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Light Post

~ I bought a bridesmaid dress, yesterday! My college friend and her boyfriend FINALLY are getting married. They've been together for a decade.Put a ring on it, already! They live by our Alma Mater. I...

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Full Moon

Okay, so it was MOSTLY full when I took the picture.  ~ It was nice again this evening, so I thought I'd go outside and take some more pictures. I wanted to practice on a camera my grandma sent me. I...

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This Is Where You Go and Stop.

There's an Amtrak station at the bottom of the bluff. It's not a train-station-type of building. In fact, the fact that the train sometimes stops there is incidental. The station is at a pizza joint....

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Post With No Words

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Specks of Light

I got a 50-in-1 card reader Wednesday evening so I could upload pictures from the camera my grandma sent me. I'm totally psyched that this camera has interchangeable lenses! I am planning to read up...

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Snowberries and Tebow Baseball

Snowberries! ~ I learned today that I'm pretty good at Wii Boxing. I'm okay at Wii Tennis. I suck at Wii Golf. I am not very interested in Wii Bowling. And I do okay with Wii Baseball - especially...

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Magic and Sorcerers: Inappropriate?

One of my ballet classes is choreographing a mini-ballet. It's about 6-7 minutes long. Since it tells a story, we're calling it a mini-ballet as opposed to "just another recital number."  The ballet is...

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Keeping Pace

Two of my coworkers' birthdays were today. One of them turned 46. He was feeling pretty down at work because no one at home acknowledged his birthday this morning, and the age hit him hard this year....

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The Panini

This Christmas, my mother gave me a Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, which I was very excited about.I have a little free time on my hands this week, so I thought I'd try an experiment. I want to...

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Cooking and Decorating

Today, I had two projects. The first was my new food of the day - Farmer's Casserole. It's a breakfast casserole with hashbrowns, egg, cheese, jalapenos, and sausage. Check it out: It was a success!...

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If I Was a Dictator...

THE PANINI WAS A SUCCESS THIS TIME!!! I had my Farmer's Casserole for breakfast, my Southwest Chicken Panini for lunch and another new dish for dinner. Boy, I was on a roll!Before I get to dinner,...

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Success!

My food project for today was a Poppy Seed Pound Cake with Orange Glaze. I wanted to make a Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake with Orange Glaze. This involved tweaking a recipe I hadn't even tried yet. I was...

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My First Pie

You know how I've been doing my food project all week? Well, on Thursday, I ran out of time because I was on the phone with Dish Network, AT&T, and Comcast for a looooooong time. I will be getting...

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Seven Not-So Secrets

1. I love nachos. Sprinkling cheese on tortilla chips and shoving it in the microwave is not nachos. That's a snack. Nachos are a conglomeration of Mexican foods mixed together and dumped on a plate to...

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Totally Nonchalant

I walked into my dance studio this evening to see Him sitting in the waiting room. Huh. I had briefly dated him in high school, though I hadn't been sure of it at the time until he broke up with me....

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Getting Dumber

Once upon a time there was a thought. Upon it's self-awareness, it found itself in a cavernous, echoing space. The thought was lonely, so in a case of amoeba-like binary fission, it split into two...

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Out of Curiosity

How would you feel if, as you were opening bills for the company, you found one for $14,000 for a PGA (Professional Golfer's Association) Tour and this is coming after most of production and the...

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Not Prickly But Still Dangerous

I accidentally killed a bamboo once. Apparently that's difficult to do. To its credit, that poor plant hung in there much longer than any other plant I've had the misfortune of killing. I'd love to...

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Missed Shots

Do you ever see a beautiful image and either don't have your camera or can't get it out fast enough? Or maybe you're driving or your stupid battery is dead or any number of other reasons. There are two...

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Musings - Where to Stick My Astronaut

I just read in a book that the reason why people and objects in outer space are able to float is NOT because of a lack of gravity. Rather, it is because they are in a constant state of free-fall.  My...

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