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Lucky

You know that person you can tell anything to who won't judge or betray you but always listens and helps when needed?

I'm lucky enough to have more than one of those. Thanks, my literal lifesavers!

Here, Fishy, Fishy Fishy!

My youngest daughter whined me into buying her a fish today. It's a beta fish. She named it Cheese, short for Blueberry Cheesecake, because it's blue and white. My oldest was unsuccessful in whining, cajoling, or bribing me into buying her a puppy. She'll keep trying.

Lifesaving Rain

I think that, if there had been the light, sweet rain that fell tonight and scrubbed the air, filling it with such a powerfully wonderful, clean smell, falling on the day my mother died, maybe she wouldn't have.

Spring Surprises

Spring is in the air. The flowers are blooming. The green grass is long and lush. The leaves on the trees shade the surrounding areas. Baby animals are everywhere you look. The birds are singing all around...and crapping all over my car. Every single day when I leave the house to go to work, there are new little presents from the birds starring my little red car. And accompanying the bird splotches are little blossom petals and seed pods from the trees hanging overhead. They are incredibly sticky, resisting windshield wiper fluid and snow scraper passes. I'm thinking of getting one of those covers rich people use to protect their vintage cars. It'd be cheaper than the thrice weekly car washes!

Cookoo for Sudoku

My best friend, Stacy, was the first to show me how to play Sudoku years ago. I have always had a talent for seeing patterns in things, a drive for problem solving, and of course it feeds my obsessive complusiveness. When I set up my homepage with iGoogle last year, I found a free game application and put the game on my homepage. Bad idea. It was so distracting that I had to take it off. And when I discovered an app for the Palm, I had to change the main screen of my company's emergency phone when I carried it so I wasn't continually presented the option/threat. I hadn't played the game in a while, having successfully hidden it from my notice. But recently I spent some time in hospital waiting rooms with my Grampa. In the days leading up to that event, I knew I'd have some down time, so I purchased a Sudoku puzzle book on a whim. Another bad idea. I happened across the book over the weekend, and it's all I did all weekend long. My fingers literally hurt from holding the pencil. And this week, I caved and put the app back on my iGoogle. Ugh. There needs to be a support group. So soon I'll be digging deep for the will power to expunge Sudoku from my life...once again. Maybe I'll swap it for Mountain Dew again. That was a fun addiction to fight...NOT. I need to find a healthy addiction, like yard work or genealogy or something else healthy, useful, and practical. Any ideas?