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Old 07-21-2012, 06:50 PM   #1701
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Old 07-21-2012, 10:30 PM   #1702
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HJ I am pleased the funeral was a good experience.

Just back from a boot sale. I made some money and spent it on coffee and cake on the way home! So tired. Again. hmph.
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Old 07-22-2012, 12:36 AM   #1703
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WB, HJ. Shakes, my spirit cat had a fight with that lady's spirit dog once! Oh, how the spirit monkeys laughed. Morning, everyone else.



By choice. Not difficult at all--difficult is having a crazy neighbor with kids who scream in the street at 3 a.m. and whose dog poops on your lawn. Difficult is raking, mowing, and repainting/reroofing a whole house. This is fun.

And cold a few mornings, but there are blankets. On cool mornings, I bake a potato for breakfast, open the oven door when I'm done to take the chill off, and think about how cavewomen had it worse during the ice age.
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Old 07-22-2012, 12:55 AM   #1705
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everyone! The funeral is over. It was lovely.
I'm glad, though I wish your trip were for a better circumstance.

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I still don't understand how people are so naive about this sort of thing online. When one comes across something walking down the street, we may assume that thing has been lost, but we assume it has a rightful owner.

Why is it when people find stuff online, they just assume it's free?

When I take stuff online, I just assume I'm stealing it.
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Old 07-22-2012, 01:02 AM   #1706
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propane appliances. very modern.
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Old 07-22-2012, 01:06 AM   #1707
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Old 07-22-2012, 02:36 AM   #1708
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I still don't understand how people are so naive about this sort of thing online. When one comes across something walking down the street, we may assume that thing has been lost, but we assume it has a rightful owner.

Why is it when people find stuff online, they just assume it's free?
Because "everyone" is doing it. Or they never even give it a thought. I can understand it to an extent. To an extent.
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Old 07-22-2012, 03:52 AM   #1709
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This is my 1500th post. I thought I'd do it here because HJ is used to cleaning up messes Neptune is retrograde and in Pisces I feel like MTS is my home on the board.
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Old 07-22-2012, 04:33 AM   #1710
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Congrats, lorna! (Mercury is also in retrograde.)
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Old 07-22-2012, 06:45 AM   #1711
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Old 07-22-2012, 12:49 PM   #1712
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Old 07-22-2012, 01:49 PM   #1713
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Old 07-22-2012, 04:02 PM   #1714
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Old 07-22-2012, 04:08 PM   #1715
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Congrats on the 1500 lorna.

I used my 10K post to take Susie cake.

And a sleepy good morning, all. Took the kids to an amusement park last night. We saw some friends, had some laughs. All in all it was a good time and helped everyone ease through the grief.
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Old 07-26-2012, 09:48 AM   #1716
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Just thought I'd pop in and say hello. Been busy. Tough finding me time in the summer. When school starts I'll have my whole day Mon & Tuesday back for writing/editing. Right now I'm just squeezing it all in.

Busy too with a lot of court stuff in regards to my daughter and her babe -- and the deadbeat dad. Actually, I'm glad he hasn't been around-- at least til he grows up some.

Baby is almost 15 mo now. A real hoot. She has like dance moves, no kidding. She could so be a sitcom baby.
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Old 07-26-2012, 11:46 AM   #1717
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Old 07-26-2012, 03:29 PM   #1718
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History. Sorry you're still having trouble with Deadbeat. Are the rulings coming up in your daughter's favor?
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Busy too with a lot of court stuff in regards to my daughter and her babe -- and the deadbeat dad. Actually, I'm glad he hasn't been around-- at least til he grows up some.

Baby is almost 15 mo now. A real hoot. She has like dance moves, no kidding. She could so be a sitcom baby.

Deadbeat dad = twatwaffle*.

I hope the court stuff gets resolved soon - for all of you. It can be so stressful.





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Old 07-27-2012, 07:37 AM   #1721
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Thanks guys. My daughter went for support, then he filed for joint custody it was postponed cause he didn't have a lawyer. The next date he comes as far as the parking lot and never came in so they threw that out. Child support one is on the 9th. (Court wanted DNA done first.) That's where we are. But so far so good. He's come to everything without a lawyer. Don't think they'll let him slide again. He had every opportunity to get one through legal aid for free. Stupidness.

Other than that, still trying to get my edits done on the book in my siggy. Free time is tight in the summer. Really want to get it done and get back to the fun of fiction.
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Hiya!

Weekend again. I finished my second rewrite of my WIP last week, so now I'm taking a break. Which is good My goal is to finish it before the summer is over, so I have some time. Lovely feeling, that. Nice to let my brain get blank again before getting back to it.

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