Tag Archive: Blogging


>The crud abounds.

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November 9, 2008

>Almost everyone here is sick. Only myself, D, Em and Fred went to church today. When I got there (I took my own car), Em was sitting by herself. She whispered to me, “Fred got sick, D had to take him home.” I thought Fred already had this and got over it. Oh well. So I am hiding out in my room because I don’t want it either. Besides, I also have the new James Bond DVD to watch because it is due back tomorrow.

Em asked if I thought she should take some Aleve and lie down, or push herself and go work out. I suggested she should lie down, after all I want to go with her and I wanted to check out my blogs and check my e-mail etc and etc.

So now I am doing that, then I will work out, and then dye my hair, then I don’t know what, since I take my contacts out when I dye my hair, I am not going to want to go anywhere. Maybe then I will watch my movie.

I decided to take the list of types of books in the challenge and compare them to my list of TBR books. That will help me decide which books to read for the challenge.

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>Just when you thought it was safe,

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November 8, 2008

>Beer Chips!

I saw a post about these on another blog, the blogger is in Missouri, or Mississippi, so I googled ‘beer chips’ and found a website, you can see it by clicking on this link. There is a ‘chip locator’ on the website, so you can find out where to buy these chips in your area. I put in my home address zip code and my work zip code and there is a store in NYC that sells them! I don’t think I will buy them though, given the trouble I have with beer.

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>Internet problems

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November 7, 2008

>I keep trying to get on WW my posts but I can’t. I think it is a problem with the website because I can get to my G-mail account and I just read Sarah’s blog. So for now I can’t see if anyone else has posted a message to me. I have to get lunch soon. I don’t know if I will get a sandwich or salad. I am tired of salad, it is too hot in here for soup. Maybe some Mac-n-cheese. Well gotta run.

I ended up getting a City Light, it is avocado, mozzarella cheese, tomato and olive oil. I don’t know if it is actually ‘light’ or not, but I kind of like it.

Em picked me up. She went to Mr. Mc retirement party. Someone where she works is causing a lot of trouble and bad times for her. Makes me mad.

When I got home, there was a package for me. I was surprised, it was the book from LibraryThing. The last book took so long to get here and this one so soon! I just finished Dewey so it is good timing.

This is from LibraryThing:

On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished…. Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… In it, lovingly wrapped, is one of Jens’ sandals—sandals Julia Davidsson put on her son’s feet that very last morning. …

Now, with only a handful of clues, Julia and her father are questioning islanders who were present the day Jens vanished—and making a shocking connection to Öland’s most notorious murder case: the killing spree of a wealthy young man who fled the island and died years before Jens was even born. Suddenly the island that once seemed so achingly familiar turns strange and dangerous… Until Julia finds herself facing truths she never imagined—about what really happened on that September day twenty years ago, about who may have crossed paths with little Jens in the fog, and how a child could truly vanish without a trace…until now.

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Lake Placid

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October 28, 2008

1294lakeplacid081028They have internet (WiFi) in the rooms here. Good thing because I can’t get a signal in the room we are having our training in. Training is over for today, dinner is in 15 minutes so I will have to go and come back later. I just opened the door to my ‘balcony’ its about a foot wide, and took this picture. Yes, its real snow.

So I am back now, and if you knew what time it was or how much I had to drink, you would be saying, go to bed girl! I think this classifies as drunk blogging. We played this game after dinner, then a bunch of us went to a bar, then another bar, cause the first bar closed. The first bar had a beer called Just Hutched (the brewers name is Hutch and he just got married) and it had lavender in it. I just put on my lavender lotion and it is making me think of it. Now it is 1 a.m. and I just got out of the bath and my head is somewhere else, but not on my shoulders I am sure. It is too hot in this room. I know that for sure.

I was going to say that this morning the sky went from black, (and raining) to gray (and raining) then it was ta da! White, and snowing. Then when I got to where the training was it was back to gray. I saw the ski jumps where the Olympians train, tomorrow I am going to try to get a picture of them. I also want to get some pictres of Lake Placid. So far the only souvenir I have is a token from the bar we went to. And I only have that because Brian bought me my second beer.

Addio

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>Work trip

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October 27, 2008

>Tomorrow I go to Lake Placid, they are forecasting snow. They gave me an Impala, I hope I don’t wreak it. I have the address already in my GPS and I checked the cigarette lighter to make sure it worked. Then I almost got lost coming home because I forgot to change the destination to home and when I realized it, I had no idea where I was. I knew I was near Tarrytown, but that was about it. I quickly changed it and got back on the right road home. Now I need to pack for tomorrow, but I really don’t feel like it, I want to wait until Gwen gets home so I can show her how to treat her coat.

I have given up on Gwen, she can figure out how to treat her coat herself. My eyes hurt from my contacts and I forgot my eye drops last night so they are really bugging me. I just bit my tongue so hard I had to go upstairs and get a spoonful of ice chips for it, and I still have to pack! I really don’t have to pack much, I am only staying overnight. I am just nervous going all the way up there by myself. Sometimes I think I shouldn’t watch so much TruTV, then I would scare myself so bad!

For some reason my labels are not working. I have to show them and click on them when I used to be able to just start typing the name and they showed up, maybe I made too many. I am taking my computer with me, I don’t know if I will have internet access, but if I do, I will be posting. If I don’t I will be sending e-mail from my phone and have to clean them up when I get back.

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>Hello

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October 25, 2008

>It is evening and I am not feeling so great. Earlier tonight I took Tigger to Verizon because his phone is giving him problems so now he is getting a new phone which he is not exactly happy about because he thinks the enV is garbage. So now we have to wait and see if this phone works or if it tanks on Tigger. He thinks the enV just doesn’t like him! I didn’t really just take him, I wanted to get ice cream, so I asked him to come with. He said he would, so I went to Cold Stone Creamery which is next to the Verizon Store.

So I am watching Forensic Files right now, it is one I haven’t seen yet. So I will talk to you later. I was wrong, I had seen the Forensic Files before. However, there was one after that which I had not seen and the satellite signal was lost before it ended. So I don’t know how they proved their case. Gwen was down in the basement then since the boys were being ‘mean’ to her. Both of us were waiting for Primeval to come on. Hoping the signal would come back before it started. It came back within a few minutes of it starting.

Today was just spent sleeping in and then shopping. I got new jeans and eyeliner. I don’t like the purple Lancôme eyeliner I have, Em couldn’t find the right shade of red in Lancôme so we both ended up at the M.A.C. counter and found what we wanted. I told her, M.A.C. is my favorite right after Lancôme.

I have 500 hits on my blog. I am sure a lot of those are from me posting and tweaking my posts until they look like I want them to. But still, it means some are reading. Maybe insomniacs? LOL!

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>NYC Bound

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October 18, 2008

>YAY! All I had planned to do today was take my car to get some work done and go get a flu shot. M started texting me that she wanted to go to the city. Of course, you know I am always up for a trip to the city. Right now she is working but when she gets off we will be on our way there! I still have time to get my car and get my flu shot, in fact I should be getting a phone call about my car anytime now. If I don’t get a flu shot that is not a tragedy I can get it another day.

When looking at other people’s blogs, I get jealous sometimes. They seem so polished and accomplished. They write these long blogs about something, I look at mine and it seems to be a jumble of thoughts. I realize it is because I am committed (some would say I need to be committed) to posting everyday. I don’t always have something to talk about so I just post whatever thoughts are coming into my head, that’s why it is a jumble.

I was thinking about that as I was walking back from dropping off my car. That I could run all these thoughts in my head into one coherent essay about my life on a Saturday morning. How I had to drop M sweater off so she could work on it while she was at work, and how it was too cold for what I was wearing and I was freezing so I stopped at DD’s to get something to eat and wait for it to warm up a bit. And how I hate it when a place changes its menu. Like at DD they have these egg white flat bread breakfast sandwiches I like to get. But they have added regular flat bread sandwiches and that is what they gave me because I didn’t realize I had to specify what kind of flat bread sandwich I wanted. Anyway, I have to go now because Tigger wants songs and I have to get my car and M keeps texting me and I have to put make-up on to go to Manhattan.

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>Hello friends

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October 17, 2008

>Sending from my phone again. I ate my tomatoes as a mid-morning snack and i had three biscuits(cookies). That did the trick, I was able to go to the bathroom. I need to finish this quick so I can get my mail before C gets back from his lunch cause he annoys me.

Tigger thanked me for the music. Said it made him ‘happy’. Except he also tells me he is always happy. But hey, whatever he says I am cool with it.

So someone posted a blank post, I did too but I just copied her/him, can’t tell when the name is Merd. Melva hasn’t posted in a while and Cookie didn’t post yesterday so I don’t know what to think.

Sometimes I think I would be better off if I didn’t have to eat, then I wouldn’t have to spend so much time in the bathroom! Then again, I send e-mails whenever I am in here so I don’t really have anything to complain about.

Someone came over from Redlady’s blog and signed my guestbook!

Yay!

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>Guest Reviewer

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October 15, 2008

>I was a guest reviewer on Bonnie-Red Lady‘s blog. I reviewed Hell Bent. Go to her blog and check it out!

And now that I have read and reviewed it, I would like to give it away. To enter my giveaway and win a hard bound, in like new condition of Hell Bent by William G. Tapply, please post a comment here and sign my guest book, scroll to the bottom for the guest book, if you have a blog, post about the giveaway on your blog and link the post to your comment. If you don’t have a blog, be sure to leave your e-mail address. The deadline is October 29, 2008 and is limited to US residents due to shipping costs.

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>Tuesday Thingers

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October 14, 2008

>This is the first time that I’ve participated in the Tuesday Thingers weekly question. Marie from The Boston Bibliophile hosts this fun meme.

Today’s question: Early Reviewers- do you participate? How many books (approximately) have you received through the program? Have you liked them generally? What’s your favorite ER book? Do you participate in the discussion group on LT?

I joined Early Reviewers in August of this year and got a book the first time out. I have just finished it and have not as yet written my review but will be before the weekend. I liked this book ‘Hell Bent’ by William G. Tapply but since I have only got one book I can’t answer the favorite question. I don’t usually participate in the discussion group.

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