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I am in my 30's, married and have recently, finally, become a mama. I am a smug mama, because I have two wonderful, healthy, happy, and secure children and I feel that this comes from stellar parenting:). Join me as I post about my life and the joys of being the mama! 2010 has been full of wonderful memories and full o...
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breastmilk was Smug - Baby's best medicine (did I post on here about her diaper rash? She had scratched herself so deeply that it got infected and was starting to ooze puss. I thought that perhaps I should take her to the doctor, but it was the Christmas holiday and everything was closed. I decided to put some breastmi...
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stairs. What woke her was sitting her seat down on the floor. She was awake and played until 11: 30!! I am constantly annoyed by holiday ads. The TV commercials that tell us that we need to purchase several expensive and extravagant items in order to show our loved ones that we love them. Now, as much as I hate that we...
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making jokes with the customer who thought getting Red Velvet cupcakes would be better than eating the whole cake by herself. I was laughing with the cashier who carded me for some wine (I'm 34 so that never happens anymore). I was / am really happy. Really excited for all the cooking that I need to do today and prepar...
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every time but every now and then she will give in and point to her nose or mine or smug - sister's. She waves and says "hi" to people all the time now. Its not a bending finger wave, more like a parade wave and she waves at everyone. People in the retirement community with Gramps lives, people in the grocery store, th...
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taken the kitchen trash can bag and set it on the back porch - he called this collecting and taking out the trash. Never mind that the bathroom can was overflowing or that the cans in our bedroom and Smug - Baby's bedroom were getting full! Beyond this, he had fully taken apart the free - standing cabinet in the kitche...
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no idea why he was there, how he got there or anything. He was full of various drugs including a huge dose of insulin which had put him in a comma. That could easily have been or even still could be my brother. We, his family, have no idea where he spends his time, who with, nothing! I miss my brother. I miss that litt...
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I figured she would wake up while I was snapping pictures, but she slept. I spent some quality time this weekend worrying about how to pay for Christmas. I worried about the gifts already purchased and the gifts still left to purchase. I worried about the cost of the food that would be made, the cost of stamps for Chri...
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I wanted and my baby still had problems and I wrestle with the "what if's" all the time. What if I hadn't had my membranes swept? What if I had done the home birth? Perhaps the midwife would have handled the cord issue better, perhaps Smug - Baby would have nursed right after birth and aspirated breast milk which may h...
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herself up on it and talking up a storm to her little cousin. Then, Smug - Niece began to be unhappy confined, so I unzipped the cover to find a red ball, a beaded necklace and a jar of peanut butter all hiding in the confines of the car seat with the baby. I figured out that Smug - Baby had been showing her cousin all...
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Christmas tree and we spent the day decorating the house and tree. When I got back from my evening visit with Gramps, the whole house was lit up and looking lovey! Smug - Baby liked the tree OK, but didn't try to pull herself up on it or anything. I did stop decorating it about two feet from the bottom, so she would no...
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protect our children from growing up thinking that it's OK to treat others badly! I had dinner with someone last night who has recently had his heart broken. He is dealing, but conflicted and it sounds like the woman is conflicted as well. They still talk and are trying to do the friend thing, but it is hard on him to ...
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having the family I always wanted, I started to enjoy my life, myself and worked on making myself happy and strong and whole. By the time I met my husband, I was happy with myself and totally at peace in my life. I was perfect and complete and he was just gravy on this great life I had created. I know now that I was ge...
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It strikes me that I never posted the link to Kira, a student film I worked on last year. It certainly has its flaws, but I am very proud of the work done by everyone involve in the project. This was nearly a full time job for many people involved, and Kira went from initial concept to finished project in just nine mon...
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dating Elsie, but even most of that was secondhand info. On the whole, Brian seemed like a mostly ok guy. Elsie seemed to enjoy being around him, so I was happy for her. Honestly, though, I didn't pay that much attention to Elsie and Brian's relationship. I had other things on my mind at the time. I had other friends, ...
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, but it got him enough money to keep up rent on his apartment, keep food on the table, and keep the cable TV coming in. I think that's all he did after a day on his feet: flop down in the easy chair and zone out to SportsCenter. But again, there wasn't anything inherently wrong about that. I think he wasn't really sur...
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was mostly just because my parents were. I never gave much thought to it one way or the other. I just was. So how to respond to a statement like that? I don't really know why that's stuck with me, but it has. Maybe it's because it has stuck with Elsie, even though I don't think she knows it. If you were to have asked h...
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of the flyers caught my eye. I grabbed it and held onto it through graduation. It was for a women's temple of some Taoist sect. Anyways, you know how I was. I didn't have a clue what I was going to do once school was through. I lasted about a week at home before I realized I couldn't stand sitting around under my paren...
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the two of us. The first couple of times we were out I had tried to make small talk. Maybe I was trying to talk enough for the both of us, but whatever I said only ever seemed empty. No matter how much I jabbered, Elsie never responded past a small nod to acknowledge that she had heard me, so I soon embraced the peacef...
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body still shook, but she regained enough control to talk. "Last week, I was sitting at home after trying to call my mom again. She never picked up in the 14 times I tried." Another sob racked her breath. "I tried to call you, but I guess you were at work. I've been teetering on the edge of control for so long, and I j...
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Hye was waiting for her usual bus at the usual bus stop near her work place. It was late at night, almost 10pm. She was all alone. But, what she didn't realize was that she wasn't exactly all alone. There was someone who was watching her from afar, and another someone who was watching her from over the glass. Both of t...
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. It was a busy place. She took a glance around her surroundings. Then, she saw that she was being escorted by a lot of people behind her. "Why are you in a daze? You want me to hold your hand?" With that, the guy held her hand and dragged her to walk forward. "But, still …" That guy placed both of his hands on her sho...
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and it was dark in the night. She was all alone. She had a piece of her outer clothing wrapped up over her head in order to cover her face. She took each step forward with much cautious. She had ran out of somewhere, onto this street, in search for something. In the dream, Hye kept walking and none of the street lights...
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her wallet and phone and was about to leave when the door bell rang. "It has been paid for. The address is correct. Do you have someone by the name of …" Hye glanced at the receipt that the person was holding and saw her own name. "That's me!" Hye shouted out, without realizing that she was being too excited about a lu...
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is gone, she get out of bed to get changed. She ran out of her house, onto the main street and found JaeJoong walking. She followed him but wondered to herself if that's how ghost travel - by walking. She followed him quite closely but kept a distance so that JaeJoong wouldn't know that he had been followed. She felt l...
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You are a threat. You're not supposed to know anything. But, I stayed for you. "JaeJoong said, stopping now and then to check that his words are clear to Hye." I have to do this every night. It drains my energy. I'm always with you during the day. But, I need to rest too, so I didn't appear in front of you. "" No, not ...
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"I didn't realize it's 12. 30pm. I've been busy with work. I still have a couple of things to finish up on before I can eat my lunch." "We'll just head down to the cafe downstairs then. EunJung - nim says she has an email to send before she can join us and SeungHee will be meeting us at the lobby shortly. Join us when ...
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melt Hye's heart. She turned slowly first to look at JaeJoong. But something shocked her. "I don't know is it because of the bright sunlight …" Hye looked at the sun and then set her focus back on JaeJoong's face. She tip - toed slightly because it was even harder to tell where exactly JaeJoong is standing in front of ...
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but you didn't seemed to know who I was. I was pretty upset about it, being quiet most of the time. During that time, you had a lover. I was always watching you from far away. You seemed to know that I was watching you but you didn't bothered with me. You had times of happiness with your lover then. But there was one d...
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walk behind Hye and Hye had turned back several times to urge him to walk beside her but he ignored it and urged that she should just walk ahead. He liked walking behind her, staring at her back. That kind of feeling felt so familar. It has happened before. He liked how it is now. He liked the fact that Hye loves him a...
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JaeJoong stared up at Hye, looking at her face, into her eyes. He went to stand at the opposite side of the bed. Hye was moving herself away from her table and towards her side of the bed. JaeJoong noticed her eyes. Hye tried to set her focus. She sat down on her bed and tucked herself into the blanket. JaeJoong stood ...
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imagined. And of course, Kim JaeJoong wouldn't know that she would had reacted so. She wasn't able to see him in his original form anyways. "Hye … I'll tell you what you want to know. What I've come to realize. Let's go inside before we wake up mom and dad." Seo tucked Hye into her bed and settled down beside her while...
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found walking outside Hye's door. She approached the figure. The figure sensed her and tried running away. "Don't try to run!" Seo raised her voice slightly. "What are you? I know you've been here couple of days now. What do you want from Hye?" She spoke to the back of the figure. The figure refused to turn so Seo had ...
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"Remember, go straight to Grandma's house," her mother cautioned. "Don't dawdle along the way and please don't talk to strangers! The woods are dangerous." "Oh thank goodness dear! Come in, come in! I was worried sick that something had happened to you in the forest," said Grandma thinking that the knock was her grandd...
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turned, he marched slower and slower. Then he jerked to a stop. The Godfather looked under the tree. He picked up his present for Marie and gave it to her. It was a nutcracker shaped like a little man. Marie knew at once that the nutcracker was special. His legs were too short. His head was too big. He wore a fine purp...
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up, paid his bill with a golden feather, and left with inn with the goose under his arm. The sisters had no choice but to follow on behind him. A pretty procession they made. Further up the road they met a Police Sergeant. The Bishop called out to him "Sergeant: Help me get free from this young woman's shoulder. I'm st...
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to bed, the doors were shut and locked up. However, every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night. Nobody could find out how it happened, or where the princesses had been. A king's son soon came. He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber...
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and mother. "When the padre heard this, he went back to his poor old father and mother whom he had neglected till then. He brought them to where he lived and treated them with utmost kindness, love and respect. He lavished on them every care and did not let anyone else do even the least bit for them. When he saw the jo...
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to Ali, she puts a blob of wax in the scales to find out what Ali is using them for, as she is curious to know what kind of grain her impoverished brother - in - law needs to measure. To her shock, she finds a gold coin sticking to the scales and tells her husband, Ali Baba's rich and greedy brother, Cassim. Under pres...
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office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character. "These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!" thought the Emperor. "Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish! This stuff must be woven for me immedi...
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them. "See!" cried they, at last. "The Emperor's new clothes are ready!" And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, "Here are your Majesty's trousers! Here is the scarf! Here is the mantle! The whole s...
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because she was ill. She died last week. But before I could hang up she said, "Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Anil?" HERE were once five - and - twenty tin soldiers, who were all brothers, for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon. They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a sp...
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. Suddenly the boat shot under a bridge which formed a part of a drain, and then it was as dark as the tin soldier's box. "Where am I going now?" thought he. "This is the black goblin's fault, I am sure. Ah, well, if the little lady were only here with me in the boat, I should not care for any darkness." "Have you a pa...
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a bud. "It is a beautiful flower," said the woman, and she kissed the red and golden - colored leaves, and while she did so the flower opened, and she could see that it was a real tulip. Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden. She was scarcely half as long as a ...
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hunger. But the cockchafer did not trouble himself at all about the matter. He seated himself by her side on a large green leaf, gave her some honey from the flowers to eat, and told her she was very pretty, though not in the least like a cockchafer. After a time, all the cockchafers turned up their feelers, and said, ...
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wings pulled close to his sides, his feet and his head drawn up under his feathers; the poor bird had evidently died of the cold. It made little Tiny very sad to see it, she did so love the little birds; all the summer they had sung and twittered for her so beautifully. But the mole pushed it aside with his crooked leg...
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be over. Then he would keep his wedding - day with Tiny; but now the heat of the sun was so great that it burned the earth, and made it quite hard, like a stone. As soon, as the summer was over, the wedding should take place. But Tiny was not at all pleased; for she did not like the tiresome mole. Every morning when th...
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, farewell, "said the swallow, with a heavy heart as he left the warm countries to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang," Tweet, tweet, "and from his song came the whole story. Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by...
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tone, "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan. Quick, now!" She managed to swallow a morsel of the left - hand bit. The next minute she had grown so tall that her neck rose like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves, and these green leaves were the trees...
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what was said. "Well, friends," he said, "I only took a horse that was tied to a sledge, and I was arrested and accused of stealing. I said I had only taken it to get home quicker, and had then let it go; besides, the driver was a personal friend of mine. So I said, 'It's all right.' 'No,' said they, 'you stole it.' Bu...
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would it be to me? "Aksionov glanced at Makar Semyonich, and said," I cannot say, your honour. It is not God's will that I should tell! Do what you like with me; I am in your hands. "Aksionov was silent, and did not know what to say. Makar Semyonich slid off the bed - shelf and knelt upon the ground." Ivan Dmitritch, "...
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Leave a reply Tisha Porter didn't think she was going to make it. Convinced she would die from her injuries, she left a blow by blow account of what happened to her and who was responsible. The why of it was still a mystery. Thanks to Detective Harlan James, Tisha was on the mend, but she was ready to get out of her fa...
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known to those that work here, you're thinking. I mean, the staff here, they didn't have any issues with this person being in and out of here, so they could have pretty much done this without anyone having any clue. "Richard nodded." This is some sick shit, you know that, right? In another few hours, there would have b...
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been him. "Was she in the building?" "No. We found her at her home. That's where we're thinking she was hurt. Someone broke in." Randall tried to think of why someone would harm his little girl. "She was beaten, and cut up pretty badly. The doctors here are doing all that they can to save her. You have a very smart and...
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wants with and not have to ask. Why last month, she took me to get an ice cream soda, and no one knew about it but just the two of us. "Randall wondered just how much this other little girl was teaching his daughter." I want to do this, Dad. You want me to be smart like you? And know the value of money? "" I do. And I'...
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A being clad in black had other ideas. Rembrandt was meant to help him fight his cause and to help right a wrong that his kind had brought to this world. He gifted the reluctant Rembrandt with a taste for blood and immortality … and more … so much more. Rembrandt had had enough. He was over this life 1800 years ago and...
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of the fae is like an intoxicating drug to a vampire, turning the vampire feral. Rick knows immediately that the beautiful woman is fae, but that's not the problem, there are other fae at Rembrandt's compound and Rick has no problems being around them. But this one … there is something different about her …. The motor ...
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printed. She would have to find a place to rest soon, a campground that would take her big rig, and settle in for a few days. She might even go and see some of the sights while she was here, she thought, and got into the camper with her small paper. Starting the engine, she let her broken heart mend a little as she mad...
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so sorry. "" Don't be. If things keep going like this, I might just start living out there in it. It's a nice sucker. Have you worked out how the extensions come out yet? I swear to you, things get more and more complicated than they need to be. "She'd forgotten to extend the sides again. Not that it mattered … she had...
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what to do about it. "" What do you mean? Benton? He's coming? "Nate shook his head and pulled his shirt over his head and turned. The tat was moving, and Remy was nearly sick with it. When it settled, he didn't see much until Skylar pointed out that there were twelve now, not eleven on his back." Your mate is coming? ...
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His mouth was doing incredible things to her and she wanted more. Mate? Youre my mate. Do you know what that means? Her body seemed to come alive at his words. She struggled to pull from him and he let her go, but he didn't back off. She moved back from him as far as the wall and tried to get her mind to function again...
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That's the way it is with mates. But when a corrupt attorney has other ideas, the Emersons have to regroup to protect what they now consider their own …. Dawn Whitfield is on the run, and if her uncle catches her this time she knows he won't just beat her … he'll kill her. Her best bet is to keep moving, and at all cos...
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you see her go? I'd like to speak to her. "William laughed and pointed to the large open doors at the back of the large room." Excuse me. "If William answered him, he didn't hear him. Ramsey wasn't going to ruin her sisters' day by complaining about something that was none of her business. But as soon as he stepped out...
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Her laugh hurt him. "Ramsey, I'm so sorry. I wish I could tell you that I do remember all of this, but I don't want to lie to you. I feel like this is all my fault. Don't leave. Please. I'd like for you to move back home and for us to get to know one another. It's not too late, is it?" "You mean because Deidra is gone ...
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like everyone thought. She'd said that "Why are you doing this? I thought we cleared things up last night." She was still standing on her stoop when he came back for the other piece of luggage. "Dad? What are you really doing here?" "How about if we have dinner before you go? I know you have time. We can even eat in th...
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had ordered a beautiful porterhouse with the same potato with butter and sour cream. No salads for either of them. When he looked at the last picture in the box, she felt herself getting uncomfortable. He stared at the last one for so long that she wanted to ask him what was wrong with it. Her dad looked at her with te...
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I worked with a woman and her son. The son got into some serious trouble with the law. I could see that she was distressed so I spoke to her when I had a chance to some privacy with her. She told me that she was so ashamed. The first thing I told her was that she had nothing to be ashamed about. She had done nothing wr...
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I like the way it looks when it is presented attractively. I like the way it smells. I like the textures and tastes as I enjoy chewing and swallowing. I like the cozy feeling I get when I have finished eating. There are few foods that I do not like. Liver is the first I think of. I like the taste but the texture is gri...
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so low. In a big party of people (sometimes there would be twenty or thirty in one party) a lot of them thought that everyone else was tipping so it was not necessary for them. We made less money on that night than any other night of the year. One thing I do not like about New Year's Eve is that some people think it gi...
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to the cemetery are the order of the day. Graves are cleaned and headstones washed. Flowers are planted. Flags are placed. At one cemetery we are fortunate to have a man playing bagpipes who wanders through the cemetery playing appropriate music. I had a friend on the city council of our city. She told me she had ticke...
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his choice and he was usually a "sleepy" drinker. By that I mean he would drink then get sleepy and go to bed. But if he drank vodka which was the only hard liquor he drank he would want to fight. I cannot tell how many times he would call me to come get him. "They're picking on me," he would say. I would get to the ba...
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in the truck with the bad clutch. His father got in the tow truck and began to pull. My son got his truck started. It was not easy but he did it. The tow truck popped up in the air then came back down. My husband was driving his truck. As he was going through an intersection in the city, a motorcycle ran the red light....
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taking dance classes (Yes my daughter. She still would not dance with me) some of us mothers would go out for a while after our children were taken home. Usually it was to somewhere that there was dancing. We were in a bar one night. There was a great big bear of a man who was celebrating. His wife had just given birth...
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room for the stove, refrigerator, and a small table. Being a modern family of the 60's we usually ate in front of the television in the living room. Of course there was the kitchen sink. It was where my sister and I were expected to do the dishes every day. I hate washing dishes every bit as much as I hate outdoor toil...
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head to the insides of my shoes. After clucking fo a while about how wet I was the nurses just put me to work answering phones. I did some volunteer work at the local museum. It was in a small house and everything was piled on top of other things and dusty. We were trying to organize and catalog the historical items. T...
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There were seven of us. Somehow we were grouped into the boys, who were my oldest two brothers; the girls, my sister four years younger and me; the kids, my youngest sister and my youngest brother; and my brother. It was not because we loved him less or anything like that. It was just that he sort of got caught in a pl...
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We are not opening Christmas gifts until New Years and we are gathered as a family. Before Christmas packages arrived for me. The packages looked like flowers. The first one was not flowers, but a box of chocolates. The second one was the above vase and flowers from Dr John. Both the chocolates and the flowers were fro...
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Christmas preparations: Done some shopping and some wrapping. I decorated the new mantle. I found the stocking holders but not the stockings. Our stockings were knitted by John's aunt Bessie. She gave them to us the first year of our marriage. After the birth of each child she gave them a stocking. Bessie has past away...
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Challenge will be: Horny as a toad, Frankenstein's sister, Greeks bearing gifts, Holiday, Cheese grater, Gridlock, Drip dry, Coffin maker, movie mogul, Turkish coffeeMini Challenge: prenuptial agreement, The purple cow just hated the orange cat, potato chips, sari, Hammer and nailsSearch For A New Home - Ten Word Chall...
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. "The Captain said in a stern voice." What do you think you will gain by this trickery? "The bombardment stopped." We all left your quarters and no decision was made. "" You thought that this trickery would show you as a responsible person? "The Captain was trying to contain his anger. How could an highly intelligent ...
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simple method of just writing the words on the poster board. She has them all ready for next week. She learned a great deal about the Cricut's use. We got our first significant snow fall today. Today I face another Raven's Challenge. Ten words: pipe organ, ravages of time, lottery tickets, angelic music, five x five, b...
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. Eric was hungry but he guessed he would have to eat the rations he took with him from the space ship. Both he and his father reached for their back pack at the same time. To get to the food rations the canned air had to be removed. Mark did not notice the eating pair as he continued on his search of the room. He did ...
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. Veronica then moved on to the next cluster of art objects, but wondered if that picture would be something she would want in her house. It would be a talking piece. Five word paragraphSandy Shore could not find the glamour that was supposed to be in going to the beach. That penguin with the cinnamon floppy hat sat in...
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for Mark who was not human. This fact was not know by Dr. Peterson, and Mark had been his assistant for the last year. Mark was a Zonic and one of their abilities was shape - shifting. Back on the ship, Dr Peterson contacted the ships counselor Sandy Fitz. An attractive young officer, the doctor imagined she had little...
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that came into my mind was that someone was shooting someone in the house next door and I was ready for the questioning. I looked around the house next door as I was walking over to my daughters. Every thing seemed normal. The shots came again. My daughter had left for work and I picked up Maggie and our walk began. We...
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Maggie back over to my house through the back yard. As we were about to enter the door Maggie turned and jumped and landed next to the fence. It looked like she found something on the other side as she was squatting down. I went to see. She had a bird in her mouth. I said leave it. She put it down and I took hold of he...
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Overtime wore on late that day, and by the time Douno left the office, it was past nine at night. An accident had happened along the route home, closing off an entire lane and bringing traffic to a standstill. Douno did not get to his apartment until past ten. The asphalt in the parking lot still carried a damp smell f...
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's face was serious. "Your house has this warm feeling. I like how it smells inside, too. But every day when the time comes, I have to go home. Your house is somewhere I'm allowed to go over to play, but not stay at forever, right?" "What can I do to make my love disappear?" he asked quietly. "I'm starting to get tired...
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not a child, after all. Yet ― Time ticked away as precisely as ever no matter how many times Douno looked at the clock. Amidst his distracted mind and the resulting frequent interruptions to his work, Douno's ears caught the sound of rain. Great. Now it was raining, to top things off. It did not get worse than this. Ra...
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on such short notice today. "" Doesn't matter, "Kitagawa answered in his usual brusque manner." I bought some cake on the way home. Why don't we all sit down and have some? "" Kitagawa's going home now, "Douno answered before Kitagawa could." Really? "Mariko said, tilting her head and looking disappointed. Kitagawa gav...
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"she said, her voice trembling a little." After we ate lunch, I nodded off for a bit on the couch. I woke up past two, and Honoka was gone. She was watching a video right beside me. The front door was open, and... I thought at first Mr. Kitagawa had come by and taken Honoka out, but it's past five and I haven't heard a...
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firmly together in a line, and she was trembling. She looked like she would burst from the tension that seized her whole body. Douno had been so intent on searching for Honoka that he had neglected to think about how his wife would feel being left alone at home. "I don't think it's your fault that Honoka went missing. ...
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Hey there! Thanks for dropping by Just Call us "The Hecks"! Take a look around and grab the RSS feed to stay updated. See you around! We have some "interesting" neighbors that have moved in that have made us more vigilant when it comes to making sure things are locked up when we leave, etc. I hate feeling like this in ...
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ever again. We came out of the gardening area and started down an aisle where we both saw this really cool green glass looking ball. We both reached for it at the same time to feel it. After touching it we realized it was plastic and that is was a toy ball. My son quickly grabbed it and started reading the label. "Hey"...
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. Even now, 25 years later, I still laugh at the picture this paints in my mind. I envision Bambi when he first stepped on ice. Now thank goodness Google wasn't around to do a drive by "shooting". I would hate to find her on a Google map search somewhere. I could not stop laughing that entire day. I had graduated from ...
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it took a salesman for me to see a side of my father I did not know existed. When I was four years of age I remember being at home with my mom one day when a salesman tried breaking into our home. My mom was on the phone to her sister when the guy tried every door in the house. Her and I was curled up in a corner of th...
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used to work with that had cancer. After the sucker left, I called her and she told me she had no idea who this guy was and that he was lying. He had somewhere gotten medical information about people that he was fraudulently using. We thought we would not see the guy again after we told him we weren't interested. Nay, ...
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"various activities", all good and legal fun (at least it was legal back then). Toilet papering was our favorite thing to do. If you got toilet papered, you were the coolest people on the block. I remember my friend and I saving up tons of paper towel and toilet paper to get a boy's house that I had "liked". I remember...
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morning he put some antifreeze in it and took it for a spin to see if the problem was taken care of. He hit an unseen patch of ice and totaled her car. He is O. K., but the car was not. My husband was so broken hearted to have to tell his daughter what he had done to her car. Kids have this ability to be so resilient w...
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playing games as a family. Every Sunday night we have what we call Family Home Evening and we have a lesson on gospel topics and then we plays games and have treats. Everyone takes turns doing different things. Family Home Evening is not Family Home Evening with the games. We take turns picking a game and spend the nig...