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Fun, Gabby & Personal

Our driveway on “crack”!

Well our driveway finally bit it after a long and hard snowy winter.
With all the ice and snow melting it has virtually made all gravel driveways in this area a nightmare. Ours included.
Woke up late Wednesday to see that our trash cans had mysteriously moved from up by our garage all the way done to [...]

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The jig is up!

Fun, Gabby & Personal

The jig is up! Or rather the “gig” is up. My 3 week Census Bureau gig that is. Here’s how it went.
Received a call after taking the test last year. Answered questions was told, your hired. Cool! Now on this phone conversation I was told at least 20 hours a week for 8 weeks. Ok, [...]

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For the Gals, but Guys may want to read too!

Fun, Gabby & Personal

I just received a funny email from a dear lifelong friend of mine and thought I would share. These make for a great chuckle, hee hee!
WOMAN’S PERFECT BREAKFAST
She’s sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is [...]

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Memories of a special friend

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UPDATE: I am happy to announce Tiff won the photo contest with her pic of Toots, the elderly lady she cared for. Tiff will be sending a beautiful gift to Linda, Toots daughter, in memory of Toots. She stays in contact with the family and has even invited this wonderful family to her wedding. We [...]

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Back to work outside the home, temporarily!

Fun, Gabby & Personal

Well I thought I would share what my life as a Census Bureau Girl in training has been like.
Surprisingly, so far not too bad Our group started out as 10 but is now 9. Let me explain.
We have all walks of life in this little group. There are several younger than me and [...]

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Just a Chill Day!

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We all have them, a day to chill out and do much of nothing or at least nothing of much importance. So here is my secret message.
So what have I been doing? Well eating of course but I also finished a book on my iPAQ, man I love that thing. I watched a [...]

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Link Love for a Blogging friend.

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I wanted to give some blog love to a friend who returned to my blog to tell me how a recipe I posted turned out. I am happy to report her family enjoyed the recipe which can be found here: Quick Chicken Recipe.
But now I would also like everyone to pay Janae’s Jewels blog a [...]

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Forever the critter lover, I am!

"Tinker Lily"

Tinker, my Maltese, was going nuts in the living room barking up a storm. Finally dropped what I was doing to see what her problem was. She spotted a family of 5 deer munching down by the pond. They hung out for about 30 minutes and I was scrambling to find batteries that would work [...]

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Mammogram time – don’t be afraid, get it done!

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It’s that time of year again for me, a woman 40+. I am getting all my checkups including my yearly mammogram.
Now I have to admit for years I was afraid as hell because so many women had given me horror stories of it being painful and the pinching of the breast really hurting especially [...]

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