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| Monday, 23-May-2005 00:00 |
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Baker's Dozen
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- "Didn't you recognize Tommy Lasorda? He was sitting right behind you?!"
Server's exclamation as I again failed to recognize Lasorda. Hey, I'm not an athletic supporter!
- Fry's is having fantastic buys as it celebrates its 20th Anniversary and I came away with bargains! 
- "Do you remember when we would do this all the time? Twenty five cents for a hot dog and soda. You can't beat that!"
Spouse and I eating lunch in the car at the Fry's parking lot and feeling like we're picnicking.
- The Volunteen celebration at spouse's job. These kids do a great job at assisting the elderly and infirm and deserved the recognition and kudos received.
- Worrying about not hearing from Nana. We've called her for two days and still no response.
- "Woo hoo, we got our $20 rebate from Sandisk!"
We religiously complete and submit our rebates.
- Knowing where Nana should be on a Saturday morning, we tracked her down. Thankfully, she and hubby are fine. She fixed us breakfast and we were on our way!
- "Shit, the parking lot's a dust bowl!"
A nasty realization.
- Attending the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in scorching 95 degrees and coming home drenched from perspiration, tired and badly sun burned.
- Doing laundry and chilling!
- Watching White Noise and finding the behind the scenes content intriguing yet, disturbing. It made my hair stand. Didn't know such people had their own societies. The film was good and reminded me a lot of The Ring.
- Movie Night: iRobot finally snared us and we all agreed it wasn't worth paying to see in the theater, let alone pay for a rental. Thank God Punky borrowed it from a friend. It's a real stinker!
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| Monday, 16-May-2005 00:00 |
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- Driving spouse to work and realizing how much I miss that time together. We decided to "have it our way" by ordering breakfast bacon croissants. Ooooh, it was so good and it felt like we were picnicking in the car.
- Spouse suggesting that I go to Fry's alone...I didn't question it. I took off and bought myself another 512 meg card for .... $19.00. I love the way technology prices keep falling. Searching for a good deal on USB hubs and not finding any. I bought a D-Link seven port USB hub for $29.99 after rebate. What a steal and I'm still hoping for another. Memorial Day give us fantastic sales!
- "Rrrrriiiiiiiippppp! as the hair leaves the skin. Oh, but it feels so smooth afterward and takes longer for the hair to grow back."
Leg waxing time.
- Long Beach is a gorgeous city at night. Even the oil rigs look like something out of Close Encounters.
- New music this week: DMB's Standing.
- Digging podcasts and seriously considering doing one.
- Spouse working the weekend and feeling lonely. It's terrible being without my soulmate.
- Rest in Peace Johnny S. Spouse's cousin died from complications of pancreatic cancer.
- Setting up the umbrella and patio furniture. We're in the high eighties and loving it!
- Movie night and again, we lucked out of watching iRobot. Emmet wanted to watch CloserT starring Julia Roberts and Jude Law. This movie was bizarre as the two central couples wind up being involved with each other. If you have cable TV, it's definitely a cable movie. The conversation was great, the companionship wonderful and the food delicious!
- I rented National Treasure and In Good Company . Hopefully, we'll watch them soon! Spouse keeps falling asleep through movies. However, just put on the Food Network or Animal Planet and I'll receive a play by play.
- I've solved my 512 meg and one gig SD card not playing in my mp3 player conundrum. Creative Technology came through via email support. I am a happy camper!
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| Monday, 9-May-2005 00:00 |
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- Rising super early and doing laundry. What the hell got into me!
- Trying to figure out the SD card and MP3 player madness. No resolution! (See last week's B12)
- Shopping at Kohl's for Mother's Day gifts. I know, me bad, very last minute shopper.
- Peering into the garage, cringing and closing the door.
- Driving to Murrieta on a semi-sunny day to visit my in-laws.
- Celebrating Mother's Day at the Hungry Hunter and feeling stuffed to the gills!
- Watching the Passion of Christ and finding its violence and gore gratuitous yet, unsettling true to the Bible.
- Gardening and planting another rose bush. A little late in the season, but it just arrived via mail order.
- "Hello."
Shy Girl: "George Lopez tickets go on sale today at 1:00 p.m. for June 12."
"Alright! Are you going?"
Shy Girl: "Don't know yet. Hubby has to work."
"Well, come with us. Talk it over and let us know."
Shy Girl: "We're on. Can you order the tickets online? I'm visiting my mom."
"It's on!
Wonderful news arrived early in the day. George Lopez in June....smashing!
- Dining at Paul's Kitchen and celebrating Mother's Day. Thankfully, we didn't over eat and Chinese cuisine digests quickly. Need lots of veggies the next few days!!
- "All the other kids made three things, but I also made my mom a stencil card. No one else wanted to, but I did. I asked my teacher and she said yes."
Lil Dude describing what he made for his mom in second grade.
- Workin' off the pounds groovin to E.U.'s Da Butt. Anyone remember this old skool tune?? Fess up and be counted!
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| Monday, 2-May-2005 00:00 |
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- Buddah was almost no more. A solid wood deck chair almost caused his demise.
- Searching the house for old Bowie CDs and still not finding them.
- "Shit, I tore my shirt!"
Spouse's observation after breakfast.
- Checking out Hot Ghetto Mess www.hotghettomess.com
- Cleaning house and feeling queasy.
- "Did you see those Toes?"
Toes hanging off the edge of one's sandals are not cute!
- "I'm sorry. I'm just not feeling well. I have to cancel tonight."
With that, our Saturday evening plans were trashed.
- Watching House of Flying Daggers and thoroughly enjoying this martial arts/love story. This film has an actual story that is not based solely on history or action. The soundtrack is quite lovely and I'm intent on finding it. Wonderful music, good story, great acrobatics, and very good acting.
- Unsuccessfully trying to rip Hotel California to my computer. The CD is Old, probably one of the first issues of the album. Is it copy protected? Everything else rips save for this one song. The CD's not scratched and is pristine.
- "I don't know how people can eat out of those little containers."
Spouse's observation of eating Chinese take out.
- Trying to solve a one gig SD card conundrum. Attempts to transfer MP3 files to a one gig card via a card reader result in the error message: "Capacity is full." This would be fine if the card was full, however, it has only 256 megs on it! I've disconnected the card reader. Shut down the computer. Reformatted and scan disked the one gig card and still, I receive the same error after it reaches 256 megs. Any ideas?
- "Oh, he's so gorgeous. Look at his coat!"
Sissy commenting my boy's beautiful coat of fur.
- Watching Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and truly enjoying it, while being intellectually stimulated. What if we could erase all our bad memories? All of the sadness? The pain? The heartache? The disappointment? Humiliation? Would you? And if you did, what Kind of person would you be today? Would you be who you are now?
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| Monday, 25-Apr-2005 00:00 |
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- Visited with a friend on the tail end of chemo therapy. She's lost all of her hair - her biggest fear - and I was so pleased to see her spirit remarkably strong. She's accepted the hair loss and is bracing for radiation and an experimental drug treatment that's supposed to improve her chances of not getting breast cancer again.
- A very cold, windy day reminiscent of winter. Brrrr!
- Yea, received my order from Amazon: Mother-in-law's CD Lackawanna Blues and Mars Voltar Frances the Mule.
- Helping a friend set up his MP3 player. I influenced his purchase: he bought the Creative Muvo C100. He's very pleased with it and will train daily listening to music. He's running in San Diego's Marathon on June 6th. Spouse also has a co-worker running the marathon, so me thinks we may be taking a road trip!
- Viewing the film Birth starring Nicole Kidman and well, I thought it was okay. Spouse didn't like it and thought it a waste of celluloid! I rented it on recommendation and believe Shy Girl must've been toking!
- The neighbors were pouding, scraping, breaking and pounding. Seems they demolished their tool shed and left a gaping hole in the fence.
- I watched spouse sand and varnish our new adirondack chairs amid the chaos and noise.
- "Who the hell paints a wall only half way up?!"
Spouse's observation of the paint job on our external walls.
- A gorgeous day perfect for a delicious sandwich from Katella Deli.
- Ripping songs from CD is tedious and time consuming. I never realized this until now. Equally challenging is deciding which ones to include.
- Viewing Finding Neverland and enjoying it so much, time just flew by. Lord, Johnny Depp is gorgeous and I can't wait for Willie Wonka!!
- The Sunday ads are a bust. What's up with that? I bet they're waiting for the Memorial Day holiday to bust out with savings.
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| Monday, 18-Apr-2005 00:00 |
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- Oh man, Pixxie delivered Hatam's and we had a delicious dinner.
- Another Bunco night with this month's theme being angels. Punky and Emett joined us for the first time and I had a blast again!
- Becca scored big by winning the $30 most Bunco's pot!
- Bailey's dog sitting Sissy and everyone's in love with her. She's so friendly and well behaved!
- It's a warm night and smooth vino goes a long way.
- "What a gorgeous morning! It's so warm, I can even go outside with my hair wet and not get sick."
Observation about the day's weather.
- Watching Hotel Rwanda and feeling sick to my stomach. I clearly remember reading about this in the paper, though, seeing it in celluloid really brought it home.
- Lazing on sunny afternoons, enjoying the outdoors and tranquility of home. Too comfortable to take a 1-1/2 drive to the Poppy Festival.
- Opening the garage door and receiving a rude reality check. That's the next vacation project.
- Homemade lasagna roll ups are da bomb!
- Big Boy so tuckered out after roaming outdoors for 3 hours, he had to nap for six!
- Punky wanting to do movie night and watch I-Robot. We're not feeling it and beg off.
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| Monday, 11-Apr-2005 00:00 |
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- A doctor's appointment, early lunch and shopping for a home cooked Italian meal on a very blustery, beautiful day.
- Sticker shock: regular unleaded is $2.51 a gallon and it cost $36.00 to fill the tank. Help!
- Bought Beck's Guero CD and am enjoying it. It has funk, rock, electronica, fusion all mixed on one CD. It's good and a steal at $9.99 at Circuit City.
- Still scouring the calendar sections for concert announcements and venues. You'd think they'd have it set by now.
- Finding out a day late that Boop's boyfriend worked security at the Staple center and could've snuck me in to U2's opening night concert!!
- Watching the commentary to Sideways and generally enjoying it. We'd already seen the movie in the theater and thoroughly enjoyed it.
- Enjoying the delicious and long overdue homemade lasagna Becca made for my birthday dinner. Everyone enjoyed it and there weren't many leftovers. Bummer!
- Receiving some really nice photos of my nephew and his wife. He doesn't take photos often and these are just outstanding. I continue praying for them and asking God to guide them.
- I scored on my birthday: I received a one gig SD card for my Muvo MP3 player, the Scott Peterson tell all book Blood Brother, a Sony cassette player (yea, I know it's old school and I'm not ashamed!), gift certificates to Circuit City, a beautiful corral necklace, and a total $100 gift certificates to ..... yea, Fry's! I will be a busy and very happy shopper!!!
- Visiting my in-laws in Murrieta. It was a gorgeous day and the winds cleared all the gunk. We could see for miles in every direction. We a great day and lots of laughter.
- Ripping tunes to my one gig SD card and enjoying figuring out which songs make the cut and which ones don't! Elton's Funeral for a Friend is going to definitely make it! I think I'm going to set them in folders by genre.
- It never fails...we wash the cars and the weather is forecast to change. It better not rain, you feeling me?
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| Monday, 4-Apr-2005 00:00 |
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- A Friday night get together with family and sumptuous crab cakes for dinner.
- It is so warm and lovely, it feels like May !
- Expenses, expenses, Expenses! My car's air flow meter needed to be changed. When does it end?
- Searching for quality podcasts of substance. Hints anyone? Also, can anyone recommend software for Windows ME?
- Rising early and getting out to the Farmer's Market. There's nothing like organic fruits and veggies.
- The Pope has passed. Certainly, a day of mourning.
- "Why don't folks just stay home!"
I have to stop visiting Home Depot on the weekend. It's too damned crowded.
- Celebrating my birthday at Market City Caffe with my neighbors and one neighbor's mom. She was visiting from Oakland and we had a great time. Everyone enjoyed the food, which made spouse and I happy, since it was the first time for everyone else!
- "Ugh! I lost an hours sleep. You know it'll be a week before I adjust."
Daylight savings time.
- Buddah on squirrel watch for two hours. It was a face off challenge with the squirrel succumbing and scrambling to another tree!
- "Oh man, refreshing pineapple sherbert. It is the bomb!"
- The Sunday ads are back and Beck has a new album. Looks like I'm coming Circuit City!
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| Monday, 28-Mar-2005 00:00 |
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- Multi-tasking and stopping by the storage unit to retrieve the fryer and miscellaneous items. After the garage, the storage unit is the next clean & clear up item on the To Do list.
- Errands with mom for Easter dinner and general shopping. Eating at our favorite Chinese restaurant. It will always remind me of our days together. Funny how associations form.
- Good Friday is usually an ugly, cold, dreary day - as it should be. This year, however, the weather's gorgeous with the sun out and a slight breeze. This has me off balance!
- Eating breakfast with a lively group and finding my Boy Scout hook-up with a woman named Helen. Her son sells delicious popcorn. The old style popcorn that you actually cook, not nuke!!
- Buying Easter chocolates for the kids and fresh strawberries.
- Why do I torture myself by shopping at Wal-Mart on a Saturday???
- Celebrating B's birthday at Outback and enjoying a peach wallaby!
- Homemade chocolate cake with chocolate mousse royal ice cream. Who's the chocoholic?
- Double torture, what's my ass doing at Home Depot during the weekend? Can a gal get a parking space?!
- Hanging out with B., having a leisurely Easter morning on our porch. No distractions. No pressing matters. Just the two of us and Buddah checking out the hood as we drank our coffee and looked at the thin, sad Sunday ads.
- I'm pleasantly surprised about how many stores are Closed this Easter Sunday. In past years, I remember stores open for business as usual.
- Having a fantastic Easter! My nephew K. is back home and we were all together for the first Easter in three years. Mom prepared a delicious brisket of beef and sis her great macaroni salad. Everyone was in good spirits and we were cracking up because we discussed a variety of things. We're never at a loss for words. K. just looked like "Nothing's changed!".
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| Monday, 21-Mar-2005 00:00 |
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- It's raining Again and I have errands to run and don't feel like battling the traffic.
- Preparing for Becca's birthday celebration by ordering the mac n cheese, buying sodas, etc.
- Hustling and washing the den blinds. The den's a complete transformation and I know B's proud!
- Feeling light headed and unsteady but no time to slow down. I've got a project to finish, a birthday to plan for and an anniversary to celebrate! I don't like the tingling sensation I'm experiencing.
- Close to the project's completion, we reward ourselves by dining on Thai food. Delicious chicken coconut soup, pad thai and spicy fried rice.
- Celebrating Becca's birthday with good company, delicious food (ribs, cornbread and fresh green beans), lots of conversation, great gifts and much joy. The ice cream turned out great!
- Baby Layla joined the celebration and is adorable. She remained calm and collected throughout the birthday celebration. She never fussed. Never had a tantrum. Nothing! She's a very content and quiet five month old baby.
- "Damn, a pot hole almost swallowed my tire."
Astute observation about the state of our roads.
- Shopping at Fry's for music. Redeemed my rain check for the soundtrack to the movie Ray and bought CSN's Greatest Hits.
- "This place is always a madhouse! Why?"
Spouse's observation at Fry's.
- Happy 25th Anninversary to us! May we have many more and may God bless our union with good health and happiness! We had a fabulous brunch, replete with a string quartet that performed Beatles standards!
- Watching Lizard on VHS. Yea, VHS. It's an Iranian film with English subtitles about a prisoner who truly believes that God has forsaken him. He is hell bent on carrying on in a criminal way and thinks only of himself. A man of the cloth (a Hajib) allows Lizard to steal his clothes from the hospital and escape. Lizard then learns that masquerading as a "man of the cloth" has its own responsibilities and honor. An excellent story if you get a chance to see it.
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