Archive for November, 2009

Shhh….

Didn’t you hate it when you were little and someone said “I have  a secret but I can’t tell you what it is?”.
Well guess what? I HAVE a secret but I can’t tell ya what it is.
I can’t even tell Hubs all of the details.  After the little bit I did tell him I said “Now [...]

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Where Do We Go From Here?

It has always been one of those things that we didn’t need to worry about right now.
It was several years away. Then it was just years away. Now it is only months away.
It = High School.  God Help Me.
The way it works here, as I am assuming it is in most places, your public high [...]

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Mirror Image

This was the first picture I took Saturday at the zoo.
Pretty cool if I do say so myself. It was a total fluke.

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Its A ???

Meet the newest member of the Casa de Mar clan.
 
This is Myrtle. As in Myrtle the Turtle. But Myrtle is actually a African Sulcata Tortoise.
As you can see, Myrtle is just a wee bitty right now. That 59.5? Is grams. Which is about 1/3 of a pound.
Full grown? She can [...]

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I Couldn’t Ask For Anything More.

Thursday and Friday were half days at school for parent teacher conferences.
 
My girl is adjusting well. Her grades are good and she is happy. What more can we ask for?
 
Noodle’s teacher asked me towards the end of the conference if she was an “only”. I said  “She sure is”.  Then her teacher said [...]

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Bank of Mar

Somedays I wish I was as tough as I think that I am.
I had at guy who was doing some work (painting our sign) at the shop.
Last week when he started the project I gave him a personal check for a down payment / to buy the supplies he needed.
Today he brough the sign back and [...]

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Bah Humbug.

I should have known when Hubs woke me up yesterday at 6:30 and asked me when Urgent Care* opened that things weren’t going to go as planned.
Friends were supposed to come over for our annual pumpkin carving par-tay. Didn’t happen.
More friends were supposed to come over later (who couldn’t make it for pumpkin [...]

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