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C'est la vie I reached into the refrigerator and grabbed the salsa for my quesadilla, and gave the jug (we go through so much salsa, I buy it in half-gallon jugs) a good shake. To my dismay, the lid was not on tightly…
- 4/29/2004 11:08:43 PM
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Pleats (Note: If you don't sew, you may want to skip this blog.) I have been working on the overskirt for my ren costume, and am very pleased with myself. The other skirts I have made have all had drawstring waistlin…
- 4/28/2004 2:26:39 PM
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Nightmare I generally do not have nightmares. I used to, the way many people who dream have them, with cliffs to fall from and airports to be naked in, and monsters and trapdoors and all the usual accoutrements. I us…
- 4/26/2004 10:06:29 PM
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Crime and punishment Yesterday my husband came home in a bad mood - our trailer was leaking water, and he wanted it ready for a trip in two weeks, and was unhappy because it doesn't seem possible to repair it in time. …
- 4/25/2004 2:36:59 PM
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That's why I eat worms halie wrote, "As far as you telling these stories, I don't know how you do it without everyone hating you. How can you be totally honest about your feelings when the people you're talking about…
- 4/23/2004 1:22:07 PM
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Disreputable I'm now pretty happy that I'm not going to be part of the ren faire cast. At first, I was depressed, but now that I've had a few weekends with my family that I would normally have spent at rehearsals, I'm …
- 4/22/2004 2:10:42 PM
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Spring There are some things I just love about spring: Feeling grass between my toes Flowers blooming, especially on trees Driving with the car windows down Flying kites Chatting with the other mothers at the pla…
- 4/20/2004 1:19:07 PM
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Did you say what I thought you just said? Some of you may recall that last week, my husband and my sister had words over feeding a corgi leftover meatloaf. A week later, I finally have enough information to see what r…
- 4/19/2004 11:30:06 AM
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Prayer, part 2 (who knew?) I would like to clarify my position in my previous post. I do not think it is bad to pray for good things, especially if they are for other people. I sure God takes prayers into account wh…
- 4/18/2004 10:19:47 PM
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The power of prayer? I am always irritated when people say "God answered my prayers!". It isn't that I don't believe in God or prayer or that God doesn't answer prayers, because I do believe that he does, but that I t…
- 4/15/2004 9:46:29 PM
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Deviled egg season Every year, after hard-boiling and coloring all the eggs, there comes the responsibility to eat them. Usually this involves deviled eggs, which seems ironic, since the eggs were colored for Easter. …
- 4/13/2004 10:22:00 PM
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Family time My sister was visiting me for a week, so I really didn't feel I had time to apply myself to the weblog. Now that she is back home, I have a lot of feelings about the trip. I'm not ready to purge about eve…
- 4/12/2004 12:05:43 PM
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The Ten Commandments (my favorite movie) First, let me say that Ben does not care much about television or videos. Where his older siblings were content to watch Aladdin or The Lion King 70 or 60 times, I don't know i…
- 4/5/2004 12:30:42 AM
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Cleaning out the chametz My daughter is off this week with friends in Virginia Beach, and my sister is coming to visit this week, so I told Sophie to make sure her room was clean before she left yesterday morning, with …
- 4/4/2004 4:01:15 PM
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Nile River cake (not a recipe) My littlest is studying ancient Egypt, and today they had a party of sorts in school. The made Pharoah crowns, wrapped each other like mummies (in toilet paper), and made Nile River cake…
- 4/2/2004 12:22:47 AM
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Juliet_A

- Country: United States
- State: Virginia
- Metro: Prince Williams County
- Birthday: 10/18/1958
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 3/15/2001