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1. BY Kim 11.14.09 AT 9:22 AM

   Mild retail therapy. I have worked from home for so long and purged my wardrobe until I only had 1 really nice fall/winter outfit to wear anywhere (but I had jeans for every day of the week). I gathered my coupons and a little money I had saved and now have 2 sweater sets, 2 pairs of pants, a new denim jacket, and a silk shirt, and two FABULOUS necklaces. I can pull quite a few outfits from what I had and what I got.

   Being able to shop just a little.

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2. BY Karen O 11.14.09 AT 9:25 AM

   – I’m on Facebook now, & have some WMB friends. Cool!

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3. BY KI 11.14.09 AT 9:38 AM

   I’m on facebook also, Karen. Are you the Karen with the kitty?

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4. BY Karen O 11.14.09 AT 9:58 AM

   KI – Yeah, that’s me! Wanna be friends?

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5. BY Mark Roth 11.14.09 AT 10:14 AM

   Got any rave suggestions for me?

   I also am an American second (though a Christian first).

   I also am on Facebook.

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6. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 10:24 AM

   The kid has been behaving much, much better. Good enough that after our Christmas Vacation I can start looking for a job.

   Most of my experience has been in Christian Media, not exactly a glutted field. I may have to go in an entirely new direction.

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7. BY KI 11.14.09 AT 10:26 AM

   I am warm and cozy today, although it is rainy and cold outside.

   I have more than enough to eat, although many in the world do not.

   I have my husband still alive and well, when many are widows today.

   I have my children and grandchildren all alive and relatively healthy. We don’t live very near each other, but are blessed with transportation and communication unheard of not that many years ago.

   I have a God who loves me and sent his Son to reconcile myself and ‘whosoever will’.

   I have a God who is always with me.

   I could go on and on.

   Sure, Karen.

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8. BY michelle 11.14.09 AT 10:46 AM

   I attended a Boy Scouts Eagle Court of Honor last night and will go to another one in a few hours; I’ve never had them back to back before–but these are two different troops.

   I love the Boy Scouts.

   I cried through the whole CofH last night–remembering my own three guys going through the program and how wonderfully squirrely boys can mature into responsible young men who know how to do things like start fires, cook, balance check books, and hike everywhere.

   I’m so sorry many people don’t understand what a fine program this is–and how many boys could benefit from the opportunity to be a boy scout.

   Dump run today. We are almost done supporting the American economy by ourselves; but some of the appliances– you remember, the expensive ones I spent hours researching and then purchased–are falling apart after less than two years.

   Make the above an unhappy face.

   Tylenol Severe Cold–the liquid. I gave our foreign exchange student one dose and she slept on the couch for 15 straight hours! She feels much better now.

   God’s in his heaven; all’s right with the world.

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9. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 10:52 AM

   I do not have a nice fall/winter outfit or own any jeans and I do not have to shop. Life does not get much better than that.

   I am not on Facebook.

   I have seven wonderful children and the social worker did not bring me the three more she was expecting to bring.

   One of my sons and one daughter in law will soon be deployed to separate foreign lands but they both know the Lord and He will use this time to help them become more like Him.

   I get to do children’s church each week with some little ones who have not learned how to sit quietly in church. We have fun.

   I get to do Bible club each week with twenty active busy children and my kids get to help and learn the value of service.

   God is working in my life to make me more like Him.

   The mice are back. I may take up accessories selling.

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10. BY Peter L 11.14.09 AT 10:56 AM

    Headache, vomiting, soft bowel movement. I think I may have a mild case of H1N1 (aka swine flu). Must have gotten it from Mumsee’s guinea pig pie.

    No fever, though.

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11. BY Karen O 11.14.09 AT 10:56 AM

    Mark – You need something to Rave about? Are you still breathing? Is the sun still in the sky (even if obscured by clouds)? Did Jesus die for you?

    That’s just a start.

    And I’ll lift up a prayer to God for the encouragement of your spirit.

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12. BY Cheryl D. 11.14.09 AT 11:03 AM

    Beautiful weather and beautiful leaves–a nice combination.

    Leaves on the grass that are my own responsibility.

    Good friends, loving family, and even a sweet dog that lets me sleep in but is ready for petting the moment I get up.

    A full work schedule.

    Finishing up some projects in that full work schedule, so that next week won’t be as insanely busy as the last two.

    Finally getting payment yesterday for some of the work, and depositing my first check since September (if you don’t count one little $200 deposit more than a month ago).

    My brother is really missing his wife, and his niece and family had a really bad week on their farm that will cost a huge amount of money and gave a lot of people two days of hard labor–adding to the stress of my brother’s loss of his wife and his daughter’s loss of her mother. They could still use prayer.

    Thank God that I’m in Nashville and not still in Chicago through this time of loss; I was close enough to really get to know my sister-in-law (and their kids) well these last six years and love and help during the sickness and death, and now the grieving.

    God’s in His heaven; all’s right with the world.

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13. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 11:25 AM

    Time to write.

    Writer’s block.

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14. BY donna j 11.14.09 AT 11:32 AM

    God’s faithfulness.

    The visual of Mumsee sitting by the fire (in a rare un-busy moment), knitting together little mouse hides into gloves and hats. Very Proverbs 31, I think.

    A beautiful, sunny, but crisp and cool day outside. I need to remember to buy a new filter for my heater today, it’s getting to be that time of year when I’ll need to maybe turn it on for a little while at least in the evenings. My house is from the ’20s and has very little insulation.

    Two co-workers insisted on taking me out for lunch yesterday for my belated birthday.

    Here’s just a generic, social observation gripe — how middle-aged men are always going after the really young gals. Didn’t bother me when I was a young gal, but it irritates me to no end now. Still, I understand the reasons behind it — women are often looking for security in relationships (which older men can better provide), while men often value the things young women can best provide. Boy, that sounds cynical of me, but too often true, no?

    Got to “sleep in” until 7:30 this morning — the first Saturday I haven’t had an early dog obedience class to get to since Aug. 1. Woo-hoo! Got my shower taken & all the animals fed, with the dogs now playing in the backyard and Annie shut in the spare room for her post-breakfast nap.

    Lots of work and general picking-up to do around this house today.

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15. BY donna j 11.14.09 AT 11:36 AM

    Cheryl, I will continue to pray for your brother, this must be a very hard time in its own way. And the coming holidays don’t make it easier.

    KBells, I’ve always found deadlines to be the best motivator. So often when I’m out interviewing someone, they’ll ask me when this will be in the paper. “Oh, tomorrow,” I say. They’re usually stunned.

    Kim, sounds like you’ll be lookin’ good this winter.

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16. BY Kim 11.14.09 AT 11:38 AM

    Well Mumsee, now I feel superficial…

    Mumsee, if people can sell shark teeth necklaces and rabbits feet for good luck, I wonder if there is a market for mouse teeth necklaces and mouse feet for luck. Surely they must serve some purpose or God wouldn’t have created them.

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17. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 11:39 AM

    DonnaJ, when I worked for the TV Network I could crank out 20 to 25 promo scripts in a day, but no one is paying for anything now.

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18. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 11:47 AM

    Kim,

    That was certainly not my intention. Just that God has created us all differently and that is as it should be. People like me need people like you around so we can remember that clothes matter. They do. And without shoppers, the stores would not provide things so I could tell my hubby when he is coming to town, what we need. Thank you for your service, dear sister.

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19. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 11:47 AM

    Kim, I was cleaning my house one day and decided that if I could come up with a use for pet hair I would be rich. Then one of my facebook friends came up with Pet wigs.

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20. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 11:48 AM

    You know for pets who don’t have time to do thier own hair.

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21. BY Kim 11.14.09 AT 11:50 AM

    This has been floating through my head all morning so I had to google it and share it with all of you…

    I wish you enough sun
    to keep your attitude bright.
    I wish you enough rain
    to appreciate the sun more.
    I wish you enough happiness
    to keep your spirit alive.
    I wish you enough pain
    so that the smallest joys in life
    appear much bigger.
    I wish you enough gain
    to satisfy your wanting.
    I wish you enough loss
    to appreciate all you possess.
    I wish you enough hellos
    to get you through the final goodbye.

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22. BY Kim 11.14.09 AT 11:53 AM

    So to everyone here, I wish you “enough”….

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23. BY Kim 11.14.09 AT 11:55 AM

    KBells, many years ago when I worked in a bank they kept it so cold I had to keep a sweater at my desk in the summer. The bank manager explained that the tellers were quite active and stay hot behind the teller line and I could always put on a sweater but there was a limit to what they could take off. At the time someone was trying to open a Topless Car Wash in a city near me, if it ever happens I was first to come up with the idea of Topless Tellers. Somehow it didn’t go over well.

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24. BY donna j 11.14.09 AT 12:09 PM

    Dangly earrings made out of mice teeth. That could work, Mumsee.

    Most of us wouldn’t mind being in jeans every day — but working with the public often does entail shopping, like it or not (and most of us can get to liking it when the mood is right and the extra money’s available )

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25. BY donna j 11.14.09 AT 12:12 PM

    KBells — so many journalists are now literally blogging for free, writers aren’t getting paid for their work in this age of the Internet.

    And when it comes to deadlines, that’s why I think I always feel stumped at writing something larger on my own time (like a book). If there’s no outside deadline I have to meet, it’s really quite hard for me to dive in and “just do it,” as the slogan goes.

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26. BY Cheryl D. 11.14.09 AT 1:19 PM

    Oh, I personally do better with internal deadlines. Tell me you want this book edited in five weeks and I’ll set my own deadline for four. If I happen to get sick or somehow miss my deadline (which really only happens if the author doesn’t respond to my questions fast enough), I still have an extra week. But more important, I don’t have the publisher breathing down my neck, and in fact I have a happy publisher when I turn it in, and I get paid faster. Plus, the publisher eventually learns I can be trusted with a deadline, so I don’t get “fake” deadlines, and then books with tight deadlines are given to me as the person who can meet them, so I get more work. (Although I will say that a 90,000-word book in two weeks is a little tighter than I particularly like! And when a critique of a 180-page dissertation got thrown into the same two-week period, my life turned a little too crazy. That was my life the last two weeks, but I met my deadlines!!)

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27. BY Karen O 11.14.09 AT 3:26 PM

    Cheryl – You’re a smart lady.

    I am always telling my daughters or my husband that it is best to do what needs to be done now rather than later, because one never knows what later will bring. Do they listen? Do they learn? No!

    There have been many, many times when they have put something off & then had unexpected things come up. One example – Emily putting off taxes or some other thing with a deadline until the last day & then realizing an important paper was missing.

    Or I end up having to do something hubby promised to do but put off & then had other things “come up” that had to be dealt with right away.

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28. BY Thomas1 11.14.09 AT 3:39 PM

    Pouring rain here, but warm – leftover Hurricane Ida.

    9 bazillion catalogs in the mail for Christmas – some of which contain unique and beautiful items, fairly priced.

    Cats.

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29. BY Jillanne 11.14.09 AT 5:57 PM

    I have been reading over the comments on different blogs here attempting to acquaint myself with the “residents” ;o) It has been enlightening, although I find myself confused at times.

    It is rain/snowing here today with an expected 2 inches this evening and an additional 7 inches tomorrow.

    Hoping there isn’t much snow tomorrow so I can get myself to Hospice to volunteer

    Safe and warm in the house with husband and daughter

    The cherry tree on the front lawn was teepeed overnight…husband was “honored” we were chosen by the rascals….my OCD self was very annoyed!

    Still haven’t figured out how you all do the happy and sad faces (

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30. BY Jillanne 11.14.09 AT 5:58 PM

    Ok…I don’t know how that happy face made it on my comment…I am confused ;o)

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31. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 6:10 PM

    Jillane,

    I hope I have not been adding to the confusion. Don’t mind about the mice. I have to keep them here to protect them from Donna’s toaster oven. Speaking of mice, put your little arrow thing that your mouse moves around on top of somebody else’s smiley face or frown or whatever and it shows you how. I am told.

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32. BY Cheryl D. 11.14.09 AT 6:30 PM

    Mumsee, the mice are there for their protection?! Tell the truth now. Tell about your having a rat terrier, and pigs, and a lot of favorite recipes that seem to include rodents . . . This sweet, innocent protector-of-mice image really doesn’t work. Really now.

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33. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 6:43 PM

    

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34. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 6:44 PM

    Oh Look! I made a wiggly one! (Thanks, Mark)

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35. BY Karen O 11.14.09 AT 7:12 PM

    I’m so proud of you, Mumsee!

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36. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 7:32 PM

    :0

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37. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 7:32 PM

    back to the drawing board…
    

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38. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 7:39 PM

    :roll

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39. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 7:40 PM

    

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40. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 7:40 PM

    Oh, it works.

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41. BY Jillanne 11.14.09 AT 7:45 PM

    
    
    

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42. BY Jillanne 11.14.09 AT 7:46 PM

    testing testing

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43. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 7:46 PM

    wow, what have we done?

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44. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 7:52 PM

    

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45. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 7:52 PM

    Cool.

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46. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 7:53 PM

    Any of you ever got the “Slow down” message while posting?

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47. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 8:17 PM

    KBells! Slow down!

    Like that? Nope.

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48. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 8:22 PM

    47. No, like an official one from the website.

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49. BY mumsee 11.14.09 AT 8:51 PM

    Oh

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50. BY Cheryl D. 11.14.09 AT 9:12 PM

    Are all the guys watching football while we’re in the kitchen? I did see Peter L. and Chas duck in to steal some food on WV . . .

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51. BY Cheryl D. 11.14.09 AT 9:16 PM

    I’m actually just guessing there’s a football game on, but the muffled yells and laughter in the blog’s background suggests something of the sort.

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52. BY kBells 11.14.09 AT 10:20 PM

    The Florida/South Carolina game is over. That’s probably where they were.

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53. BY donna j 11.14.09 AT 10:53 PM

    Got some housework done, then spent the afternoon with my pal from down the street just aimlessly wandering. We drove through a couple of the beach towns to the south, went by the big dog beach (no dogs with us though), then had lunch and stopped in at Border’s.

    Beautiful day out, sunny but cool enough for a sweater and, at times, a light jacket as well.

    Annie seems subdued and looks like she’d thrown up a couple times yesterday — should I be worried, cat people? She also didn’t eat much today and slept a lot from what I can tell.

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54. BY Rio 11.14.09 AT 11:08 PM

    Did a 10K run in 57:31 yesterday, which was a much better time than my time for the race last year.

    My dad said he’d give me something I’d like (specifically, a Zune HD media portable media player) if I got a time of 52:30 or better, and I didn’t.

    Hopefully next year I’ll get a time in the low 50’s, if only to be faster (even if I already have the Zune by then).

    Cars like the BMW M3 and others (I don’t have one, though)

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55. BY Kim 11.15.09 AT 9:02 AM

    Annie may have an absess. Some people call them “wooves”. She will run fever and not feel well for a couple of days then it will explode and she will be fine. Just keep the dogs from licking her. This is what I went through with Callie and Amos a while back. The fever could have made her sick or she could have had a hairball. A little vaseline on her nose will help her pass the hairball rather than yakking.

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56. BY donna j 11.15.09 AT 11:31 AM

    Thanks Kim — she does seem better this morning, she was hungry and eager to eat (haven’t checked to see how much of her food she ate yet). She also was playing later last night.

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57. BY Karen O 11.15.09 AT 1:59 PM

    Donna – Yeah, sometimes they just don’t feel well for a day or two, then bounce back. Kinda like us sometimes. This happened to Peanut not too long ago & had me worried until she started acting “herself” again.

    Too bad they can’t tell us what hurts.

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58. BY donna j 11.15.09 AT 5:10 PM

    Thanks Karen — she’s still not eating much, but … seems to act “ok.” It’s just that a few days ago she was jetting around here, tearing through the house like crazy.

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59. BY kBells 11.15.09 AT 5:21 PM

    I’ve discovered that I can control my dog with cheese puffs.

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60. BY donna j 11.15.09 AT 5:26 PM

    Dogs are so easy compared to cats in some ways. I’m having trouble communicating with Border Kitty. We are simply not connecting sometimes.

    The other day as I was getting ready to brush my teeth, up she jumps in front of me, springing from the floor & landing smack in the middle of the bathroom sink where she began lapping at the running water from the faucet.

    “Oh, well, excuse me,” I said. “I’ll just stand here and wait until you’re finished before getting ready for work today.”

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61. BY Peter L 11.15.09 AT 6:30 PM

    Cheryl D #50: At the time you asked, I was watching “West Side Story with my daughter. The night games did not interest me.

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62. BY Chas 11.15.09 AT 6:45 PM

    KBells, I wouldn’t want this to get around, but I can be controlled with cheese puffs too.

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63. BY Karen O 11.15.09 AT 7:32 PM

    Donna – She’s training you well, I see. Good luck on your further training. Cats know we humans aren’t too bright, but they persevere to train us according to their wishes.

    Just ask Peanut, who trained me to feed her in the middle of the night. And Angel reaps the reward of me already being trained.

    (I have the food already in bowls to take out of the fridge when Peanut wakes me up. Yes, I know this is ridiculous, but I have to get up to go to the bathroom in the night anyway, so what the hay.)

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64. BY Cheryl D. 11.15.09 AT 8:05 PM

    Chas,

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65. BY contented-joy 11.15.09 AT 8:46 PM

    I figured we were going to be one of the few families in our church that escaped the swine flu, but today my son is showing symptoms. Vaccine will not be made available till the Health Dept gets it, and then it’s rumored to take up to a month to take effect… so anyway, hopefully it won’t spread to the rest of us. Especially my autistic son, whenever he gets a fever he stops eating and drinking completely. I hate having to take him to the hospital for IVs – and I think they feel the same way about it!

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66. BY Karen O 11.15.09 AT 8:53 PM

    May God touch your sick son & keep the rest of you healthy.

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67. BY Rio 11.15.09 AT 9:18 PM

    A young couple from church (married recently – since late August of this year) is now expecting their first child.

    Sales and nice things that there are good deals on, such as the recent “50% off outerwear” sale at Old Navy, where I was able to get a nice jacket.

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68. BY donna j 11.15.09 AT 10:51 PM

    Karen O, I suppose the cat is training me well. As I type this, she’s curled atop the highest platform of her cat “tree” — a lofty position from which she can keep watch over her domain. It must make her feel rather important, having a house with a person and two dogs under her rule.

    Contented, praying for your family, that the cases that do develop will be mild and the that it won’t affect more family members.

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69. BY TRS 11.16.09 AT 12:23 AM

    Well, Donna, if no one told you beforehand, cats used to be worshiped in Egypt, and they’ve never forgotten it!

    The little blasphemers are sure that they are the “god” of their universe.

    We love them anyway.

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70. BY tammie 11.16.09 AT 10:27 AM

    i’m happy to be back on and to enjoy all your comments. it’s good to see new people here too.

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71. BY mumsee 11.16.09 AT 10:35 AM

    And where have you been, Tammie?

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72. BY Chas 11.16.09 AT 11:26 AM

    Tammie, we’r happy to see you back, but as Mumsee insinuated, we’re somewhat suspicious too.
    ‘Fess up.

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73. BY contented-joy 11.16.09 AT 4:06 PM

    So far so good on the flu front, my son who has it isn’t any worse than yesterday, and the rest are all still healthy. 3 of them got out of dental appointments today so that was a bonus for them – but they’ll have to go in 2 weeks anyway

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