Blog By Knight
2008 December

My blogging buddy, Nina Rubin, has been posting a Menorah du Jour on her site, Voted off the Island. I have enjoyed following them over the past week. But if you are trying to have a stress free holiday season don’t watch the video she slipped in and

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The other day, I was jonesing for a book to read and broke one of my New Years resolutions from several years ago. I went to Borders to get a book rather than getting it from the library. When I first walked in, I saw a book by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man and bought it just because it was written by one of my favorite authors, the writer of Eat, Pray, Love. It turned out to be a very good character study of a first born son of a very harsh father with a mother who

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I was in Anthropologie the day after Christmas, which by the way was a stupid thing to do. I found a few things on sale and then went to get in the line and YIKES!, the line wound around and practically went out of the door . I set my few little items down and on the way out admired the decorations they had in the window. I realized that I too could have something as wonderful as that, next year, at my house if I went about it wisely.

So this morning Duane (by the way, he is a Saint)

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Mobile Blogging from here.

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

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I was going to write about this last year. But I decided that I would be a grown up and let it be. But then damn if we didn’t have the same problems come up all over again this year. Every thanksgiving and Christmas I think we have got the blended family holiday thing handled [...]

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What I want to know is why is my dog shedding like crazy the week before Christmas? Is this a side effect of global warming? There are huge puff balls of hair floating around the house two hours after vacuuming. At least only one of the three Bassets is such a fur burger.

This afternoon in preparation for the holidays, I decided to get out the Furminator. I was wearing black fleece pants and a fleece vest and I have to say that was not the best furminating outfit. Like the picture portrays, I filled up an entire garbage bag with dog hair but I had been sitting on the ground so when I got up I was covered in hair. Not just a little hair but more like a heavy layer of fur all over my clothes. Duane had to vacuum me off before I could put my clothes in the washer. I have vacuumed the dog before but I have yet to put him in the washer.

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Do you need a last minute gift? These dish towels are beautiful and come in a set of three for 24.00. I happen to love this set that Judy Clements bought for her newly renovated kitchen but they also come in several other color ways.

I went to Anthropologie the other day but there were so many things I loved that I came down with a bad case of shoppers paralysis. You may find me there the day after Christmas.

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I got my first cell phone years ago through my ex-husband’s medical practice. Since the hospital he worked in was in Smyrna our phone numbers had 770 area code and we had a Verizon contract. Over the years, when different phones have come out from other companies, I have felt trapped by Verizon. But I [...]

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My mom makes the best vegetable soup. The secret ingredient that makes all the difference between good vegetable soup and a great one is the lowly cabbage. Last week when I first got sick, my sister Mary offered to make some for me but she never got around to it with all the Xmas shows [...]

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