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March 8th, 2010
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How can you top all the celebrity sightings at the Oscars? Why of course – with stories about meeting celebrities in real life!
One of my neighbors is in his sixties, and his hobby is restoring beat-up Ford Mustangs into super-charged kick-ass beyond-your-wildest dream vehicles. He’s not immune to the occasional race against a BMW’s snobby [...]
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March 4th, 2010
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WARNING: this post may contain TMI and other bodily waste tidbits that are way beyond anything you want to read.
Then again, it’s not much worse than anything in Angela’s Ashes. So suck it up, gentle reader, and read on.
The other day my toilets backed up. Both of them were near overflowing. Like a good home [...]
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February 12th, 2010
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Romantic Valentine’s Day ideas aren’t even on my radar this year, but I still have a place in my heart for a certain special someone (or two) .
No, I’m not talking about hot French women.
For some odd reason, I really like old people.
Even the ones who get in my way, taking forever to do whatever [...]
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February 5th, 2010
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I’m exhausted. Sleep would be good. Short of that, I remind myself to just breathe.
Before I explain why just breathing is my elixir of choice, let me run down my day.
I spent the day nursing a massive head cold – I slept in, avoided work as long as possible, made one of my favorite old [...]
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January 25th, 2010
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From football playoffs, to friends and fun times (sorry, needed another F word for alliteration purposes, and I’m trying to keep this blog PG-13) – I had a friggin’ great weekend. Best of all, I got a ton of free stuff. And that, my fine friends, is fabulous.
The free finds first flowed with a friend [...]
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January 20th, 2010
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On trash pickup days, we put our recyclable materials in curbside bins: glass bottles, plastic bottles, tin and aluminum cans. The garbage company hauls them all away for recycling.
“Do we get the CRV?” my teen son asked.
California Redemption Value is a nickel for small bottles and containers, and a dime for big ones.
“No, we just [...]
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December 21st, 2009
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All right, I don’t normally write about TV shows. But this season’s Survivor: Samoa should have been won by Russell. Natalie didn’t deserve it at all. She rode Russell’s coat-tails throughout the whole game. I think the jury voted for her because Russell out-witted all of them, and they were pissed off.
One player, Eric, said [...]