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Monday, December 7th, 2009
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11:33 pm - skiing vampires!
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On the twelfth day of Christmas,  divalicious sent to me... Twelve relationships swimming Eleven snowstorms writing Ten candles a-flying Nine artemis filmmaking Eight vampires a-skiing Seven books a-traveling Six mermaids a-mixing Five blu-u-u-ue eyes Four tori amos Three comic books Two lucid dreams ...and a marriage in a buffy. |
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| Monday, October 19th, 2009
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7:41 pm - Meme.
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HOW HONEST ARE YOU?
Can you fill this out HONESTLY? At the end, choose at least 8 OTHER people to be tagged. Don't forget to tag me!
To do this, copy this entire message, delete my answers, and type yours.
1. What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
goat cheese brie
2. Where was your profile picture taken?
On top of holy Mt Kurama in Japan
3. Can you play Guitar Hero?
Pretty well.
4. Name someone who made you laugh today?
Ethan
5. How late did you stay up last night and why?
One am. Fairly early night for me, but I got 6 hrs of sleep the night before and worked out both days, so I was tired.
6. If you could move somewhere else, would you?
It depends, really.
7. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
Yes
8. Which of your friends lives closest to you?
hmmm I think Becker does.
9. Do you believe exes can be friends?
Yeah but it takes a lot of work and it just doesn't feel the same as friendships do.
10. How do you feel about Dr Pepper?
Yum.
11. When was the last time you cried really hard?
A few weekends ago- overwhelmed by wedding budget stuff.
12. Who took your profile picture?
My brother Kyle
13. Who was the last person you took a picture of?
Someone at a paranormal investigation
14. Was yesterday better than today?
No
15. Can you live a day without TV?
No because it's part of my job
16. Are you upset about anything?
I'm a little upset that my cake lady didn't show up with samples like she said she would, but it's pretty minor.
17. Do you think relationships are ever really worth it?
yes
18. Are you a bad influence?
I can be
19. Night out or night in?
Both
20. What items could you not go without during the day?
iphone, chapstick, sparkly water
21. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
Becker
22. What does the last text message in your inbox say?
Get the bacon wrapped shrimp, it rocked
23. How do you feel about your life right now?
I'm pretty happy
24. Do you hate anyone?
No
25. If we were to look in your Facebook inbox, what would we find?
Messages and more messages, mostly to do with wedding stuff *G*
26. Say you were given a drug test right now, would you pass?
Yes
27. Has anyone ever called you perfect before?
No, I'm far from
28.What song is stuck in your head?
"I Hate This Part" Pussycat Dolls Dave Aude mix
29. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be?
Jeremy letting me know he found whichever cat went missing that night? lol
30.Wanna have grandkids before you're 50?
I don't know
31. Name something you have to do tomorrow?
Pick up my altered wedding dresses
32. Do you think too much or too little?
Too much
33. Do you smile a lot?
Yes... the Trader Joe's cashier commented that she liked my dimples
34. How many hours a day do you spend on the computer?
10+
35. If you could be anyone else for a day, who would you be?
Someone with more money.. we are so broke right now *G*
36. Facebook or Twitter?
Facebook. Loathe Twitter.
37. Chicken or Beef?
bok bok
38. Mac or PC?
PC
39. Have you ever punched anyone in the face?
no
40. Have you ever been punched in the face?
No
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| Monday, August 10th, 2009
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12:29 am - one of those small moments that etches deep
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I was in the kitchen, bending over to load some dishes into the dishwasher. J. was behind me making salad dressing, and we were clucking to Bodhi because he kept wanting to go in and out and in and out. "I think he wants YOU to go out with him" I was telling Jeremy who laughed and said no way, as it was 100 outside. "Bodhi, I'll go out and pull weeds with you later" I tell him.
Then I straightened up and looked at J.
"I love this." I say to him.
"The little domestic moments?"
"Yeah."
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| Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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4:57 pm - counter baths
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My cats used to have major sink fear, so over time I've gotten them over the fear by getting curious about the running tapwater. Lorenzo now loves to jump up there, and will stare at the tap until it turns on for him.
Now it means the cat will tolerate a sorta half bath... while cat is staring intrigued at the running tap water, I can wipe them down. Today I was able to shampoo both Rossi and Bodhi. Once they eventually realize they're getting wet, they tend to scrunch against my body, which puts them in a better position to wipe them down some more. I can stabilize them with a hand under their body, get away with a last dump of water with a bowl, and free them.
No upset meowing, no war wounds. And now Rossi is in my lap yelling at me to fluff his fur dry and spank him.
In other news, I found out that the black dots on Rossi's gums are normal for orange cats... like freckles on redheads!! I love my orangies... they're such comedians. And Bodhi will totally let Rossi sleep with him in the tower now.
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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3:03 am - brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgghh.
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Nothing new here. Parents reconciled again. The only part I can break of the "they break up, drama, they get back together, drama, they break up" cycle is the part where my Mom calls me at 3am to sob and threaten suicide. She's not allowed to discuss Dad or her marriage with me ever again. It's none of my business, and I don't want to hear about it ever again.
I got this lapis + hematite necklace/bracelet from China... turns out it's the predictable (but very beautiful, natch) knockoff of this US patent called a "magic necklace." (Because of the magnetic chips, you can wear it a variety of ways) Cynthia and Gary were over to help us with the pergola and I was all ready to show off my new magic necklace and what's she wearing? A turquoise magic necklace!!! Heeee!
Busy here with the girls, board games, going to Matt and Grace's wedding, blah blah blah.
The AC's been "broke" for almost 2 weeks at the office. Less said the better.
current mood:  blank
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| Thursday, May 21st, 2009
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2:11 pm - desertscape
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We've been trying to plan out the back yard a bit more... J. got some White Oleander for barriers, and we have an empty pot so we put some double knockout roses in them, and he planted some pretty vines next to the gazebo so they'll grow on it. I saw a hummingbird try to visit some lamp post lights hung on the gazebo and it broke my heart... the lil dude was trying to feed! And that's what hummingbird feeders tend to look like... so J. got a hummingbird feeder. It's funny that the hummingbird remembered what feeders look like. The bees are ignoring the knockouts and loving hardcore on a big yellow flowered weed. Oh well, I'm happy to feed the bees with our neglect.
My next project is the slope... I'd like to put in some local plants like sage bush. I love the smell of sage.
Goin' to Lake Mead this weekend... I hope my health is up for it.
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12:28 pm - Color Career Counselor
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From here, where your career is determined by your favorite color choices.
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| Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
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11:06 pm - Well, not dehydrated...
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I went into the urgent care clinic today and even though the place was deserted, I still felt silly for being there. Since my dad's a doctor, I have a major complex where it comes to illnesses and having to *prove* that I'm actually ill. (Dad had this rule where if you were sick, you had to make it to school unless you were like demonstrably vomiting blood or something... then if you were still feeling sick, you could come home. But you had to be up and walking around and STILL ill, vs. just tired from staying up too late) I felt fairly ok when I got up and let the drugstore errand be the deciding factor.. Yeah, still feeling heavy and weird. I figured I was basically just dragging on the rehydrating thing and thought that a round of IV fluids would top me off nicely.
I felt a lot less silly when they told me that my temperature was 100.8. Holy cats, Batman! I had no idea I was walking around with a fever. Since I've done so much immune system boosting with energy work, illness gets worn a bit differently.
So it's likely something viral / flu-ish? Cuz I told them I've also been having some odd little pinpoint pains over my body. It's like a sort of microflu. No respiratory symptoms, the usual aches and pains are pinpoints, I'm walking around with a fever. The vomiting / diarrhea / nausea / chills / fatigue earlier in the week. Oh well. The doctor had to take a CDC mandatory flu swab, and they sent a blood test off to the labs. And after that I went to work... honestly... I'm not feeling all that bad. I took a tylenol for the fever. They didn't believe based on my symptoms that I was dehydrated, other than the normal need to stay hydrated while ill. So, duh, while I was walking around thinking I was feeling faint because I was dehydrated, I was actually walking around with a fever.
No, I haven't been to Mexico recently. *G* Lab results on Monday.
Felt the quake the other day... trains go by our work so sometimes it's hard to tell, but this seemed quakey because it was slower and "knockier" feeling. I thought it was the train because it took a few gov map refreshes before I saw the quake on the map.
Thanks for the well wishes... I love you, my friends.
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3:02 am - well, rats
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Slow day... I was doing some normal chores and got way overheated and dizzy in the drugstore on the way to work. Met a friend for dinner and felt way weird and dizzy standing waiting for him, so I went inside the place to sit down and ask them for some water. I asked one of the Thai gals what's good to eat when you're not feeling well, so she had them make me an off-menu rice soup with fish that was really hearty and delicious. I was still feeling a little hot and achy and weak at work... i'm probably going to take greeneyes suggestion and head into the clinic tomorrow to get re-fluided, cuz I'm supposed to work tomorrow, and the thought makes me worry. Plus, traveling in a week.
current mood:  discontent
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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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3:01 am - Haha
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I notice that I posted "Which way to the vomitorium" last week...
Hmmm....
"WHICH WAY TO THE LOTTERY WINNERS CIRCLE....?
It's worth a shot!
Not minding the swine flu news much, wasted all my conspiracy theory panicking on the bird flu. The recession lapped up all the 'orts. Plus... VACATION IN TWO WEEKS!
current mood: amused
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| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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4:01 pm
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We've been working on solving the kitty problem... so far, so good.
We've made a few changes to try to solve this...
For one thing, we've reasoned that the cats are well, cats and won't be cajoled to come home. In the past, it was enough to do that... to call for them, and they'd come running. Or we'd compel them with wet food, with a food oriented cat like Bodhi was very successful. But the younger two weren't very treat oriented, so this wasn't working very well. So we've put them on a STRICT food schedule, where dry food is put away at night. Before, the dry food was always out for grazing (because I didn't want to be yelled at by kitties all morning) with 2 small treat feedings (approx ~3/4ths small can per cat per feeding).. a mid-day feeding to compel inside time before work, and a "yay we're home" feeding at 2am. So the boys could technically come in as early as 11am, graze feed on dry food, and be back outside and fresh for at least another 12 hrs (or at least til dusk when it got too exciting outside to remember eating). Now, I'll get home at 2am and they get a treat feeding, and the dry food gets put away. J. lets them out around 8am, and they're back in around 12pm-1pm ish, hungry. It's amazing, but simply putting away a bowl of dry food has made all the difference.
The other thing we did was that J. cut another cat door into the outside garage door, which we can set to "in only" so that they have a way of getting in if we do have to leave for work, without getting trapped outside as coyotebait for the next 9 hrs. This is also good because, if we left the garage open and the main cat door to "in only", Rossi-Houdini would wait for Lorenzo to come in, and use his entrance to make an exit. A second door cuts down on that possibility.
On that note, here's my newly invented...
Tell me about your pets meme!
1. List and describe your pets: personality, age, attributes, nicknames
2. If you have multiple pets, do you have a favorite?
3. Are you planning on getting any more pets?
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| Saturday, April 11th, 2009
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11:11 pm - Adventure Andrea Ahoy...
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This week's been an adventurous one...
Saturday, we went to see Monsters and Aliens in IMAX 3-D. Eh for my stereoscopic vision. What was much better was trying out the skydiving wind tunnel tube at Citywalk. Rawk!! Andrea is a timid princess, she does not go helter skelter jumping into 120 mph wind tunnels every day. For some people, that's easy... to challenge themselves and throw all caution to the wind. I never had the crazy dangerous gene, nor any wild years, so it's a tall order for me to face my fears and take on challenges. I think the reward is that much the sweeter for me.
The key to the skydiving tube is to a) relax and b) hold a stable and correct position. I had a hunch that I'd be a natural at it, astral flyer that I am, and I wasn't wrong. Leaning forward with a trust fall into the wind column isn't fun, but it's quickly overcome. I got a stable position pretty quickly and the instructor was able to let go and give a double thumbs to the camera for my money shot, then he took me up about halfway up the tube for a second shot. (On your first "flights" they only take you up if you're demonstrably stable, and he bounced me up twice, which was enormously fun) Immensely satisfying to see the instructors struggling and wrestling with 200+ lb guys ... in the tunnel it's not about strong you are. I knew I was doing well when I saw how bored the spectators looked because I wasn't flailing around.
Today the boys were out at La Grange practicing for their endurance race, so I got to tool around in the dirt on the Enduro for more larnin'. I have to say... I had stopped in Victorville for a rest stop and found myself in 99cent store / swap meet / check into cash / hell without a bathroom and it put me in a bad mood. I had a bad attitude and it showed in my riding... I had a frustrating practice where i was constantly stalling out and since I'm a few inches too short to be really effective at the kickstart, each stall out left me dead in the water til I could be rescued. I just wasn't feeling in tune with the bike at all.. every time I pulled in the clutch to shift and was giving it too much gas (J. forgot to tell me that moving shifts don't need gas the way a starting shift does) I would feel panic grabbing at me when the engine revved. What is it DOING!? I was having a hard time wrapping my head around a shifting mentality. (I don't drive stick shift, natch)
I took a long break to watch the boys practice on the track and brooded on it, feeling completely antisocial and dwelling on the mechanics.
On the way to La Grange, I was flipping through the stations and heard a few measures of a piece and like magic, it was "Yep, I've played that piece." Couldn't tell you what it WAS... that took a glance at the station info and a few more measures to go, "ah... okay.. symphonie fantastique.. Berlioz... idee fixe.. yah, yah..." I loved Interlochen but it could be searing brainwork for children-kind, thus it ensured that I would never forget a piece of music I've played.
That's the good part about the negative and the searing... the avoidant and the efficient brain patterns that result. I've noticed that in learning a piano piece for a judgment event, particularly the memorization, there's a day or two in there where you play WORSE than you did even sight reading the piece. You're frustrated, you're slamming piano lids, you're vowing never to touch the accursed thing again. You boil away, you sleep on it, then the next day you're up and playing it better than before if not perfectly, the bad session but a memory. My theory about this is that the brain wants to use the most efficient pathway and goes through a brief testing period where it tries alternate pathways to determine that they are indeed less efficient. Then it jumbles it all up, boils it down to the bare essentials, then voila!. The pattern's locked in.
After a rest and a good brood and acquiring some tips, I tried again and had a MUCH better session. I felt like things started to really mentally click together for me, and did a lot more riding, a lot more shifting and some less stalling. (It's a finicky old bike but at least that means I can dump it w/o worry) I'm pleased to have made some good progress! I actually got to have some FUN and I hope that it does get easier from here on out. Maybe next year I'll be ready for the endurance race, hee hee.
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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2:58 am - Google's AFD never disappoints.
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I am giggling at the "autopilot gmail." Cadie's page is hilarious, too.
What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on?
Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other for up to three messages each. Beyond that, our experiments have shown a significant decline in the quality ranking of Autopilot's responses and further messages may commit you to dinner parties or baby namings in which you have no interest.
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| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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4:07 am - Glurge
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Well, there just seems to be an incredible amount of CRAP flowing through people's lives right now.
~Peace be with you, my FL~
~Vibes~
*Hugs you all tight*
current mood: grateful
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| Monday, March 23rd, 2009
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2:54 pm - Lifeline ahoy!
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I've booked my trip in May to TMI for Lifeline, the seminar that I feel is pretty much a culmination of everything my life has led me towards. Yeah, it's that significant to me.
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Here's a neat article from the Fortean Times mag about TMI
Remote Viewing at the Monroe Institute
Since its perhaps surprising acceptance as a surveillance device within the intelligence community, Remote Viewing has gone through a transformation to become part of the New Age toolkit. Mark Blacklock visits one of RV’s elder statesmen in the USA.
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| Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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3:27 am - Head, wall.
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Even if intermittent results in the past has shown the rat that pressing the button gets pellets, THERE ARE NO MORE PELLETS.
Stop. Pressing the Button.
current mood:  aggravated
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| Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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4:20 am - More nonsense, then bed
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Parents' divorce will be finalized sometime in April.. but there's a date! Sounds like it'll be right around Chris's birthday. You poor slob.
The boys came over to learn how to ride, along with U.,, so I womynned up with U. and jumped on a bike for my first lesson. I can't say that it went especially well since I dumped the thing twice, but I had a blast. It's a good thing to learn how to use the rear brake, especially when you overhear someone saying "Don't brake with your front brake in the dirt... use the rear brake!" Turning is hard, and U. took a few dumps in the dirt too while trying to master that. But hey, we're in good company... friggin' Mary Sue BELLA dumped her bike while learning, too. *g*
Riding leathers will be a must. They also forgot to give me the gloves, so I scraped my palm open, and put a hole in my Lucky jeans, arghhh!! I only have two pairs of jeans!
Now to hobble bruised and scraped self off to bed.
current mood:  sore
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| Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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1:47 pm - things are looking a bit better
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Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I seem to be pulling out of the worst of the spiky doldrums.
I had joked with a guy in dubbing that his favors came with spikes and pain, and instead they should come with love and chocolate. So the next time I had to do a favor for him (syncing "Valkyrie Legacy" by hand... UGH!) he came over and dumped a bunch of chocolate on my desk. LOL.
The weekend was nice... I had J. pull out my digital piano so I could quiet my mind with some Mozart sonatas. I did some reading... Enochian magick, which is a very elegant and complicated system of angel invocation, I'm still wrapping my head around it. The occultist who wrote the book is contesting that the angels are up to any good from the human perspective... he theorizes that the ultimate goal of Enochian magick, the full unlocking of the Watchtowers brings on an Apocalypse. Which for them is a necessary period of change, but for us is hell on earth. So uh, great! As magickal systems go, it's a loaded gun. Fortunately, it's been so fragmented that nothing apocalyptic is bound to happen. At any rate, it's some great reading... touches on everything from Christian mysticism / Biblical history / quabbalah / Aleister Crowley / nephilim.
Sunday was Mike's annual super bowl party; I was looking fwd to it. J.'s a Steelers fan so it was an exciting game. (I've been informed that I must give up my Packers allegiance and marry into Steelers fanship) Then we stopped by D's new place in Calabasas.
This weekend is Vegas!!
current mood: calm
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| Sunday, January 25th, 2009
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4:01 am - What's on your reading list these days?
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I'm awfully light these days, so leisure is devoted to a lot of reading. I have "reading while rendering" books for work, iPhone gutenberg books, kindle books, home books...
My current reading list (as in books I'm currently in the process of reading, not books I WANT to be reading, that's a longer list LOL):
The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives (J. Reid Meloy) - Meloy's the wo/man in the stalking arena
a book of essays by David sedaris, can't remember the title (yeah, that's the bathroom reading)
Essential X-Men: Vol 1 (I blame you, Chris.)
Carmilla by Le Fanu: So that's where Mircalla comes from! Millarca, Carmilla, Mircalla!
Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Robert Kirk: Walker Between Worlds - a respectable priesty old timey guy who believed in fairies and tries to reconcile Christianity with the wee folk. Huh, whodathunk.
Finished the Jungle by Upton Sinclair, considered drastically cutting back on meat intake. Ugh.
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| Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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5:59 pm - This was my day.
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