Pondering: I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. (Margaret Thatcher)
My 920 AM flight to San Francisco from Las Vegas has been grounded and won’t fly out until 1130 AM. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I am staying positive despite the delay but my patience is waning. To think [...]
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Yell the F-Word Here
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments
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Introspection
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. (Jane Austen)
One of our many stops today was St. Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland. My sister and I went inside the cathedral to have a look at the altar, the windows and the overall architecture. [...]
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Oh, Yeah!
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Spanish captain Iker Casillas and teammates celebrate after winning the UEFA EURO 2008 final between Germany and Spain at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria. (Image: © Daniel Dal Zennaro/epa/Corbis)
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Lost
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength. (Betty Friedan)
I am trying to get into the new Coldplay CD which I have been so excitied about for the past few weeks and it’s taking awhile. There are definitely songs that I instantly fell in love with - Lost [...]
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Off With Her Head!
June 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. (Paul Verlaine)
Showtime’s The Tudors Season 2 ended with a bang… I mean with a beheading. Poor little Anne Boleyn’s bad karma came full circle in tonight’s episode and her little head left her body while her father abandoned her and her husband [...]
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Precious
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: When people meet me I think they’re surprised to find out I’m not always angst-ridden. (Martin L. Gore)
This one just cracked me up. Isn’t this just adorable?
Truly a replica of Martin L. Gore’s looks circa Playing the Angel tour in 2006. This gal created this and posted more pics in [...]
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And Around We Go
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: “Take everything you like seriously, except yourself.” (Rudyard Kipling)
Listening to: And Your Bird Can Sing (The Beatles)
For the first time ever in my thirty four years of existence, I rode the ferris wheel. Pathetic, some would say. I’ve been on many rides but never the ferris wheel. I remember long time [...]
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Baby Deer
May 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I had a very good morning walk today. To think, I started late; typically, I walk at 7:30 a.m. and be back at home around 8:15 a.m. but today I left the house at 8:00 a.m. As soon as I left [...]
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Monkey Off My Back
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. (Lily Tomlin)
Today I finished this huge salary survey project I’ve had hovering above me for almost four months now. It’s a grueling project of research, making calls, revising work plans because no one was providing me with the information I needed, [...]
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If Jane Austen Were Alive
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Pondering: There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If Jane Austen were alive, the movie Becoming Jane would have surely killed her. This has got to be the worst period romance movie, to date. I give it a million yawns and constant gagging. It is a collage [...]
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