Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 21, 2016, 12:03:00 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a BFD, and now it is time for you to post until the BFD cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: OROTUND!
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First post after BK!
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First post after TCB's first post!
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George, are you almost finished with your Christmas shopping?
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T.O.D.
Putting aside hopes for a more perfect world ( world peace, an end to hunger), what do you want Santa to bring you, personally, for Christmas?
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George, are you almost finished with your Christmas shopping?
My family exchanged names so we each only have to get gifts for one person.
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George, are you almost finished with your Christmas shopping?
My family exchanged names so we each only have to get gifts for one person.
What about shopping for friends?
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T.O.D.
Putting aside hopes for a more perfect world ( world peace, an end to hunger), what do you want Santa to bring you, personally, for Christmas?
A two-week, round trip cruise from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and back.
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George, are you almost finished with your Christmas shopping?
My family exchanged names so we each only have to get gifts for one person.
I wish my family would do that.
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Well, good night, George.
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George, are you almost finished with your Christmas shopping?
My family exchanged names so we each only have to get gifts for one person.
What about shopping for friends?
Actually, I haven't exchanged gifts with very many friends. I don't know why. :-\
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Well, good night, George.
Good night, Tom.
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Well since I have had it up to here with working I would like Santa to bring me a winning lottery ticket with enough winnings to be able to walk away from my job and never have to work again. I don't need to live like a millionaire but it would be nice to be able to fix the house up a little, and be able to see the occasional Broadway show and to travel to see family and friends
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Good morning, all!
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Count me in on the Kay Cole album. When will it be up on the Kritzerland page (or did miss that piece of information)?
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DR vixmom, I'm with you! A winning lottery ticket would be just the perfect Christmas gift. I've got a list of musicals I want to record before I die, and time's a-wastin'!
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I have no plans today. Joshie has computer problems, so I'm not going to City Center as I had planned. I think I may work on Guys & Dolls a bit
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Good morning, all.
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Santa just brought me a morning without getting up and donning a tux an hour before dawn!
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So, first wish taken care of.
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Wednesday morning greetings! I will be E & T most of today. In an hour I'm having my hair permed so that I don't have to fuss with it during my eye surgeries. From there I will go directly to the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate Becky's birthday over lunch. I may try to finish up Christmas shopping before I come home.
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Good morning, all.
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Santa just brought me a morning without getting up and donning a tux an hour before dawn!
:)
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I'll settle for good tests results, though I don't know that Santa works for a diagnostic lab.
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Just bled for the cause. Now I'm waiting for an oil change.
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TCB, I've heard the argument, too, against gift cards. The recipient sees just how much you spent on them, etc. I think it may be somewhat generational. Usually when I get a gift card (and it is rare), it's for a business I don't generally patronize, so I'm not always thrilled with them.
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I like gift cards.
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Time the The Announcement!
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I am sorry to say that I do not like E.T. The Extraterrestrial.....and even though it comes with the highest recommendation possible, nothing could induce me to see BFG.
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CD ORDERED!
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I am sorry to say that I do not like E.T. The Extraterrestrial.....and even though it comes with the highest recommendation possible, nothing could induce me to see BFG.
I thought I was alone in that regard.
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I guess my disappointment with ET was that I was expecting an intimate story and resolution like JAWS, and we got the entire damned ARMY against a couple of little kids.
It's the same problem - the EXACT same problem - I have with POLTERGEIST and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS.....they all suddenly become our heroes against the entire GD world.....
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Well, I loved E.T. I haven't seen it in years, but I sure loved it in 1982.
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I'm up, I'm up - CD has been announced. Here are the vitals:
Kritzerland is proud to present the debut solo album from the original Maggie from A Chorus Line:
KAY COLE - SOUVENIR
Musical Direction by John Boswell
In 1975, A Chorus Line took Broadway by storm and ran a then astonishing fifteen years, at that time the longest running musical in history. Featured in that original brilliant company was a diminutive powerhouse named Kay Cole as Maggie. In the song “At The Ballet,” composer Marvin Hamlisch wrote her one of the greatest money notes in history and when Kay hit it it was like the heavens opened – it was a great Broadway voice of incredible purity and power, but also subtlety and nuance.
Kay was already a musical theater veteran by that time. As a young performer she’d played Amaryllis in the first national tour of The Music Man with Forrest Tucker, she’d been on Broadway and the tour of the original production of Bye Bye Birdie, she’d co-starred opposite the then-just-starting-out Liza Minnelli in Best Foot Forward, she did Stop the World, I Want to Get Off with Anthony Newley, and she was in the original cast of Newley’s The Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd. A few years later she did Hair, Jesus Christ, Superstar, and I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road.
It’s taken a little over forty years for Kay to do her first solo album. Why? Well, back in the day of A Chorus Line they simply weren’t doing that kind of album. And then Kay began a successful career as a director/choreographer, making only occasional appearances. A long friendship with record producer Bruce Kimmel would always result in conversations about doing an album, but other jobs came and went and time marched on – but the album was always something both wanted to do. In 2013 Kimmel convinced Kay to come guest star in one of his monthly Kritzerland cabaret shows (now in their sixth year), and that performance was so magical, that she came back several times to enchant audiences there. And conversations about the album began again. And finally, here it is.
Kay Cole – Souvenir is an intensely personal journey through songs that resonate with Kay and that she loves singing. A true collaboration between her, producer Bruce Kimmel, and John Boswell, her amazing musical director, the CD is filled with great songs – some Broadway, some pop, but all wonderfully melodic, funny, touching, and lovingly sung. The voice, the purity, the power, the subtlety, the nuance is all there. There are songs from shows she’s done (Bye Bye Birdie, Best Foot Forward and, of course, A Chorus Line – singing the song that was actually supposed to be sung by her originally but wasn’t), along with an eclectic and great selection of others by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, Carly Simon, Billy Joel, Al Dubin and Harry Warren, and other greats.
It’s been a long time coming, but we hope you’ll agree that the wait was worth it.
Kay Cole – Souvenir is priced at $19.98, plus shipping.
NOTE: THE FIRST 100 ORDERS RECEIVED WILL GET A SIGNED COPY AT NO EXTRA CHARGE. IF THAT INTERESTS YOU WE RECOMMEND ORDERING IMMEDIATELY, AS WE WILL GO IN THE STRICT ORDER IN WHICH ORDERS ARE RECEIVED.
ATTENTION INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTORS: FOR THIS RELEASE – IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE THIS CD YOU NEED TO OPT-IN BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL OPTING IN PRIOR TO THE DATE IT SHIPS – SEND TO kritzerland@gmail.com. IF YOU DON’T WISH TO RECEIVE IT, YOU DON”T NEED TO DO ANYTHING. IF YOU ARE NOT AN INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTOR, ORDER AS YOU NORMALLY WOULD. THANK YOU.
CDs will ship by the second week of February, but we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Well, I loved E.T. I haven't seen it in years, but I sure loved it in 1982.
I did, too, at the Dome and the Picwood. Great times.
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I decided to launder my bedding, which really was overdue. Some ass ahead of me is taking their time finishing up theirs and it's starting to piss me off.
A lot.
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I think I didn't care for ET had to do with being a teenager when it came out. I didn't care about the kids back then. I haven't had much desire to find out if I've changed with time.
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I loved ET then and I love it now, and not just because I'm in it :)
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This morning we went to the Texas Ranger museum and then to the Waco Mammoth National Monument.
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We are now driving to Fredericksburg and it is 68 degrees 😄
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T.O.D.
Putting aside hopes for a more perfect world ( world peace, an end to hunger), what do you want Santa to bring you, personally, for Christmas?
A two-week, round trip cruise from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and back.
Sounds nice. I would like to fly to Hawaii and then cruise around the islands.
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Tom did you google weighted blankets?
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Excellent test result Vibes for DR John!
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Keith and I love E.T.
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We are driving on a four lane highway that we would expect a speed limit of 55. Not in Texas, it is 75.
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Mr BK is the best thing in ET. I am happy so many DR's enjoy the film.
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We stopped for a short walk in Johnson City, birthplace of Lyndon B. The old courthouse and the bank across the street are pretty. It is a small town with only 1,700 folks.
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Good afternoon.
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I hardly buy any Christmas gifts any more -- and that's fine with me!
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I got my daughter-in-law some really nice earrings and my son got a gift card to Lowe's. If he doesn't want anything, my DIL can spend it. ;-)
My daughter got a trip to Disneyland last month. Mother-in-law and sister got flowers delivered.
That's it!
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And yet it still all cost a bundle!
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Disneyland alone costs a bundle these days!
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I shall shortly be off to my last engagement.
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We stopped for a short walk in Johnson City, birthplace of Lyndon B. The old courthouse and the bank across the street are pretty. It is a small town with only 1,700 folks.
Home to one of my favorite BBQ joints in the state, Ronnie's Pit BBQ.
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If you had a choice, would you rather not buy presents any more or not receive presents?
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Test result vibes to JohnG!
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Back from a breakfast burrito and picking up packages. It's trying to rain, but being LA is just playing at it. Let it come and wash away all the everything bad.
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Okay, I find myself with spare copies of a couple of things - one my fault, one Amazon's. So, first person to PM gets them and believe me you should get them.
Thing one is a two-CD set of the Rachmaninov symphonies and Vocalise. Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in what are considered definitive performances of these works (save for the then standard small cuts to the second symphony) - amazing sound. Ten dollars plus shipping.
SACD Hybrid (plays in all players), the Cesar Franck Symphony in D-minor and Stravinsky's Petroushka - conducted by Pierre Monteux, the CD I was raving about yesterday. RCA Living Stereo - the SACD layer is three-channel and spectacular, and the CD layer uses than new master and also sounds amazing. $8.00
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I just sent a PM. I wonder if it was in time. ;D
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PAGE THREE DANCE!!
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Well since I have had it up to here with working I would like Santa to bring me a winning lottery ticket with enough winnings to be able to walk away from my job and never have to work again. I don't need to live like a millionaire but it would be nice to be able to fix the house up a little, and be able to see the occasional Broadway show and to travel to see family and friends
Vixmom, you certainly deserve it!!
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DR vixmom, I'm with you! A winning lottery ticket would be just the perfect Christmas gift. I've got a list of musicals I want to record before I die, and time's a-wastin'!
Ditto to Larry! Hope you BOTH get winning lottery tickets!!
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I loved ET then and I love it now, and not just because I'm in it :)
...in a small, but pivotal role.
;)
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If you had a choice, would you rather not buy presents any more or not receive presents?
Both, essentially. The thing is, I buy myself what I want, so people can't really get me anything that I want or even need. So, gift cards are great...but some people (not in my family, though) just overdo it with EVERYTHING. It's all just too much.
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Just my 2¢.
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I got my daughter-in-law some really nice earrings and my son got a gift card to Lowe's. If he doesn't want anything, my DIL can spend it. ;-)
My daughter got a trip to Disneyland last month. Mother-in-law and sister got flowers delivered.
That's it!
It is more than we do anymore.
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Disneyland alone costs a bundle these days!
It does. DR Laura are you going with her?
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If you had a choice, would you rather not buy presents any more or not receive presents?
Not receive.
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DR vixmom, I'm with you! A winning lottery ticket would be just the perfect Christmas gift. I've got a list of musicals I want to record before I die, and time's a-wastin'!
Ditto to Larry! Hope you BOTH get winning lottery tickets!!
DITTO!
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I used to shop for Christmas all year, buying things I thought people would like and saving them. 99% of my shopping was done by Thanksgiving and the cards were ready to mail.. I then focused on baking, making a good sized gingerbread house, wrapping and shipping or delivering gifts. Of course there was the tree to buy and decorate. I also had Bryans birthday party to plan and prepare for. I LOVED it all. It became harder and harder to find the right gifts and the fun kind of went out of Christmas without the boys home. Now we do nothing and go away. That is a different kind of fun and I enjoy all the decorations when we travel.
I am not exhausted after Christmas anymore 😃
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DR George, thank you for the DVDs! They arrived in today's post.
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I've had Chinese food for dinner and i'm going to watch a BBC series I've never heard of starring Toby Stephens, Vexed. I finished up Season 3 of A Place to Call Home last night. What an ender! All hell broke loose.
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DR vixmom, I'm with you! A winning lottery ticket would be just the perfect Christmas gift. I've got a list of musicals I want to record before I die, and time's a-wastin'!
Ditto to Larry! Hope you BOTH get winning lottery tickets!!
I need a Big win to set up a foundation to restore and record period musicals and to train someone besides Joshe to take over when I croak.
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Lottery Win Vibes for DR ELMORE and DR VIXMOM.
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It was indeed.
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DR George, thank you for the DVDs! They arrived in today's post.
Great!
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Hiccuping going on here?
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Posts taking a long time.
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Connecting, too, but it's very sporadic - now it's fine.
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Now it's not.
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I've alerted the media.
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Waiting for the afternoon meeting - sometime between now and five. Really want it to be quick and suspect it will be an hour. Got a screener for something called Moonlight.
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I'll have to watch ET again to see BK!
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Lottery vibes for DRs elmore and vixmom!
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I will be shuffling off to Buffalo tomorrow. It looks like there should be no weather problems here or there.
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Where is page 4?
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I think I see it.
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Page 4!
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DR Kate got a few things for me to give our great niece. I'll have to get presents for our great nephew. And gift cards for everyone else.
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Count me among those who like gift cards.
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Barbra is doing an interview in LA on January 5th. It's a fundraiser for the Grammy Museum. I was thinking of going but seem to have come to my senses.
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I loved ET then and I love it now, and not just because I'm in it :)
You're in ET?
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I loved it but I haven't watche sit in years. I. Amy have to pull it out and watch it again
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Santa just brought me a morning without getting up and donning a tux an hour before dawn!
I must admit there has not been one single day in my life where I had to don a tuxedo before dawn
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One must count ones blessings
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Thank you all for the lottery vibes, now I suppose I should do my part, like buy a ticket or two
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Tonight I went to my dentist and was fitted with the titanium base for my inplants
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More moulds were taken with any luck I wil have teeth by January 4th
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Well that sure stopped the conversation
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Well that sure stopped the conversation
Been there. Done that, too.
;)
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And now, I must be leaving. I'm not going directly home, though. Since tonight is the winter solstice, my friend pug is having her annual Yule feast! She invites just about everyone she knows and has a (mostly) potluck dinner. She usually fixes some kind of Indian food. I don't know why. I'm not a particular fan of Indian food, but there'll certainly be something for everyone. I'm bringing a box of various flavors of Trader Joe's Jo-Joes cookies for a dessert item. It'll definitely be a fun evening!
Until later!
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More moulds were taken with any luck I wil have teeth by January 4th
Great!
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I usually find the shortest day of the year a bit depressing, not tonight. The charming town of Fredericksburg is filled with beautiful Christmas lights.
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Tonight we ate at an Italian restaurant. We had an appetizer of artichoke hearts fried in a light flaky batter, delicious.
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If it weren't for my brief appearance in ET, ET would not know to "phone home."
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Went to Gelson's and got a snack - just a salad with 0 calories.
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I watched Moonlight, about which more later. I was so ready to shut it off and I was so happy I didn't have to.
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I used to shop for Christmas all year, buying things I thought people would like and saving them. 99% of my shopping was done by Thanksgiving and the cards were ready to mail.. I then focused on baking, making a good sized gingerbread house, wrapping and shipping or delivering gifts. Of course there was the tree to buy and decorate. I also had Bryans birthday party to plan and prepare for. I LOVED it all. It became harder and harder to find the right gifts and the fun kind of went out of Christmas without the boys home. Now we do nothing and go away. That is a different kind of fun and I enjoy all the decorations when we travel.
I am not exhausted after Christmas anymore 😃
I like your thinking.
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I usually find the shortest day of the year a bit depressing, not tonight. The charming town of Fredericksburg is filled with beautiful Christmas lights.
I love Fredericksburg at Christmas. Gorgeous little town. Great barbecue and German food to be had. And the wildflower farm. And the wineries. And the herb farm ...
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We had a posada at church tonight. It's the Mexican tradition of following Mary and Joseph about as they search for an inn or someplace where she can have the baby. There was a mariachi band performing the carols and the kids had their pageant. It was really nice. And we had a better turnout than I had expected.
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I just took another batch of tarts out of the oven. I'm exhausted.
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I've just put Wiener-Dog on. I didn't know Marc Shaiman wrote a title song for the movie. "The Ballad of Wiener-Dog."
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I watched Moonlight, about which more later. I was so ready to shut it off and I was so happy I didn't have to.
I hear it's very depressing. Not sure I want that right now.
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Started listening to Christmas musicals today. Got through The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Elf. Here's Love, A Christmas Story, She Loves Me and a few more to go.
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That's about all I have in me today.
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But before I go ...
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One more ...
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Five!
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It's funny, but I didn't find it depressing at all - at every step it just kept confounding my expectations of where it would go, and that's a good thing.
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It finally started to really rain - cleanse this crap away, that's what I say. Redemptive rain, that's what I say.
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Listening to George Duning's amazing score for Toys in the Attic.
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Good evening!
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Today was not a very good day.
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I made it to lunch, but was in so much pain that I couldn't even go next door to get my sister a gift card.
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I did stop at the grocery store to get some of the things I needed for my shrimp dip for Christmas Day.
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Then I came home and went to bed.
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I am awake now.
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I will see how I feel tomorrow.
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I usually find the shortest day of the year a bit depressing, not tonight. The charming town of Fredericksburg is filled with beautiful Christmas lights.
I love Fredericksburg at Christmas. Gorgeous little town. Great barbecue and German food to be had. And the wildflower farm. And the wineries. And the herb farm ...
Wildflower Farm, not at this time of year? I will have to look it up. I think our day will easily be spent exploring the town tomorrow, if I am not sick. I don't think dinner agreed with me.
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Hopefully better than today.
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The weatherman just said that we might have a small snow episode early Christmas Eve morning.
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That would be kind of fun - briefly.
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Page five? Really?
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Listening to George Duning's Is There No Truth in Beauty Star Trek score - beautiful.
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It was very, very nice without having good to wear 5 layers of clothes.
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DR TCB, VIBES YOU ARE IN LESS PAIN TOMORROW. That wish is for everyone that is hurting.
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DR TCB, VIBES YOU ARE IN LESS PAIN TOMORROW. That wish is for everyone that is hurting.
Thank you, Jane.
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I want some good Mexican food.
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Actually, I would settle for Taco Time.
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I still need a couple ingredients for the shrimp dip, plus I completely forgot chips.
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Better to remember it now than 8:00 p.m. Christmas Eve.
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I made it to lunch, but was in so much pain that I couldn't even go next door to get my sister a gift card.
Oh, no. :(
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DR TCB, VIBES YOU ARE IN LESS PAIN TOMORROW. That wish is for everyone that is hurting.
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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The Yule feast was quite fun tonight.
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There was a lot of food and a lot of people having a lot of fun.
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DR TCB, VIBES YOU ARE IN LESS PAIN TOMORROW. That wish is for everyone that is hurting.
~~~DITTO!!~~~
Thanks, George.
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The box of various flavors of Trader Joe's Jo-Joes cookies was a hit. They all got ett. :)
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SIX!!
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The box of various flavors of Trader Joe's Jo-Joes cookies was a hit. They all got ett. :)
That's great.
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The box of various flavors of Trader Joe's Jo-Joes cookies was a hit. They all got ett. :)
That's great.
And they were. I figured that they'd be good, so I actually got another box to bring to my parents' house on Christmas Eve. :D