Happy Birthday to someone special :)  © November 2007, Long Beach, CA Today is my girl Kim‘s birthday. She isn’t too happy about turning 31 this year, so hop on over and tell her to have a fabulous day and not to worry about the number! I also want to...
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AÂ part of me wishes that I could vote in the primaries. Because it seems important. Because it seems like it really matters this time more than ever. But I am not a US citizen, even though I have lived and breathed this country for the greater part of the last...
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Seen at Kerri‘s blog: I want to: make a difference in people’s lives. do something meaningful. help people that are less fortunate than I am. carve out time for myself, daily. stand up for what I believe.… Read more
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Sometimes it really baffles me how in the world there are certain things you cannot buy in the US, the land of unlimited opportunity and possibility, without a tremendous amount of effort. I could talk about the non-existence of any kind of bread that would pass my nitpicking examination. [I...
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Seriously. The cleaning ladies in my office have quite some balls. I think I can quite surely assume that they’ve been the origin of chocolate disappearing from my office. My co-worker gave me a belated Christmas present when I returned to the office after New Year’s: a picture frame and...
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I assume most of you read or heard the news yesterday. Heath Ledger is dead. That somehow moved me deeply. I am not even a big fan of his, but I really ADORED his last movie “Brokeback Mountain” and when I, totally unexpectedly, learned of his death yesterday, I couln’t help but...
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This is what the consequences of a “monster storm” look like in CA. © sacbee.com Do you think that would have happened to a brick house? Fortunately, that wasn’t our house … but that was just a few houses down the street. Our weekend has been rough, to say the...
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