Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Just one more time before Nov 4 and it’s too late and a winner has been announced…
Thanks Anonz, here are the poll pointers again…
Since many of you will vote early I wanted to bring it up one more time before Election Day. So here is your heads up…things to heed while doing the voting deed [...]

Listen, my life has been just a titch complicated lately, but no worries, I always remember these two things: ‘this too shall pass’ and ‘that which doesn’t kill you will make you stronger’
: ) – I smile at the latter one bc well, there have been moments when I have said out loud [...]

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It’s pretty amusing to me when someone of another culture, a ballsy person of another culture, looks at me warily and says, ‘Are you American??’ This happened regularly in Singapore and it still happens here…not sure what’s up with that…
My internal ‘Lilly red alert’ sends out the [...]

In 1929 during the great depression there were record suicides. I commented (although I cannot remember whether it was here or on another blog or in a convo with someone live) that this year would be a record breaker for suicides also. When money goes away it’s like that magic act where they pull the [...]

Hi – uhm, I did plan to release a blog entry today called, ‘yes, I am American’ and it was about a few encounters Ive had in Singapore and here re: that fact. But, while I am not a perfectionist by any stretch I just couldn’t get it right, and I tried.
Then, I understood what [...]

‘This week’ magazine had a filler article about a San Diego man who opened a store where for $10-50 you can smash plates, glasses and picture frames against a wall. I laughed out loud, mostly bc I think he’s onto something there…you need to vent but most people don’t know how and they often act [...]

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Hey, you know – I was going to let this whole voter fraud thing hang until Monday bc I like the weekends to be easy and relaxing and somewhat Zenish for you, BUT, it is too close to election day to let it wait…
Smokin’ man says:
‘…Either party can preset the [...]

OK, please don’t ask for more info than the above title, can’t tell you or I’d have to kill you. Hmm, in turn he’d probably have to kill me. I’m not sure I’m ready to die just yet, so…read on…and please heed the ‘Smoking Man’ advice. Great and appropriate nickname – thank you for the [...]

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Carrot cake is my favorite dessert and since there was some left over from my birthday I decided I’d do one last dose of ‘processed sugar’ before tossing it yesterday afternoon, and what’s better than a little boob tube viewing to add to the being a bad [...]

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I’ll attempt to keep it brief today…(I think)

This is a tough subject to go ‘lite’ on but, ah, I’ll give it a go…

Happy Wednesday ; ) and in the spirit of this day and it is a beauty of a day here in So Cal I will jump right in to [...]