Tag: funny
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Bookshelf Shopping: Take 1
Actual Conversation I just had with Furniture Store Employee: I went into a few furniture stores today to look at bookshelves. I’ve reached the point where I can no longer squeeze all of my books onto the shelves that survived the move– two broke, and I gave away enough books at the time to be…
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Sojourn
sojourn (n.) a brief period of residence; (v.) to live somewhere temporarily I spent November outside of Hawaii. I meant to blog about it as soon as I got back, but life can be a whirlwind (plus I’m still enjoying as much of my on-vacation-laid-back attitude as much as possible) and I haven’t gotten to…
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The Saga of the Giant Roach
Once upon a late night yon as I turned off all the lights my eyes happened to stumble on a thing which gave me a small fright. There upon my counter top I spied a monstrous insect, brown and black, antennae wave atop as it scurried all around. I froze for just an instant as…
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Cat Toy Fail
You know how kids would rather play with the box containing the new (insert thing here, such as wagon or basketball) than the new thing itself? I’d say it’s almost more true for cats. Expensive cat toys (except for climbing trees) are useless in our house. I’ve tried any number of toys, playforts, tunnels, and…
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The North Dakota Conspiracy
“The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings!” If you have ever been on a road trip with me, or otherwise confined with me for any length of…
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Priorities are everything
Priorities are everything… and it seems that (according to my bedside table, at least) I have very specific ones. This morning when I woke up (slept from 5 to 8), I found the following: 1 glass of water 1 bag of crackers 1 container of TUMs 1 Surefire flashlight (thanks, J!) 1 emergency lamp 3…
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My life in movies
You can learn a lot about a person from the movies on their shelf. For now let’s take a little trip into the movie shelf in my head. Films That Remind Me of Childhood: Back to the Future is still the first movie I can remember seeing in theaters. My “first movie” was Follow That…
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Me After Dentist
Today was my semi-annual sojourn to the dentists’ office, which is actually across the street and takes me about three minutes to reach. My predictions this morning? I will be told I need to floss more. The amount of finger shaking and encouraging me to floss more will not change from my last visit, even…
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Twelve Trivial Traits
I have been challenged to come up with a list of a dozen things that you may not know about me and post them here. This is difficult for me as half of my readers are probably related to me… but I’m going to try. So here you have twelve mostly useless things to know.…
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Accidental Debut
A funny thing happened to me the other morning. On Thursday evening a new-to-the-ship friend emailed me to ask if I wanted to join her for “something fun” on Friday morning. As she’s a professional photographer, I thought it must be something along those lines; maybe she needed me to help her carry equipment or…
Joanna Volavka 