Archive for the ‘Moving’ Category

4 weeks left

April 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Just four weeks left in my semester. That’s four weeks of classes with one book per week to be read and written about for one class and 10 books to be finished and written up for the other class.
Four weeks of the semester left before I must turn my attention to editing and revising [...]

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My first broken heart

March 5th, 2008 at 9:49 am

The Summer of 1979, I was five and a half years old. It was hot. I had just come in from outside where I had been playing with my imaginary friend, Charlie Brown*. We’d been swinging on my swing set, under the giant pecan tree, with a view of the brick backyard [...]

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The good, the bad and the ugly.

August 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm

The Good: I’m in love.
This just arrived yesterday.

Snoring Daddy lurks on Woot.com most every day and has been waiting for one of these to come up. It’s a refurbished model so we got it for $200 less than the retail price.
My five year old asked if he could sweep the floors [...]

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It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring–STILL

June 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am

The kids have been asking why God keeps making it rain. Try explaining climate patterns and the possible effects of global warming to your nearly six year old and four year old. Sorry, I can’t do the overly simplified “angels tears” explanation I received as a kid. I don’t know about anyone [...]

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Movin’ Movin’ Movin’, Keep them doggies movin’, Rawhide!

June 23rd, 2007 at 11:50 pm

I am dog-tired, ya’ll.
We still have some things at the old house. THANK GOD, the guy who bought it is cutting us some slack. It’s been a complicated process due to previous committments on Snoring Daddy’s part as well as all the rain and mud. There is very little left inside the [...]

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