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  • absolutely love these few short weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. love the lights, the warm drinks, the music, the cold weather, the gifts. think am certifiable holiday junkie.

  • the holiday giving started out early and unfortunately in the Hedrick family as Ben passed along his flu bug to me (and, to a lesser degree, Mom and Bethany). but i am feeling much better today, ready to get back into…

  • i love the last day of school before a break: everything feels so festive. think will break out the Christmas music and cut out snowflakes to decorate the room.

  • for Chris, who is not familiar with the illustrious Fiennes brothers: Ralph (Rafe) Joseph

  • i have a splinter under my fingernail. it hurts. i tried to get it out with a needle, sed frustra ... Harry Potter was amazing, although since this book was incredibly long things feel very rushed and condensed. you do…

  • no more play practice! Glorious! but in more important news: the new Harry Potter movie is out today! planning to go see it tonight ... i'm so excited ...

  • The following recipe is far better than I thought it would be, even when made with regular coffee (rather than espresso) and without the whipped cream. Try it! Mock Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte 3 heaping T. canned pum…

  • thank goodness it's finally cold again. that's all i've got to say today.

  • for all the fuss and inconvenience they require, plays are still exciting. and then, when they're over, you appreciate all that extra time you suddenly have. and you have a new stock of quotable lines to be shared with f…

  • busy week this week. Grandparents' day program this morning, then lots to do for the play, rehearsal every night, plus all my regular teaching stuff. makes me tired just thinking about it. let's hope I don't lost my voic…

  • This movie makes me want to do one or all of the following (in order of likelihood):1). expand my ballroom dancing repertoire beyond just swing2). teach swing dancing to 5th graders3). teach in a school where multiple et…

  • Are there really only 2 weekends left until Thanksgiving? I need to clean my house ... and buy Thanksgiving dinner groceries ... and Christmas gifts for my brother ... and go on a McCarty run ... and let's not forget pla…

  • Though I am nothing if not fiercely loyal, I must say that Boston Legal has been a disappointment this season. Last night the only thing I enjoyed was the theme song.

  • Get ready to be amazed ... register your vote for who is prettier!

  • Most Random Survey Ever: OK, look at the veins on the inside of your wrists. Are they predominantly blue or green?(For those of you who must know what, if anything, this means, blue means you have "cool" coloring, and g…

  • Gotta love those Monday mornings where the only thing that gets you through the day is looking ahead to 3:15 when you can go home and crawl back into bed.

  • Thumbs Up For:1). basketball season arriving2). receiving non-abysmal ratings from 2 out of 3 choral festival judges3). rosemary focaccia4). Target clearance sales5). Yankee candles Thumbs Down For:1). obsessing over th…

  • Amelie, at long last, appears to be flea-free. now, if only this state of non-itchiness would manifest itself in an improvement of her temperament ...

  • if only i had unlimited funds for the purchase of Christmas gifts ... i do enjoy shopping for them so ...

  • am off to a teachers' inservice, the highlights of which will be:a). not having to deal with childrenb). proximity of inservice location to Starbucks (possibility of pumpkin spice latte)c). free afternoon for lazing…

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