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To celebrate my birthday (early, LOL) Jim, Jessie and I went to Bento for dinner. Had a great time, our cook had performed several tricks I hadn’t seen before, including “heartbeat” and “heartburn”; my favorite bit was when he was playing around with the eggs, after flipping, bouncing, and finally cracking each, he took each […]

My dad and brother both had their birthdays last week; Dad’s was the 27th, Jeremy’s the 29th. I called over to my folks’ house last Tuesday and asked to speak to Dad. The conversation lasted a whole 20 seconds and went pretty much like this: Me: Hey, Deddy, Happy Birthday. Dad: Thank you. Me: How […]

I was going through my favorite “stumbled” links, trying to find that nc waterfront property link I had posted about before to send to a friend of mine moving out that way and ran across this that I had tagged and totally forgotten about: WiiKitty.com: “Where kitties and Wii are at long last conjoined.” How […]

Twitterpated: 1. the happy jumpy feeling you get that causes you to smile uncontrollably. 2. the way birds and other animals act during mating season (as seen in Bambi) 1. Vianne gets twitterpated when Marcos touches her cheek. 2. “The birds gettin’ all twitterpated,” said the owl. (Disney’s Bambi really is a good movie.) I’m […]

Something that I both understand, but yet not understand: why do we women obsess over our weight? A relative recently told me that I was “looking too thin.” I was delighted hearing this and took it as a great compliment. I know I’m no skinny minnie, but am finally to a decent body shape, and […]

Kudzu: noun: a fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long many-seed hairy pods and tuberous starchy roots; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States. Anyone who’s lived for any period of time here in the South knows what […]