to put the accent on the final e, but may be doomed to oblivion because of my lack of computer skills.
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Doesn't matter about the accent mark, DR FJL.
I work with a girl who calls the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, the Rider Wyatt, and transposes most of the consonants in every word.
The grave mark would confuse her and many others to NO END.
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Mr. Drivas' romp in the lake in ILLUSTRATED MAN was one of the formative images of my yoot, as discussed in a post several days ago. And I was sort of fascinated by Mr. Steiger as well back then somehow. I believe Mr. Steiger's rear nudity made it to the Tv screen when I saw it while Mr. Drivas' did not, perhaps because Mr. Steiger's rear was covered with tattoos???
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New Year Monday greetings! What a great partay here at HHW last night - sorry to have turned into a pumpkin shortly after midnight EST.
Today is Rose Bowl day - GO BLUE!
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I'm watching Rachael Ray's talk show for the first time. I'd only seen her on the Food Network before. She seems charming. Why do so many people dislike her?
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Good morning, all! It was another liesurely block of time between New Year's Eve and Day, and probably the last for a while. I've been having a self-indulgent interlude for the past week, and tomorrow I'm back to a busy regime, I hope. I have little plans today except for dinner with Cathie and Alice, so I may do some tidying, catch up on the Netflix shipments, and maybe start this year's IRS calculations.
TOD:
Anthony Warlow
Has anyone heard this wonderful album?
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As far as musical discoveries go, 2006 marked the first time I heard Savage Garden.
I also found The Poverty Neck Hillbillies.
Springtsteen's Seeger Sessions cd and dvd marked a revelation.
Alison Moyet's Voice cd was also a revelation.
And then there's Jennifer Hudson - her solos on the soundtrack of DREAMGIRLS are divine.
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I like OPERATION CROSSBOW, but my DVD is P/S. The only place I have seen it in widescreen is on TCM.
Warner released this the same day as ILLUSTRATED MAN, PRESENTING LILY MARS, etc, in a fine enhanced widescreen presentation.
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New Page Dance:
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Not sure I'm ready for Mr. Steiger's nude scene in widescreen, though. :)
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Not sure I'm ready for Mr. Steiger's nude scene in widescreen, though. :)
But, you ARE ready for Mr. Drivas' sun-drenched, wet one, right?
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Only because Mr. Steiger's is tattooed, of course. :)
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I'm just kidding, of course, about Steiger in widescreen. For a ten year old watching the first onscreen nude scenes I'd ever seen, both Mr. Drivas and Mr. Steiger made the film worth sitting through twice.
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Why is Sophie Loreen holdin' a snake?
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Warner released this the same day as ILLUSTRATED MAN, PRESENTING LILY MARS, etc, in a fine enhanced widescreen presentation.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. ;D
DR ELMORE - I am investigating this Cd...it looks interesting. Thanks. ;D
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MR. DRIVAS' SUN-DRENCHED WET ONE - where else on the internet could you read such a phrase?
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Invisible Invaders followed by Riders to the Stars (Martha Hyer goes to the moon) followed by The Man From Planet X
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Why is Sophie Loreen holdin' a snake?
Umm. . .she's auditioning to play Medusa?
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MR. DRIVAS' SUN-DRENCHED WET ONE - where else on the internet could you read such a phrase?
That's what we're HERE for; only at www.haineshisway.com could you get such prosaic prose!
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I would not have known about "Rescue Remedy" had it not been for the dog lovers of HHW.
It works for cats, too!
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Off to Athens to "Christmas" my best friend and brunch with her, too!
(I guess brunch is a noun that is now accepted as a verb?)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Good morning!
It rained very hard during the night, and it's been drizzling all morning, but it looks like this is about to stop and the skies are going to clear. Should end up being a fairly pretty day, but it's going to be soggy outside for awhile.
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Happy New Year! It was a fun party last night here at HHW. After having a hot bubble bath at midnight, I finished reading The Great Gatsby. It's our One Book One Siouxland selection this year. I've seent he movie a number of times, but I don't think I've ever read the book before. It's amazingly short.
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MBarnum might recognize the landmark to the left of the rainbows.
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Well, believe it or not, I'm off to the office. As much as I say I like working at home, it's become a pain because I never seem to have everything I need here. So, I'm going to go organize the office and get a bunch of work done so I can start the new year there on a good note
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DakotaCelt, thank you.
Thanks to my hip I still can’t move too easily. Well, last night Sherlock took my face & hand towels but I just asked him to pick them up, one at a time, & give them too me. He did, first request each time. I was soooo proud. I’m, of course, ignoring the fact he shouldn’t take the towels in the first place-lol.
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Then I am coming home and making a nice roast beef and rice with an Asian salad. I also may stick the frozen home made apple pie my mother gave me in the oven. I didn't make any weight resolutions this year. I will work on it when I feel like it, but without the pressure of a resolution
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I fixed myself a little drink last night to toast the new year, and then settled in to one of the best nights of sleep I've had in awhile.
However, the fireworks went on for something like 45 minutes, so I had to wait for that noise to subside.
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Later this afternoon I shall watch Little Miss Sunshine and Eight Below.
I think I'm going to work tomorrow too. I just have so much to do and a couple days at the office without the staff there sounds like heaven
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Have a great day everyone
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Today, I am picking my friend Gregg up at the airport (he spends his CHristmas vacation visiting his parents in St. Louis), and we're heading to a Chinese buffet near the airport. It isn't as good as my late lamented China House that was near where I live, but it'll have to do.
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I'll probably finish watching the CSI episodes on the disc already in the player. TOnight, after Gregg heads back to his home in Winston-Salem, I'll probably settle in with HARPER.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL AND ALL AND ONE!!!
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And the word of the day is: NASCENT!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
As early as the 1780s,
Those being the NASCENT days of the dance
In Vienna.
It's amazing how their feet have never tired.
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I decided to brave the elements last night and go to my friends' party and I had a ball (a Buddy Hackett reference!) We laughed ourselves silly playing hours of Pictionary and telling misbegotton tales of our misspent youths. It was a wonderful way to chime in the new year.
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Have a great day everyone
You, too, DR!
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No Mummers Parade here in Philly, today--it's been postponed till Saturday because of the rain. Maybe I'll go and take some of it in this year.
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Page Four Mummers' Strut:
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I'm going to hop in the shower now to get cleaned up to face the rest of my day.
WBBL.
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MR. DRIVAS' SUN-DRENCHED WET ONE - where else on the internet could you read such a phrase?
Mr. Drivas' Sun-Drenched Wet One - that's the name of my new eau de cologne.
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Merry New Year to One and All!!!
I'd intended to sign on last night and join the party but I had a last minute accident--and I mean last minute.
Mom wanted to get up to ring the New Year in. I had bought a bottle of Asti for us to have a toast.
To make a long story short, as the last minute was counting down, I was trying to open the bottle (yes I was using a corkscrew). It exploded. I had closed my eyes because I was afraid of the cork and it's a good thing I did. Glass flew and when I opened my eyes, I had blood everywhere.
I'm alright. A few cuts but at first I had thought that I would have have to go to the ER.
2006 was out to get me--right down to the last minute and am I glad that year is OVER!
I will never attempt to open another corked bottle of anything ever again! :D
I hope everyone else had a more peaceful begining to the New Year.
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
DR Danise - OMG!!!! Glad to know you're all right. Welcome to 2007. May it be broken-glass-free!
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...And maybe in a few days, we'll pass on the proper procedure for opening a corked bottle of champagne/effervescent wine. ;)
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Thank you, DR Jose. I think I've learned the lesson on how NOT to open a corked bottle. ;) :D
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Well, I slept in too - until just a little before Noon. -But since I've been getting up around 11:00-ish, Noon-ish lately, I guess I really wasn't sleeping in... But enough of the semantics...
I got a great night's sleep, and I feel very rested and well this morning/afternoon. That's a good way to start off 2007.
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Thank you, DR Jose. I think I've learned the lesson on how NOT to open a corked bottle. ;) :D
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-I'll just start off with this helpful hint: If the bottle has a "bulb" type cork. Do not use a corkscrew. It's not needed.
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I'm watching the Rose Parade. Someday I hope to see one in person.
The dogs took the fireworks pretty good. I think Bear is somewhat deaf because he didn't even lift his head. Sheena was scared. Poor thing, she shook like a leaf but she's fine this morning. She does seem to be sitting closer to me then usual.
To bad there isn't some way you can explain what's going on to them.
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Well... Time for me to get something to eat, and then it's Pack, Pack, Pack! It shouldn't really take me that much time to pack. I just need to not get so picky, organized - meaning, anal - while packing - especially since it's all going to be unpacked in a few days anyway. Open empty box. Fill empty box. Tape now-filled box. Done.
-One can dream... ;-)
Laters...
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:-)
-I'll just start off with this helpful hint: If the bottle has a "bulb" type cork. Do not use a corkscrew. It's not needed.
Now he tells me......... ::) ;D
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Have a great day, DR Jose!
I need to go and get supper started.
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This is what the owner of Sam Morgan's gave me to welcome in the new year; i'll be popping it's cork with dinner - sauerkraut, ribs and kielbasa around 2:00pm . . .
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A Very Happy New Year to One and All and also All and One!!!
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And VIBES for a MUCH BETTER YEAR to DR Danise!!!
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Also thanks for the VIBES for my Brudder.. HE GOT THE JOB!!!
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I'm up, I'm up. I went to bed at two so I almost got eight hours. The sky is bluer than blue and I am upper than up.
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And now we are off to a New Year's Brunch!!
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It looks like there is a gentle breeze - I don't mind gentle breezes, I don't even mind Gentile breezes.
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As soon as I ungroggify I shall joggify - the first jog of the New Year.
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Just finished watching the Rose Parade, too. HGTV does a great job.
35 years ago today, I was in Pasadena with my parents. It was my senior year at Michigan, who played Stanford (and lost in the last seconds) in the Rose Bowl. We did not attend the parade, but did go to the game. On Jan. 2, we went to one of the local parks where the floats were on display. It was a thrill to see them (and smell them!) up close and personal
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Looks like we all made it through to the new year...although some of us (Danise!) were a bit bloodied, it would appear! :o
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Yikes, DR Danise! Take care!
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In a moment I will head over to my mom's and meet her and my brother Dan who drove up from Medford this morning (he is picking his girlfriend up at the Portland airport)....well, mom just now IM'd me and told me he has just arrived, so I had best get going.
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Oh, I guess they are going to just pick me up at 11:00.
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td, thanks for the picture of the sexiest woman on earth. Starts the New Year off right for me.
Regards the discussion last night about why we always mourn someone who dies at 93, rather than celebrating their long life, I am reminded of this old story:
Apparently Clifton Webb was disconsolate when his mother died at a ripe old age. His pal Noel Coward tried to soften the blow by offer, "Come, come, dear boy, there are worse things than becoming an orphan at age 63."
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DR td's New Year's Day dinner sounds like what I'll be having. I shall shortly travel over to the house of my oldest sister and dine with my family on pork and saurkraut, an age old tradition.
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MBarnum is closing in on 8000 postings.
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Verrrry slow going trying to post - hope it's AOL and not the site.
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Slow, but we got to page five - but alive, but alive!
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And one for Margo.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] [size=8]HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL AND ALSO ALL AND ONE![/size] [/move]
I just finished shlepping 3 (count 'em) SUV-ful loads of donations to Goodwill. Nine 32 gallon bags of toys, clothes, games, etc., PLUS miscellaneous other goodies. My 2007 donations are already in the four figures, go figure! And I always lowball this stuff, per my very conservative CPA (who used to work for the IRS, so he knows his stuff).
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Just been going over the kids show script and making notes and starting to try to get some sense of how it should look.
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DANISE-GREAT VIBES FOR A WONDERFUL 2007!!!!!
I'm glad you survived 2006 :D
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td, thanks for the picture of the sexiest woman on earth. Starts the New Year off right for me.
Always happy to oblige . . .
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For the first time ever I didn’t even look at the Rose Parade. I was playing with Sherlock. I did have a nice New Year phone conversation with Penny.
My brother and his children will be at the Rose Game yelling “GO BLUE!”.
Craig and Bryan will miss the game, if it is even broadcast in Bucharest, as they took the train to the beautiful town of Brasov for the day. If Bryan’s luggage didn’t arrive I hope the nice clothing stores are open.
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To make a long story short, as the last minute was counting down, I was trying to open the bottle (yes I was using a corkscrew). It exploded. I had closed my eyes because I was afraid of the cork and it's a good thing I did. Glass flew and when I opened my eyes, I had blood everywhere.
I'm alright. A few cuts but at first I had thought that I would have have to go to the ER.
2006 was out to get me--right down to the last minute and am I glad that year is OVER!
Oh, DANISE, how awful. So glad it wasn't worse.
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I think I'm degroggified so maybe I'll now get joggified.
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Good afternoon, fellow Dear Readers. I was off this morning on a wild swan chase. I didn't see it.
Danise, I am glad you are ok. This next year HAS to be a better one for you!
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This post is for BK, just to keep him happy.
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I'm not having any trouble posting. Maybe your problems are just AOL, BK.
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Time to head to work. (Yep, some of us do things like that on days like today.)
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Jane - thank you for posting the exquisite double rainbow photo! I'm going to send it to my mother, if that's OK with you.
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Back from the jog. I'm in book mode so jog goes fast because there are lots of things swimming around in my head.
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Now, where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think it was the first day of the New Year. Now, whatever shall I watch?
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I think some nice New Year's cheese is called for - perhaps The Awakening with Mr. Charlton Heston.
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DR Elmore - you will be glad to know that I've just designated Jane Glover's Mozart's Women as the February selection for my book group.
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Jane - thank you for posting the exquisite double rainbow photo! I'm going to send it to my mother, if that's OK with you.
Glad you enjoyed it. It rained most of our way home from Portland, and then we were stuck in traffic while the cars double parked on the freeway to put chains on to go over the pass (we fortunately are the exit before the pass). Until the rainbows appeared we were wishing we had left the freeway & the traffic one exit sooner.
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...My brother and his children will be at the Rose Game yelling “GO BLUE!”....
I'll be sitting in our family room doing the same thing! This being the 35th anniversary of my being there in person, I've dragged out my photos and memorabilia, including my ticket stub. We paid $10 a piece to attend the game in 1972. Bet it costs a whole lot more than that now!
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DR Elmore - you will be glad to know that I've just designated Jane Glover's Mozart's Women as the February selection for my book group.
It's a wonderful book! You'll have to listen to some of his music that the ladies were involved in at the same time.
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Brother Dan arrived and we went out to breakfast with mom...then took her to the grocery store...now I am pooped...how is that family can wear you out so fast?
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DR Elmore - you will be glad to know that I've just designated Jane Glover's Mozart's Women as the February selection for my book group.
Please let me know if you think I should choose it for my next discussion book.
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And having Dan come and visit...it reminds me of just how backwoods Medford can be...the breakfast subjects from my little brother included:
Why can't I find any toys that speak English instead of Spanish.
All Arabs and other non-whites are terrorists.
Why don't we just drop a bomb on North Korea.
I only like country music.
...and that old standby...
Why don't these immigrants learn to speak English
...well, you get the point.
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Oh, I forgot that Pres. Bush is a national hero, but Clinton was as crooked as they come.
I really do love my family, but sometimes I have difficulty believing my ears.
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Ginny I believe my niece’s alumni tickets were $150, unless that was the cost for the non-alumni tickets for the rest of the family members.
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And having Dan come and visit...it reminds me of just how backwoods Medford can be...the breakfast subjects from my little brother included:
Why don't these immigrants learn to speak English
...well, you get the point.
Sorry, if you lived in L.A. you might be making the same complaint ;D
Instead of staying in Medford next time come to Ashland, it's very different here :)
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Ginny I believe my niece’s alumni tickets were $150, unless that was the cost for the non-alumni tickets for the rest of the family members.
Jane, I wasn't fishing for that info, but sure do find it interesting! The last home game we attended in Ann Arbor was 4 years ago and those tix were $35 each.
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Our first movie watched for the New Year was French film "Strange Gardens" (2003). Poignant, charming, Nostalgic, funny and a total delight.
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I'm watching cheese - The Awakening. I love any movie with a prologue that runs over thirty minutes, almost a third of its running time.
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Good Afternoon!
Jojo's packing up
Jojo's moving out...
*I figured I'd used my nickname since "Jose's packing up..." just doesn't have the proper ring to it. ;)
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Get back Jojo
Back to where you once belonged.
(The Beatles)
I hope New York is good to you in 2007 Jose.
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In any case...
I've made some great progress... The closets are empty - save for the shirts and coats I'm keeping on their hangers. The dressers are emptied, and the contents have been boxed and "luggaged". I just have to box up the pots and pans I brought down with me, and then it will be time to take care of the always dreaded "little things". However, I think I shall have everything packed up within the next couple of hours.
And then I need to make a few trips out to my parents' house to stash some of this stuff. -I'll pick it up next week when I get the moving van.
OH! And I got three loads of laundry done too! I figured I might as well get that done while I was packing things up. The joys of multi-tasking! ;)
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Back to the film.
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Get back Jojo
Back to where you once belonged.
(The Beatles)
I hope New York is good to you in 2007 Jose.
Thank you, DR Tomovoz.
-And I still remember the first time I had had heard that song. I eventually taped it off the radio (to cassette), and played it over and over again just to make sure they were singing "Jojo". ;)
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Hopefully, when film is done there will be a few postings to peruse.
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I've eaten some almonds for lunch.
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...Alas, even though some of my grade school - and high school - classmates would make reference to that song when "referring" to me, the worst was when some zoo in Connecticut acquired a new gorilla. Whose name happened to be "Jojo". -Even my parents got a kick out of that.
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Also thanks for the VIBES for my Brudder.. HE GOT THE JOB!!!
Congratulations!!
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I have three episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" to watch (finally!). After that, I'm going to my parents' house for an early dinner.
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"Hope everything is Ok" vibes for Danise!
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Just back from SPRING AWAKENING. I guess the plot points I had problems with in the last 20 minutes are just there and that's that. But I'm afraid I'm going to be one of those people I often cringe about - the kind that says ignore how thoroughly hope-free the show's ending is and how rotten it might make you feel when you leave the theater, and see it for the superlative telling of the story.
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I'm having a very relaxing day. Mr. Nick Redman should be here at five, and we'll head over to the party by six or so.
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Beautiful rainbow Jane!
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Sometimes I like her and sometimes I dont. I do have to say she is straightforward and her tips are useful.
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Healing vibes to Danise!
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Wonder how close I am to page 7?
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Just back from SPRING AWAKENING. I guess the plot points I had problems with in the last 20 minutes are just there and that's that. But I'm afraid I'm going to be one of those people I often cringe about - the kind that says ignore how thoroughly hope-free the show's ending is and how rotten it might make you feel when you leave the theater, and see it for the superlative telling of the story.
Thoroughly hope-free and makes me feel rotten....gee, can't wait to see it ;)
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Cilla - Let me expand on it and say, if you love musical theater, see it for the superlative telling of a very relevant story.
:)
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It's the bitch of looking for great theater. Sometimes it just depresses the heck out of you.
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Back from picking up my pal Gregg at the airport. His plane was on time and there were no problems.
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We stopped at a Chineswe buffet on the way home, and both ate to bursting. This particular buffet doesn't do every dish well, but they have the best almond cookies I've ever tasted. I always look forward to them more than the other food on the buffet (though some of it was also very good).
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Before I headed to the airport, I did have time to watch some fun things.
I began with some CSI episodes to finish out disc 4. One involved a body found stuffed in a fireplace, a very entertaining mystery with a very poignant ending.
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Another CSI episode involved the story of a hit man who right after the hit was performed was involved in a traffic accident with a teenager (the teen's fault), and whom he also had to kill when she insisted on reporting the accident to the police.
This one wasn't a mystery but instead a somber story of a doomed soul.
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DR td's New Year's Day dinner sounds like what I'll be having. I shall shortly travel over to the house of my oldest sister and dine with my family on pork and saurkraut, an age old tradition.
Some of my fondest memories of Philadelphia - New Years day and all of South Philly smelled of saurkraut and pork! My cousin hosted about 30-40 family members and hangers-on after the Parade - it was a non-stop assembly line that ran for much of the day. (Quite a logistical nightmare considering she lived in a second floor three room apartment.)
der Brucer
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And the third episode was a disturbing one involving genetic experimentation by a neo-Nazi on a host of unwilling subjects. A creepy episode made discomforting by the experiments with people's eyeballs that were viewed in extreme close-up on camera.
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With about thirty minutes to go, I put in another True-Life adventure short, this one called MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP, a fascinating half hour of some really interesting undersea life and their struggle for survival. This one could have been hours longer and not bored me at all.
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It was a thrill to see them (and smell them!) up close and personal
The players or the floats :)
der Brucer
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... but Clinton was as crooked as they come.
Those with "up close and personal knowledge" say that he was "crooked" in a most unusual way ::)
der Brucer
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...Alas, even though some of my grade school - and high school - classmates would make reference to that song when "referring" to me, the worst was when some zoo in Connecticut acquired a new gorilla. Whose name happened to be "Jojo". -Even my parents got a kick out of that.
Didn't you ever get the "Jose can you see..." jokes?
der Brucer
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Cilla - Let me expand on it and say, if you love musical theater, see it for the superlative telling of a very relevant story.
:)
I know what you meant. There are many "down" stories in all genres that I "enjoy". I just had to tease a little :)
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Halftime at the Rose Bowl - our DS just went out to pick up pizza for us.
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duh! I've been looking for a new Anthony Warlow album "Unexpected Dreams". I should read posts more carefully.
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I decided I needed a New Year's Jacuzzi, which was just the ticket. I finished The Awkening, about which more later.
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It's been quite a nice day here in the City of Studio.
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I guess it's been a long time since I've sat at my laptop at just this hour, because the sun is coming in through the window and shining right in my eyes.
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First Evening of the New Year Greetings!
Just finished our meal of sauerkraut, pork and mash potatos. Yummers! We've had that same meal every year on January 1st for as long as I can remember.
Thank you all for the good wishes. I hope that's the last ones I will need for a long while.
I guess I should have said that was the first corked bottle I've ever tried to open. I don't know why I even bothered to buy the darn thing since we really don't drink anyway.
But it was on sale and almost every cart I passed had a bottle. Also Asti was one of the few drinks I had years ago and liked.
Let's change the subject. Lovely double rainbow photo, DR Jane!
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It's raining here. Not hard but enough to make the roads all wet and everything yuckie.
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Off to watch HARPER. It's already cued up in the player ready to go.
WBBL.
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This sun in my eyes is TOO much.
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Although it's so bright it does enable me to see just how dirty my computer screen is - have to do something about THAT.
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I'm really getting hungry, but won't be able to eat until after six. If we don't care for the food at the party, we'll go out afterwards.
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Now, now, we must have more postings on New Year's Day. I've showered, I smell lovely, and Mr. Nick Redman will be here shortly - in fact, he just pulled up.
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Have a nice time at your party bk!
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USC 32, Michigan 18
:P :-[ >:(
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Monday , January 01, 2007
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der Brucer
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USC 32, Michigan 18
:P :-[ >:(
Support Safer Sex - Go Trojans!
der Brucer
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AP
Dec. 31: Powerlines nearly touch the ground after ice weighs them down near Ogallah, Kan. Dec. 31
I hope Toto has a sweater!
der Brucer
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It can't be January 1st.
It just can't.
This cannot be the end of my vacation!
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I'm not ready to go back to work.
No, no, there's no way....
Would it be of any use for me tellin' you I'm not going?
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I've spent way too much time with the SciFi Channel's New Year's "Twilight Zone" Marathon.
I did manage to sneak a DVD in today and watch "Failure to Launch."
Cute.
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My New Year's Day meal:
Collard greens
Black-eyed peas
Ham
Cornbread
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Was yesterday's 28 pages and 800-plus postings some sort of record?
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Yes, it was our third highest day of posting and pages.
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Nick and I shall now be on our way to the partay, after which, I shall return.
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Good Evening!
Still packing, still sorting, but I'd have to say that I have just about two hours left of "work" - and those would be two leisurely hours of work. I just made two trips out to my parents' house where I dropped off some boxes. Alas, while surveying just how much stuff I still have out there, it looks like I'm going to have to make at least one more trip back down here just to take care of more sorting and purging. As much as I would like to move everything up to NYC, I don't really need every thing up in NYC. I just don't/won't have the room, and there are just some things I simply don't need/want any more. *One of Steve's sisters runs a consignment shop, and I know I'll be dropping off a couple of crates with her.
In the meantime, I'm taking a little break for a late-ish dish. Baked salmon and veggies. -And that almost empties out my fridge and freezer here. ;)
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Jane, I wasn't fishing for that info, but sure do find it interesting! The last home game we attended in Ann Arbor was 4 years ago and those tix were $35 each.
LOL-I didn't think you were fishing. I'm sure the local games aren't so pricey. ;D Today Keith and my nephew (the USC graduates) are happy, the rest aren't.
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DakotaCelt & Danise-glad you enjoyed the rainbow. I have been saving it for the New Year.
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Since Thanksgiving weekend we kept hearing about a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy that had just walked through town before we did. Seems the people with the puppy kept hearing about us, but alas we never met. Today at the dog park I met their neighbor who called them from her cell phone so we could connect. The puppy is exactly two weeks younger than Sherlock & we have made a play date for Thursday. :D
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duh! I've been looking for a new Anthony Warlow album "Unexpected Dreams". I should read posts more carefully.
I'm sorry!
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I've shaved.
It's the first time since last Tuesday evening...the night before I flew out on Wednesday.
Sigh.
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Good evening, fellow Dear Readers. Tonight my friend took me to a fancy restaurant to thank me for taking care of her animals recently. I had salmon, which was quite good -- almost as good as the salmon DR MusicGuy fixed for me a couple years ago.
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OK... Back to the boxes and bags...
Laters...
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Joshie is amusing us by pouncing on the white feather boa in a paper bag. He is really having a swell time!
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Ron, sorry you aren't ready to go back to work. I've been doing a little office work here and there during my time off and although our office is technically closed tomorrow, the court is open and I have several deadlines, so I'm going to get up and go in as if it's a normal day. I'm actually looking forward to going in without the staff and without having to answer the phone.
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Joshie is amusing us by pouncing on the white feather boa in a paper bag. He is really having a swell time!
Oh my gosh! That would drive the girls mad!
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Finally watched MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT. What a lovely film! Quiet, touching, with a perfect ending. It had a very brief theatrical run here and I heard very little about it, but it is quite worthwhile. I recommend it. Available through Netflix.
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I really do love my family, but sometimes I have difficulty believing my ears.
Greg and I can adopt you if you like...
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Brother Dan arrived and we went out to breakfast with mom...then took her to the grocery store...now I am pooped...how is that family can wear you out so fast?
Boy, ain't that the truth. My family's New Year's get together is usually a low-key get-together, but we were a raucous group today. I had a terrific time, but I was wiped by the time I got home and zonked out on the sofa for about a half hour.
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My New Year's Day meal:
Collard greens
Black-eyed peas
Ham
Cornbread
Damn! That was what *I* was supposed to have and here I had fabulous Indian food with my best friend. We walked around Athens for several hours and visited a gardener I'd done a show about last season. We just showed up on her doorstep, unannounced (she'd never even met me) and she was gracious enough to give us a tour of the wonderful garden.
By missing out on the traditional meal, I wonder if it means I'm not going to make any moey this year? Yikes!
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After the rain cleared out of the area, it became a really lovely day. Cool but just right for January. Should be the same for the next few days.
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I really enjoyed seeing HARPER again after many years away from it. What an all-star cast! And a fun mystery.
I have seen THE DROWNING POOL, but not in a long time, and I don't have fond memories of it. Seems like I remember it being not particularly well written and kind of plodding.
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I spent the rest of the evening revisiting BONES episodes from the Season 1 boxed set. I watched the episode of the prep school kid found hanging in a tree and also the episode about the man's hand found inside a bear that took Tempi and Booth to Seattle.
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I haven't decided which DVDs I'll watch tomorrow. I'm sure I'll proceed with CSI disc 5, but I may put in a film, too, from the stack I still have awaiting viewing. Just haven't made any decision yet.
And if I'm not mistaken, some TV shows come back tomorrow night with new episodes. I think the two LAW & ORDER shows are new tomorrow night.
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My friend gave me one of those fountains for cats. One is fascinated; another is hiding.
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I'm heading down to bed now.
GOod night!
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I've eaten some almonds for lunch.
Were they in an Almond Joy?
:o
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Some of my fondest memories of Philadelphia - New Years day and all of South Philly smelled of saurkraut and pork! My cousin hosted about 30-40 family members and hangers-on after the Parade - it was a non-stop assembly line that ran for much of the day. (Quite a logistical nightmare considering she lived in a second floor three room apartment.)
der Brucer
For what it's worth, the store was totally sold out of saurkraut in any form today. And of black eyed peas.
We live in traditional times, I guess.
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Finally watched MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT. What a lovely film! Quiet, touching, with a perfect ending. It had a very brief theatrical run here and I heard very little about it, but it is quite worthwhile. I recommend it. Available through Netflix.
Hmmmm...I just looked up this movie and it sounds very good...I added it to my Netflix queue...I need to put it towards the top of my queue otherwise I won't get it until sometime in 2037.
My queue is rather long.
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Greg and I can adopt you if you like...
I can be your little Oregon boy.
And you have to put me in your will.
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I've shaved.
Some people think it's sexier to get a bikini wax.
(Hey, you didn't say what you'd shaved.)
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By missing out on the traditional meal, I wonder if it means I'm not going to make any moey this year? Yikes!
I've heard that black eyed peas are supposed to give good luck.
A former supervisor, at my insurance job (from which I retired), insisted on the dollars-and-cents thing, with greens as the greenbacks and the peas as the cents. I thought he was a jerk. (He also thought that he had everyone fooled because he was in the closet. NOT!!!)
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Time to wussburger.
Der B and I had hamburgers tonight.
Tomorrow, we take the grandlads to the bookstore (where they each have giftcards to deploy), and then dinner at a steakhouse.
And then we have their mother to deal with.
Bleh.
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Well, how do you like that. I pop in and nobody's home.
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Back from party - we nibbled on food, but it wasn't my sort of thing, so Nick and I went and had a lovelier than lovely dinner at Marie Callendar's. That's what I'M talkin' about.
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I shall now go back to my Hammer noir - with the first screen appearance of Miss Diana Dors.
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I am really full.
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I am full really.
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I am curious yellow.
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Page nine, by the skin of our teeth.
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Whilst I was uploading Christmas photos to share I see that BK was here without so much as a how do you do.
Now I am all alone again.
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So I will do what I do best when I am alone...post Christmas tree photos! Yippee!
Actually, just one Christmas tree photo which I think was the subject of the day last week...but I am slow.
Here is the Christmas tree at my nephew John and his family's home (where we spent Christmas day). I believe they went into the woods and chopped it down themselves.
(http://shutter15.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/05/009/5D/73/44/42/4SEZC1NLFXj6UizsIKL0E+0+KPxIkmu80300.jpg)
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Here is my little grandneice Taylor playing with her favorite Christmas gift, BABY ALIVE.
Baby Alive is the scariest doll I have seen since MARCY.
As you can plainly see from Taylor's twisted grin and red eye that thi evil doll has already over taken the poor child.
(http://shutter10.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/07/008/56/FD/F8/BC/ueNxJ50y2pQRyJO+Dhr5cSIXLBoSl5+t0300.jpg)
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I've spent way too much time with the SciFi Channel's New Year's "Twilight Zone" Marathon.
I did manage to sneak a DVD in today and watch "Failure to Launch."
Cute.
The movie, or Mr. McConaughey?
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Here you see Grammy (aka my sister Sue) playing with Benjamin and his new Thomas the Train Engine train set.
(http://shutter06.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/06/007/6F/77/DF/3A/WzaUUwfnwb-1hrp4jSTkv7ZiLZnp9vMX0300.jpg)
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Here my sister is taken over by the pod people..er...I mean she is being shown how Baby Alive works by Taylor.
Not only does this doll sleep and wet...she also poops...and poops constantly (thus ensuring that the company will be making a fortune on Baby Alive disposable diapers).
(http://shutter13.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/07/006/5F/7B/68/5C/n9YL5obk3wrBdWNr2aphKqyi92e+Q5Nh0300.jpg)
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My neice Katie displays two presents from Uncle Mike as her hubby Brian grins proudly.
Katie, who is a natural blonde, just went brunette before Christmas (she is a hair dresser).
(http://shutter12.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/06/005/77/FF/70/3E/ORjP86Cv9oqXQANbEt7nVVoRCiZHUt4m0300.jpg)
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Back at my home environment: here is my annual Christmas display of holiday Salt and Pepper shakers.
(http://shutter10.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/07/008/7A/DC/08/21/K6E85b9t5BQ03SV64f6n6H+SUXiDS0x+0300.jpg)
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And DR TD is here! It is nice to see you around these parts again!
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No one in the jernt but me - most unseemly.
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I'm still quite full.
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Have another twenty minutes of Man Bait left.
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Have another twenty minutes of Man Bait left.
TCB? elmore? Where are you?!?!?!?
;D
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Good Morning!
Well... I decided to make one more trip out to my parents' house to stash a few more things. -I really do want to travel as light as possible for my trek back up to NYC - a.k.a. home. :) I have a box or two that needs to be taped up, but I'll take care of those in the morning - a.k.a. when I wake up - just in case I happen to find some stray things that did not get packed earlier. -And, yes, the "little things" are what ended up taking the most time to pack. But I got 95% of the packing done today, and then it's just a matter of loading up the car and heading back up The Big Apple. I'm hoping to be on the road no later than 1:00 - hopefully, 11:00.
I am soooooooo excited!!!!! "Start spreading the news...." :)
In any case... I'm most definitely tuckered out right now, and I want to take a hot shower before heading to bed to help me relax as well as wash off all the "moving dust" from today.
Goodnight.
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DR MBarnum - Thanks for the Christmas pics.