Day 6 | Jan 6 | Mine

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These books are mine.   My copies of a book series i read a million times at my grandparents home.  They could take me away to many distant lands and teach me about different people and cultures.  i bought these on ebay a few years ago because i wanted to be able to see them and read them anytime i wanted, and now they also take me back to my grandparents hammock, or couch depending on the weather outside. there are very few better places to imagine yourself with a book in your hand.

 

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Day 5 | Jan 5 | Movement

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The ‘movement’ of time. From 2006 to  2011, where does the time go.
my daughter and nieces taken at La Jolla Cove when the girls were visiting us from 3000 miles away

 

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Day 4 | Jan 4 | The View From Here

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This is my view right now, work is done for the day and the weekend has started… so I relax on the couch with my computer and the dog.  Real name Peaches, known lovingly as Piggy due to her curly tail, chubbiness and frequent snorting sounds 🙂

also a laundry basket full of clean folded laundry that needs to be put away 🙂

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Day 3 | Jan 3 | Heart

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My ‘heart’ rate on the treadmill today.  I am really focused on getting healthier this year.

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Day 2 | Jan 2 | Something New

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My New Captain America Hoodie, because I might look like a woman in my 40s but really I am only about 10

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Day 1 | Jan 1 | Today

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‘Today’ I went back to they gym

 

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Happy New Year!

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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.  ~Mark Twain

2012 has been good to me and mine.

i got to see my far away family. even my farthest away sisters 🙂

nothing horrible happened to the house, no flood, no leaky roof.  first time we have made it all year without something bad.

we are all mostly healthy

here is to another great year

BRING ON 2013!!!!

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Christmas is over…

Well, Christmas is over, although i am still enjoying some vacation days.  Christmas to me is all about being with family and the friends you consider family.  but of course the presents are nice too 🙂

This year as we unwrapped gifts on Christmas Eve, i got everything i wanted, including the warmest fuzziest slipper boots  I have ever owned, my feet think they have died and gone to heaven.  also a Captain America hoodie that my husband swears i am never allowed to wear if i go out in public with him. a great laptop case for my new baby laptop….

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My in-laws sent us the most delightful shipment of chocolate covered strawberries from Shari’s Berries, my single most favorite snack in the world.  Technically it was for the whole family so i have been forced to share.

The stocking of course had the main staples of a chocolate orange and some sweetarts.

Christmas day was spent with friends for dinner and some long overdue hanging out.  then back home to spend some time doing nothing specific 🙂

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas

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Merry Christmas

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The first year my daughters boyfriend joined us for Christmas we were sort of at a loss for gift ideas then while running around shopping we found a giant container of cheese balls. Deciding  this would make a great joke gift we grabbed it and then a gift card as a real gift. much to our surprise he was delighted with the oversized snack. This is the 3rd Christmas in a row now that a giant container of cheese balls has been under the tree and he honestly appears happy when he gets them. the picture  above reflects this years gift, the original was much bigger, purchased at Costco, but we thought a non joke gift should be a little more reasonably sized for one person 🙂

I hope all your holiday dreams come true, Merry Christmas.

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Book Review – The Defective Amish Detective Books 1 & 2

The Whoopie Pie AffairThe Defective Amish Detective – Volume 1 – The Whoopie Pie Affair by Mark Miller and Giovanni Gelati

Hawaiian shirted detective “G”, is a surprising leader in the search to recover the missing snacks.  You never know what he do or say next.

Intercourse Boondogle

The Defective Amish Detective – Volume 2 – The Intercourse Boondogle by Mark Miller and Giovanni Gelati

The Defective Detective and his Amish friends are back to break up a crime ring in the Pennsylvania town of Intercourse.  Can they find out whodunit in time?

Look for a surprise cameo by everyone’s favorite purple haired girl and her mom  🙂

these are short stories , approx. 30 pages, there are more volumes planned.

Publisher – Helping Hands Press

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