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HA! you guys are SO going to hell.


I'll see ya there.

January 01, 2006 1:24 AM

Blasphemy is best served family style!

January 01, 2006 1:46 AM

haha htat was funny...and yes you are going to hell for that!

January 01, 2006 1:22 PM

According to The DaVinci Code and assorted New Agers, Jesus elopped with Mary Magdelaine, settling down in the south of France to raise their family that is currently populated by huxsters and conmen.

The south of France was the original Promised Land to which Moses was headed. He got lost in the desert for forty years and, being a man, never stopped to ask directions.

See you in Hell!

January 01, 2006 3:13 PM

hahahahahahahahahahaha

January 01, 2006 10:54 PM

ESC, yeah we are. We scare other parents. But the kids seem to like us.

SSB, the family that blasphemes together, stays together... nothing rhymes with "blasphemes".

Randi, as long as SSB and I are going to hell together, that's fine with me.

Indigo Red, maybe I will have to go to France to see what all the hubbub is about.

OldRoses, teehee!

January 02, 2006 11:13 PM

9K...that's a good way to end the year. I missed my 5K hit, but it feels good to know folks are looking in now and then.

Happy New Year, Sylvana. Cheers for another 5K.

December 30, 2005 8:17 PM

Wow - you hit 8000 on December 1. That's 1000 a month!

How do you do it?

December 30, 2005 8:50 PM

Lot of hits. You must be writing something good. I always love it when you talk politics.

I love Pizza Hut. We even have it in Tasmania.

December 31, 2005 3:58 AM

Brilliant! Using your counter as a reason to eat pizza! Thanks for the tip!!!

December 31, 2005 6:27 AM

Indigo Red, it's so easy to miss the turnover. It's so nice to have so many different people hanging out with me everyday. You have a Happy New Year too!

Scott, I was hoping to have 10,000 by the end of this year, but I am certainly happy with what I have! Maybe it is the variety? The counter doesn't pick up my own visits so I know it's not me!!

Wendy A, ooo, requests!! Really? Politics? I always feel like I have rabies or something when I post about politics. And I imagine that people are backing away slowly clutching their loved ones when I post politics. You like my fervent mad rantings? Not too Howard Dean for you? Good to know!! :)

AG, I KNOW!! Mmmm, sweet, sweet rewards! Love it!

December 31, 2005 12:20 PM

9000. I'm so impressed. The totals for all three of my blogs together isn't 9000. You're good, really good.

January 01, 2006 10:53 PM

OldRose, awe, thanks! **blush**

January 02, 2006 10:39 PM

I'm also awful about buying.
I read online comments (like epinions.com) and ask friends and family for recommendations as well.
When I was younger, things were simpler, because of financial limitations... I could only buy what I could afford.
It took me 2 years to pick out our latest TV!

December 30, 2005 2:37 PM

I like to be a little late everywhere too. My hubby is an early bird. My fashionable lateness drives him crazy.

December 31, 2005 4:01 AM

You and I must never arrange to go out to eat together.
I must always be ten minutes early, and when at a restauarnt I don't like being held up, see.

Poor poor SSB! :)

December 31, 2005 6:26 AM

My wife does the #3 thing as well. I have a game where I guess how mnay times she will come back in after leaving the first time.

December 31, 2005 9:06 AM

Sierrabella, yeah it gets worse when you have more options. But I think in the end it is worth it because you know that you got the best you could for yourself. EXCEPT- another habit of mine, sort of mentioned in #5 is that after I feel really confident and finally make a big decision, I often totally freak out in panic so sure that I have made some horrible mistake. The panic usually involves tears. This has got to be the most annoying habit for SSB.

Wendy A, I am late for several reasons. One is that I don't like to waste the time standing around once you have gotten to some place early. Another is that I can rarely get out of the house on the first shot. Also I am way too optimistic about how long it will take me to do something.

AG, SSB and I have found ways to cope with our differences. If I can get the menu while we are waiting to be seated, I can usually figure out what I will have before we even get a table. Or we go to a BUFFET! Yay! Buffets! If I bring something to do while we sit there early, I don't mind being early for things.

Shamus, so there are others. That is very reassuring. SSB plays the same game.

December 31, 2005 12:04 PM

The worst was after we bought the van...and then you said you thought you actually wanted the sedan instead...you are insane!

January 01, 2006 1:50 AM

WOW! How did you ever decide to get married? Or have a baby? Decisions like that are HUGE.

January 01, 2006 10:51 PM

I do #3 often, too. Usually it's major stuff; car keys, wallet, pants,etc.

January 02, 2006 2:09 PM

SSB, pfft! You should have known that a long time ago!

OldRoses, I didn't really decide those things, they just happened. Like if you won a brand new car. You don't decide, you just take the car.

TFG, Welcome to my blog! I often have to check to make sure I didn't leave the house without pants.

January 02, 2006 10:35 PM

I have to admit that my hubby does #4 to me constantly. He's a "fiddler."

"Come on, love," I'll yell up the stairs, "we're going to be late for
the movie."

"Just a sec." I'll hear. And then I realize that he hasn't actually stopped what he's doing. He's "fiddling". I imagine he picked this up from his father who will decided to clean out the gutters 4 minutes before he's due to go out. At any rate, when I yell up the stairs, I realize that he is just going to keep playing guitar or piano WHILE WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE! ARRRRG!

In the #2 stakes, I have issues with cliffs and precipices rather than knives. My brain just kind of goes "how AWFUL would it be to fall?" and then my legs go, "LET'S FIND OUT!" and try to propel me over the edge, so guardrails are my friend. (I'm not mental, honestly, I have no deathwish at all.) I suppose this is rather the same as getting the idea to yell something particularly foul at a quiet moment in church. Once the thought is in your head...you can't quite get rid of it.

January 04, 2006 10:22 AM

Galetea, yeah, I would so clean out the gutters too. I'm surprised that I ever get out of the house at all.
That "throw yourself off a cliff" feeling is exactly what I am talking about. I also get that while driving. And I often find myself yelling embarrassing things when it gets quiet. Especially if it is a highly inappropriate place and time. I think it makes life more interesting (not that I do it on purpose or anything), but people tend to really think that you are mental.

January 04, 2006 2:00 PM

Man, #5 is the story of my life. It takes me FOREVER to make decisions about things because I'm so afraid I'll make the wrong one. It's the primary reason I couldn't break up with my boyfriend for over a year. What if I made a mistake? (In hindsight, it was absolutely the right decision.)

Anyway, I've been working lately to sort of realize that with most things, it really doesn't matter what you do because ultimately everything will work out the way it needs to. That might not mean it's necessarily the way you WANT it to, but you just have to be ready to roll with it...

January 05, 2006 1:48 PM

#4 is my fave. LOL I have the same problem. Always fitting 4 into 3. Why be early when you can squeeze in a new project!? I ended up creating an über satchel to fight off boredom. It's like Dr. Who's Tardis. I cram so many things in it that nobody in my family ever wants to carry it for me. BUT! I am never bored if I am early. ;)

~Douglas

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http://thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com - Fighting neurological disabilities with attitude and humor

January 05, 2006 4:23 PM

ORF, naw, I'm too much of a control freak to roll with it. I metioned that in my "100 Things About Me" list (in my sidebar). If I feel that I can make a difference by my decisions, well, then I will agonize over making that decision.

There are, however many times that I get an overwhelming feeling about something and just do it no matter how crazy or improbable it seems. And THOSE decisions ALWAYS work out really well! SSB has learned over the years to just run with those crazy ideas, too.

Doug, hey, welcome to my blog! Another problem I have getting out of the house or being on time is that I can only seem to remember the things that I need to get done when I am under extreme time constraints or I'm trying to get to sleep. under either of these situations all the things that I need to do come flooding at me and they are usually things that I have forgotten for so long that they are long overdue and desperately need to be done RIGHT NOW!

Speaking of über satchels, I tend to carry everything but the kitchen sink with me. Need a pen, I have one. Need a spoon, I have one. Need a stapler, I have one. Need a tent, I have one. But the stachel needs to be something that I can attach to me because otherwise I will leave it behind. My husband follows me so that when I set my keys or bag down (as I inevitably will) he will pick it up for me. As we are heading out to the car and I suddenly panic, "Oh No! I lost my keys!!" He will heroically pull them out of his pocket. I don't know what I would do without him!

January 05, 2006 8:40 PM

you write whatever you like :)

December 29, 2005 9:06 AM

swear words work pretty damn well as adjectives.

December 30, 2005 11:38 AM

Pink Lady, it IS my blog after all, right?

Derek, abso-fucking-lutely! That is what SSB calls an "injective".

December 30, 2005 5:00 PM

You look so cute in your boots!

December 26, 2005 1:09 PM

Looks like you had a merry one Syl and SSB! All the best for your family in the new year. It's been nice to meet good blog folks like you over the past year.

December 26, 2005 1:11 PM

Cool boots!

December 26, 2005 8:02 PM

SSB, teehee!

DrMax, I feel the same way. It's been so nice to find so many great people!

Shamus, thanks! I can't wait for more snow!!

December 26, 2005 10:17 PM

Love your decorations. The best gift I received was a flower arrangement from one of my oldest friends. No one EVER sends me flowers. At first I thought it was a mistake and that they had been delivered to the wrong house. I couldn't believe they were actually for me. I was so thrilled I put them in the picture of the rum cake I made for my cooking blog. I will be posting it next week. It's a ghost story! BTW, the boots are GREAT!

December 26, 2005 11:50 PM

Love the boots and the dog biscuits and it sure sounds like you had a pleasant holiday!

December 27, 2005 8:47 AM

OldRoses, a ghost story?! I love ghost stories! I can't wait!

Indiaiynke, would you say that they are bootilicious? ;)
Perhaps the biscuits are biscuilicious!
That's a fun game.
I think I had too much coffee.

December 27, 2005 2:56 PM

Those boots look kinda like waterproof Uggs. Very stylish

December 28, 2005 2:39 PM

Wendy, geez! I've never been stylish before. I just like them because they are soft pink, sparkly, and remind me of the boots I wore during my childhood.

December 28, 2005 7:37 PM

sounds like you had a really happy christmas.Love the boots by the way as well

December 29, 2005 9:10 AM

I'm LOVING the pink Christmas decorations. I'll run that past the Rock Star for next year when we've got a proper house and a whole ROOM to fill with pink shiny!

December 30, 2005 5:12 AM

Pink Lady, it actually was a pretty good one this year!

Galetea, welcome to my blog! My husband picked out most of the decorations in that picture and even set up most of them himself! I did the goodie trays and positioned the runner on the table.

December 30, 2005 4:17 PM