Graduation dinner and assorted stray thoughts

Poor Jeremy! It took all of yesterday to rectify my computer issues, but he made a disk that should shorten the process if it should ever happen again. Everything is up and running beautifully, even faster than before since, in selecting files to be backed up, we got rid of several we hadn’t used in [...]

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Computer woes

I was all set to post more about graduation day and our celebratory dinner last night when some strange things started popping up on my computer — some fake spyware thing added several files. I ran the virus scan and it dealt with several of them, but something is still wrong — my computer now [...]

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We have a graduate!

Celebratory dinner, cake, and ice cream yet to come. I’ll catch up with you all when I can!!!

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Quotes about books and reading

No Booking Through Thursday for me this week: the question was about graphic novels, about which I know next to nothing. But as I am used to doing a bookish post on Thursdays, I decided to share several quotes I’ve collected over the last few years about books and reading. “And indeed, what is better [...]

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Odds and ends

Did you see The Amazing Race last Sunday, when one teamed missed out on the finals because of a bathroom break? That so would have been me. My family is very patient with my need to stop! In fairness, this girl had chugged down 4 bottles of water to try and wash down fried scorpions [...]

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Famous Firsts

I was working on another serious post this morning…but it was just not coming together. I’m going to let it incubate and give my addled brain a rest from thinking and from a busy week and do this fun-looking meme I saw at Melli‘s, who saw it at Thom‘s. First Job: Besides baby-sitting for my [...]

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Oh Jesus I Have Promised

O Jesus, I have promised to serve Thee to the end; Be Thou forever near me, my Master and my Friend; I shall not fear the battle if Thou art by my side, Nor wander from the pathway if Thou wilt be my Guide. O let me feel Thee near me! The world is ever [...]

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Catching up with awards and tags

A very long time ago, Alice gave me this Sisterhood award. Alice, forgive me for taking so long to acknowledge it! She also gave me this Everyday Supplements Award even longer ago. This one has rules: Pass this award on to the blogs that are in your daily “must read” list. Name the blog/owners and [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

My Poetry Friday post is below. Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details, and you can visit Susanne to see the list of others’ favorites. 1. Our church’s [...]

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Poetry Friday: Ode to Hay Fever

Poetry Friday is hosted at Allegro today. I have an original composition today. It was intended to be a tongue-in-cheek commiseration for those of us who suffer with allergies this time of year, but it ended up sounding a little depressing…maybe because the tune is depressing. But if you can imagine how someone like Carol [...]

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