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TEAM CANADA TAKES THE GOLD!!!!!!!

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Both the Men’s and Women’s hockey teams took Gold! WOW!!!
SO VERY PROUD of our phenomenal Olympic athletes and their amazing performances at these Olympics, hosted by us in Vancouver. Canada actually took the most gold medals with 14, which breaks the record for most golds taken by a [...]

I am so excited.
All my life I’ve been living with horrible vision, which has held me back from so many things I’ve wanted to do! When I was little I wanted to be a pilot. A fighter pilot, actually, and then a commercial pilot. Kinda need to have good eyes for that. Then of course, [...]

Wow, that was dramatic, wasn’t it??
I had about a dozen vials of blood taken on Monday in anticipation of a visit with my doctor today. Foremost on my mind was the extreme levels of cholesterol I was harboring at the last visit, and what that could mean in the long run, given my family history [...]

Nope, not a new meme, I just couldn’t come up with a better title.
First, the contest news!
JennyMac is one of the best bloggers out there – I enjoy her so much. I don’t usually need much prompting to extol the many virtues of this brilliant, vibrant gal, and today is no different – its [...]

Actually, I can’t. I’m what you might call blind as a bat.
Myopia (near sightedness) with astigmatism (irregular shaped cornea) runs in my family on my mother’s side – every woman, and some of the menfolk, too, have extremely poor vision. I am no exception, so when I was about 9 years old, I got [...]

Recently I organized a fundraiser for our larger choral group, which took place last night. That I didn’t have a camera on me will forever have me mentally kicking myself!!
I haven’t put together too many fundraisers before, all by my lonesome. Ok, I confess; this was the first one. The opportunity just hadn’t presented [...]

Sitting here mulling things over today. I don’t feel like posting in great detail about the things that are bothering me, but maybe a wish list will suffice.
I wish…
…that we lived in simpler times
…that ShaMoo didn’t have so many things to worry about with her babies
…that true happiness was within my reach
…that I didn’t [...]

If this is showing up in your reader, can you swing by and let me know? My last 2 posts are NOT showing up for me in my reader.
Thanks much!
–Jenn
Note: I turned off Akismet, and up popped the missing posts. It’s probably my theme, according to the helpful folks who haunt the WordPress help [...]

I’m in a bit of a Zen place right now. Trying hard to hold onto the peaceful calm that settled over me while we were on vacation, soaking up the rays on the beach in Florida. I know if I give in and really “get back to it” that my stress levels will jump again, [...]

I’m a little melancholy lately, and I think it shows a bit in the way I’ve only been keeping up on my haiku and sometimes a couple other memes. Every blogger/writer goes through blah periods, and this one appears to be mine. I just don’t “feel” the words coming, and writing is a bit of [...]

My sweet friend Jade laid this bit of love on me today – such a nice surprise!

Here are the details of the award: (and I quote)
*This award is bestowed on blogs that are exceedingly charming.
*These kind Bloggers aim to find and be friends.
*They are not interested in self-aggrandizement.
*Our hope is that when the ribbons [...]

Okay, I admit it: I’m a foodie. I know this doesn’t come as a shock to Jenn or DoodleCakes but for those of you who don’t know me, I can be motivated to do almost anything if the right food is involved (and God only knows what I’d do for one of DoodleCakes’ creations…) [...]

I try hard to make a point of visiting everyone involved in any particular meme each week – sometimes (like the past couple weeks, when free time was a commodity I did not have) I fall short, and for that I apologize! I try to spend some quality time and really take in the meaning [...]

Poor Boo, we do abuse her patience so. Yesterday we found a display of hallowe’en costumes for kitties, and when we saw the bunny ears, well, we had to have them.
I mean really – how cute is Boo?

When the girls got home from school today, Wee One immediately grabbed the ears again, and put [...]

We had my father’s 65th birthday party last night.
Wee One helped me decorate…

Doodle Cakes furnished a completely fantastic cake, encompassing many characteristics unique to my Dad…

To explain this wonderful creation; My father is a super hero, leaping to the aid of anyone in our family who shows any distress (whether we want him to [...]

Our servers have been having issues with a couple faulty drives – you might have noticed that I’ve “disappeared” a couple times recently, and that’d be why. It will happen again as the faulty drives are swapped out, but then we should be ok. Sorry for the disappearing act!
Happy Haiku Wednesday! Hope to see [...]

I’ve been very quiet in here lately, and late on a few things that normally I’m very “on top of”. I’ll have to chalk it up to stress – I have a huge contract that I’m trying to complete, which spans the entire country, and finding people for it has proven… problematic.
I am looking [...]

The Teen and I had a Mother-Daughter evening out, just the two of us, in celebration (ok, I was celebrating, she wasn’t) her return to high school tomorrow.
Sing it with me now:
It’s the Most WONDERFUL Time… of the year!!!
Anyway. Because she was away almost the whole summer, she had not yet seen the latest [...]

I’ve been quiet this week due to my father being in the hospital with chest pains. He’s home now, and we’re waiting on some tests to come back and a visit to his cardiologist next week. In all likelihood, he has a blocked artery, and will need either an angiogram/stents, or – and I really [...]

A Milestone in Blogging, so I guess we should celebrate!

I thought long and hard about what to do for my 100th post, but short of coming up with a list of 100 things about me you never wanted to know… I figured maybe I’d have a giveaway instead!
What is my giveaway, you ask? Well, [...]