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            <p>Oh, wow... it&#39;s still Tuesday. I thought it was after midnight already but it&#39;s not. Whaddya know about that?!</p><p><span style="color: #666666"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Loathe:</span></strong></span><br /><ul><li>People who return to work after a vacation with as much asshole attitude as when they left</li><li>Other stuff</li></ul><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Love:</span></strong></span><br /><ul><li>A feral/semi-feral kitty has been playing on the roof and in the attic
crawlspace, just like Moshi did before I tamed him. On Sunday night, I
heard a commotion but thought it was my cats fighting in the bedroom.
Last night I was in the bedroom when it happened and it was distinctly
coming from the roof and/or attic and I was sure I heard something jump
on the water heater cover (again, cause Moshi used to do that). But I
didn&#39;t know what type of animal it was because I have a decent sized
ficus tree next to the heater so something could have been using the
tree to get up/down. And there where lots of other noises that sounded
like branches being gathered, and stuff being banged around. I figured
it probably wasn&#39;t an opossum because they&#39;re usually more stealth.
Around 2am, I got up for a Tylenol (brain wouldn&#39;t shut up; partial
fail on the sleep med kicking but better than using prescription drugs)
and came back to Espressa staring out the window. I thought she saw my
reflection but when I turned of the light, I saw a &quot;teenage&quot; looking
kitty run across the neighbor&#39;s roof. Although it was dark, I thought it looked like a grey kitty - also like Moshi.</li><li>Tomorrow... Wednesday, Dec 30... is <a href="http://stuft.vox.com">CRANKYPANTS </a>birthday</li></ul><span style="font-size: 1.95312em;"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 1.95312em;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE WONDERFUL MS. CRANKYPANTS!! </span><br /></strong></span>I still haven&#39;t mailed your present and I&#39;m too lazy to look for cute art to include in this post.</p><p>[15 min later] Huh... whaddya know... I lied:<br /><a href="http://www.someecards.com/card/1344"><img alt="May your birthday be devoid of cute animals and soul-shredding wordplay" src="http://d3gkbha1s7sr56.cloudfront.net/someecards/filestorage/bir_54.jpg" /></a><br /> </p>
        
    
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        <title>Things on Tuesday for 12/29/2009</title>
    
    
    
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            <p><u>Love:</p></u><ul><li>Having paid holiday from Dec 24th through Jan 3rd.&#160; One of the few perks left about my job.</li><li>Surprise Christmas Gifts.&#160; One from my Mom.&#160; The other was from my friend, Amy.&#160; Both were awesome and completely unexpected.&#160; Thank you both again!!</li><li>Mythbusters marathon.&#160; It&#39;s one of those shows I used to watch all the time with my Dad.&#160; For some reason, it&#39;s taken a long time for me to open up and start watching it again.&#160; Anyhow, I&#39;ve recorded a bunch on the DVR and watched some here and there.</li><li>Catching up with old friends.</li><li>The book, The Zombie Survival Guide.&#160; Tongue and Cheek?&#160; Yes, but it&#39;s entertaining.</li><li>The podcast, Busted Halo.&#160; I&#39;m, by all means, not a religious person, but find certain aspects of religion interesting.&#160; This podcast spares you on the preaching and is more of a questions and answers type of show.&#160; I guess it&#39;s what I would like to get out of going to church without the drawn out preaching and singing.&#160; Now if I can find something similar on other religions.<br /></li></ul><p><br /><u>Loathe:</u></p><ul><li>Missing my Dad during the Holidays.&#160; It&#39;s been two years and Mom and I are still fumbling around, trying to figure out how to celebrate Christmas.</li><li>Needing new tires for my car.<br /></li><li>eBay</li><li>My current sleeping habit (or lack of)</li><li>My holiday eating frenzy.&#160; I so need to improve my diet.</li><li>Denting one of my SIG bottles<br /></li></ul> 
        
    
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            <p>Hey it&#39;s the last Tuesday of 2009!</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Love:</p>
<p>I took my car in for it&#39;s first tune up and boy it wasn&#39;t cheap BUT it runs great now and I can make it to 60 again on the freeway!</p>
<p>2009 is coming to an end.</p>
<p>My sweater dress I got at Banana Republic that hugs my butt just so.</p>
<p>Majenta Pink lately.</p>
<p>Orange Juice.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Loathe:</p>
<p>All my Christmas money, retro pay and overtime went to paying attorneys.</p>
<p>I&#39;m stressed.</p>
<p>I&#39;m currently sick and have had bad pains in my stomach. * which I hope will all go away now that the holidays are passing...*</p>
<p>Pacquiao- Mayweather fight is postponed.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
        
    
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        <title>Things on the last Tuesday of 2009</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2009-12-30T02:21:46Z</published>
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            <p>So, I thought I&#39;d do something a little different for the last Tuesday of the year.&#160; I looked back at most of my posts for the year to see what sticks out the most from my year and I find that I spent a lot of the year sad, stressed and depressed.&#160; Which really isn&#39;t a good thing as the year started off so promising.&#160; So, I&#39;m going to try to end the year positively by reflecting on what was bad and how it turned out to be good.</p><p><span style="color: #144692; font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong>Totally Terrible year of Tuesdays:</strong></span><br /><ul><li>I spent much of the second half of the year stressed and depressed about losing my job.&#160; The job is gone, but the benefits are still around and will be around until February.&#160; While I don&#39;t have any prospects at the moment I do not anticipate there being a long job search.&#160; I have skills that any fast food place or retail store would salivate over.&#160; While I do not want to go back to either the food industry or the retail industry I know that I can if necessary.</li><li>I spent much of August and September very sad and depressed.&#160; The 10th anniversary of Samuel&#39;s birth/death day was just too overwhelming.&#160; I ended up in therapy to help me over come the anxiety that surrounded my sister-in-law naming her new son Samuel.&#160; A &#39;closure ceremony&#39; helped to ease the pain and agony that I was feeling when faced with meeting the new baby.&#160; <br /></li><li>Excel caused me many a headache this year.&#160; I have learned to save projects on a regular basis and to think before deleting things.</li><li>Even though it&#39;s been a year...I still miss OC.&#160; I wonder how my backyard would be different if she hadn&#39;t lost her life so soon after moving into town.&#160; (I guess there isn&#39;t a way to put a positive spin on this one.)<br /></li></ul>Also, the good things that happened this year.<br /><span style="color: #8f42ad; font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong>Totally Terrific year of Tuesdays:</strong></span><br /><ul><li>My Mom took me to Hawaii with her.&#160; I have a lot of pictures and plenty of fun memories from that trip.</li><li>A summer trip to St. Louis was full of family and fun; and even though I hurt my tailbone I&#39;m glad we went and took time together as a family to just &#39;be&#39;.<br /></li><li>Even though he&#39;s stumbled a time or two Jordan is still excelling in school and has been invited to be a part of the school&#39;s Geography Quiz.</li><li>Thanksgiving in Tupelo was another time filled with family fun.&#160; It was so good to see everyone and to meet the newest addition to the family.</li><li>Decorating the new house has been a fun experience and I have new found respect for Chris and his pursuit of perfection.&#160; The house is awesome due to his relentless searching for just the &#39;right&#39; object.</li><li>The house decorated for Christmas is even better than I had imagined and anticipated.&#160; I will not be ready to take it all down in the upcoming weeks.</li><li>Hummingbirds, sparrows and doves are just some of the birds that were attracted to the new backyard.</li><li>The backyard is also filled with flowering plants.&#160; There was something in bloom from February to December as the Camilla bushes are still in full bloom.</li></ul><span style="color: #de8c9f; font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong>Looking forward to 2010 and all that life has in store for me.</strong><br />Happy New Year to all of my VOX friends!&#160; I hope the new year is good to you and yours.<br /></span><br /> </p>
        
    
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            <p>Loathe:<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -I hate winter. I  hate winter. I  hate winter. I  hate winter. I  hate winter. I  hate winter. I  hate winter. I  hate winter.<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -Suddenly feeling like I really failed big time in life and all my optimism and planning is just a big lie to ease the pain<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -The spot where the nurse drew blood last week still hurts! Boo :(<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -The howling wind<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -Failed cookies</p><p>Love:<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -all the awesome music on my shuffle<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -that my car still runs even in this cold<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -that I do not have to go outside<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -It&#39;s only 5:30, I might feel better about this day before I go to bed<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; -crossword puzzles<br /> </p>
        
    
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            <p><strong><em>The line of the title refers to the whole is a sum of the parts.&#160; I just read the highlights of the legislation concerning the &#39;Florida President&#39;.&#160; Given the essence of individual thought, I realize I must reread to &#39;get as much as possible&#39;, even the parts I do not agree with, or care to see.&#160; I read it several times.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>This is clearly opinion and I would not have it any other way.&#160; The very fact of objectivity, in human assessment, is as flawed as an &#39;announced truth&#39;.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>When the last president, #43, was elected in 2000 the situation was not what I call credible.&#160; I read the election &#39;notes&#39;; it has done nothing but reinforce my opinion that they should have waited for a recount.&#160; By the time the second election rolled around I, along with many others was alarmed.&#160; I did not get scared, or afraid to speak.&#160; I took a military oath to the constitution.&#160; I am an American.&#160; I vote my consciense. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>When his father, President #41 came into office, I had severe doubt of his ability to do the job well.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Mr. Clinton, as president, had done some things to cause severe public reaction but we continued to live and the economy was making some attempt at stability.&#160; There were the predictable, in many cases, hypocritical and rushed reactions, concerning what were seen by me as private issues.&#160; Mr. Clinton lives in a world of judgement and position.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>This was predictable.&#160; I have said many times the U.S. is notoriously &#39;staight laced&#39;.&#160; Mr. Clinton had his eight years after all.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The Bush-Quail ticket won.&#160; I, at the time disallusioned with politics, did comment on the fact that he was former head of the CIA.&#160; The CIA deals in extreme situations.&#160; They deal in the shadows.&#160; A U.S. intelligence agent, on active duty, has never been tried for murder or anything that I can recall or have read of.&#160; Not in- or credited in the U. S. &#160; Then the&#160;Clinton administration had the reigns for eight years hence.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>A son, if psychology, what I have seen in life, indeed what is credited to genetics has any validity, will try to please his father.&#160; He does and believes what he is told. &#160;He does this in rebellion.&#160; He does this unknowingly.&#160; Lengthy books of one thread and thought, in the interest of theory to proof have been written on this very thing.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>As I write about things that concern, &#39;alternative realities that affect&#39;, sublimates, the influence of the mass media, I see some things clearly.&#160; I do, as I have said, call these things, &#39;subtext that affect&#39;.&#160; They are subtext because they are many times the creation of professional, writers, behavioral scientists, media experts and statisticians familiar with things recorded that only they care about, until they are needed.&#160; They rarely have anything to do with current, real life.&#160; Politics are redundant action, or confusion and inaction.&#160; To an artist where anything may, &#39;sound like a lie if it&#160;continues past its time&#39;, it&#160;is and enormous waste&#160;of everything, for not doing it right the first time.&#160;&#160;&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>They have at hand statistics.&#160; They have very credible &#39;predictables&#39; on human response.&#160; Great achievements have been done.&#160; These very methods have been deployed to affect and get public support.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>In writing this, if one has read this far, I can see anyone educated, that thinks of these things, going...&#39;Well Yeah&#39;!</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>This is done because they believe it does not effect them.&#160; They think the awareness may make them invulnerable to such &#39;drivel&#39;.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>If that were so, the corporations, the governments of the world, religious institutions and evangelists would not employ television, papers and any form of mass media they can, to use them.&#160;&#160; It is not enough to be aware.&#160; Being inerred and impervious to these efforts is difficult.&#160; Once sensed, it is in your mind.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I see at this point some things that, though predictable are worthy of mention.&#160; President Obama, though working a system known to be flawed, is trying to do good things.&#160; He is a politician.&#160; He is not trying to run the world.&#160; He is sophisticated, I believe, aware and a man of moral center.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>This is as far as I go with politics.&#160; I try not to let my gut instinct be disturbed or sullied with propaganda.&#160; I certainly do not give credence to the misnomer or race, as used in socio-political context.&#160; I believe religion to be highly personal and private.&#160; In life he is a man who has seen many things.&#160; Apparently he has the ability to remember in context.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>As I was stunned by the deluded application&#160;of sensational issues, in recent modern history, I am again stunned by the short term memory loss of so many people who claim to be in the know.&#160; It is heartbreaking to know that children starve.&#160; It is heartbreaking that they would not be starving if their leaders were not so inept for whatever reason.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>And then there is the fact that the Jews got on the trains not believing in the savagry of man.&#160; Once again, not believing the credited history of eons.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I see hope.&#160; I see many living on concrete&#160;and things all around me fighting for life, love and freedom.&#160; I only see a few of the darkly confused.&#160; Confusion is evil.&#160; Indecision will harm you or slow down your purpose.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>When someone is on the street and they are in that netherworld.&#160; The one in a strange town.&#160; The one where they have no money and no one to call on.&#160; If they speak to me, if they appear lost, I will try to present them with a map of sorts.&#160; They are between homes.&#160; All kinds of people have different types of maps.&#160; The bus stations are full of them.&#160; They know the basic rules of survival.&#160; Sometimes they mount the riders who just departed the bus, plane or train.&#160; Getting off transportation, in a strange town, I would walk, making sure I was alone.&#160; I would look to the stars.&#160; Someplace where I could smell the clean air.&#160; Feel a tree and dirt or grass &#39;neath my feet.&#160; There is a truth there.&#160; The truth of resolve.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Mass media has put us in the know in some ways.&#160; It has made lying a sophisticated process.&#160; It has made the truth unattainable, save for the moment.&#160; Folks go to school or forms of training for long periods of time to do nothing but deploy what are called realities.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The child is still hungry.&#160; The wars go on.&#160; The hospitals close.&#160; It is a cause to celebrate when one is reopened.&#160; I feel we must regain our center.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I know this will never be done with oppression or attrition.&#160; This is only a stop gap measure that makes for &#39;hell to pay&#39;, confusion on the road, confusion in the sky, the devils on the loose some know the reason why.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Peace Tony</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em></em></strong>&#160;</p>
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<p><strong><em>(c.DuckProd.AC2612092138hxpvwpls)</em></strong></p>
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            <p><strong><em>During the time of what has been called many things, &#39;age of enlightenment&#39;, &#39;psychadelic revolution&#39;, &#39;The Revolution&#39;, &#39;Hippie era&#39;, and so on, there were a lot of books written and discovered.&#160; Some of these books were pertinent to pshycic or psychological phenomena.&#160; &#39;The Tibetan Book of the Dead&#39; was one of these books.&#160; Another was &#39;The Third Eye&#39;.&#160; For those of you familar with.....there was &#39;The Joyous Cosmolgy&#39; by Alan Watts.&#160; Timothy Leary, of course, was a doctor of psychology with tenure at Harvard U.&#160; The &#39;brainy many&#39; imparted a lot of previously esoteric knowledge, to be stupidly, in some cases, embellished upon by anyone who could read.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The immediate problem that many encountered with this was their own fine minds.&#160; Without the foundation of knowledge, to compliment this wonderous area of life, the potential for personal disaster was apparent.&#160; It was so much in view that sometimes it was that and that alone which put people on &#39;bad trips&#39;, driving some back into the very society they sought to change and turning some into the capitalists they portended to revile.&#160; It was for the most part a time of fun, confusion, direction, education and mostly harmless.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Some pronounced firmly that they were communists.&#160; This became so common that there was a right wing reaction, from reactionaries which could just as easily have been left wing.&#160; Extremism is extremism, each with the intellectual paths and academtia which ultimately goes to the same place for most of these folks.&#160; Back to their parents house, or their apartments, to listen to the stereo, read or god forbid watch T.V.&#160; For years I did not have a television in my home.&#160;&#160; In an aside, &#39;Once while living in the country, I was in my living room.&#160; There was a girl sitting on the floor in front of me.&#160; I was seated in a chair and she was leaned back comfortably on the chair.&#160; There were three other couples sitting around.&#160; We were watching a black and white, transistorized television.&#160; Cheap and functional.&#160; Late at night they used to show old monster movies.&#160; We had all been partying and other things for a couple of days and were ready to rest.&#160; We would rest soundly and warmly with the lull of boring old movies until....an obnoxious, loud used car salesman, with the enhanced volume of commercials, would wake us up.&#160; I was usually one of the first aroused to the irritation and watched my peers jerking to awake at different times in varying moods of irritibility and need to use the one bathroom.&#160; After what was two or three hours, I reached to the wall behind my chair, got a twenty guage pump action Winchester shotgun and shot the television dead.&#160; The enormous noise REALLY woke everyone up.&#160; The murder victim flew back, almost out the window, caught on the sill, appeared to belch and smoke rose from its smashed face.&#160; It slipped quietly down the wall, leaving a trail of dust, to the floor where it sighed its last.&#160; There was silence.&#160; Then one quiet laugh, then we all cracked up.&#160; The car sales man was dead.&#160; For the moment.&#160; I do want to say this was at three in the morning, in the country, with a short range weapon.&#160; I do not recommend you or anyone trying it.&#160; It happened.&#160; One of the only t.v.s I had in those years.&#160; What I thought of television.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Back to matters at hand.&#160; As with every new generation, but new and for the first time, this one has its spirits, search for answers to the big question, among many others, and a &#39;new latest is the greatest&#39;, never done before type of thing.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>In the &#39;Tibetan Book of the Dead&#39; it mentions &#39;Bardos&#39;.&#160; They are portrayed, accurately as I saw, to a point, levels of growing consciousness.&#160; It did help as a guide.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I see there are sites and blogs that have to do with the &#39;paranormal&#39;.&#160; Among these is what is known as the &#39;Astro Level&#39; or the 2nd Bardo.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I have experienced the astro level.&#160; I believe, because I have seen, in an astro self that can move with the speed of light and the comprehension of everything it embraces.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>At this point I will say I have shared this experience, each of us writing our astro experience down, in some cases, with others.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The intensity and revealing to the five &#39;regular&#39; senses is a matter I cannot speak of except to say it appears as with anything, to be a skill or natural thing for each person.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>For hard line skeptics or those who just refuse to believe or see, there are big organizations that spend a lot of money on labs, worked by intelligent, sometimes gifted people, at great expense.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The &#39;Astro Level&#39; is not rocket science.&#160; The most I can say is if you experience it you will know.&#160; Stay close to the line that is your own.&#160; Do not allow yourself to be frightened or distracted.&#160; Do not run or evade because then you may confuse yourself with what you see.&#160; That can be confusing as hell in these areas.&#160; Do not do it when you are insecure.&#160; Use common sense.&#160; You may see anything, you do not have to participate.&#160; Have someone watch your physical self.&#160; Do it in a secluded or secure location.&#160; Once you are &#39;out&#39; of your body,&#160;a lot of these questions will answer themselves.&#160; You are interpeting everthing you see.&#160; You are not creating it.&#160; It is not a dream.&#160; Once I was comfortable with it, not often, I&#160;found,&#160;it can happen while asleep.&#160;&#160;It is still not a dream!&#160;</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>In my generation a lot of us were young.&#160; A lot of people thought of this as party time.&#160; How you feel is none of my business, except to say that I hope you feel strong and good.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Any pshychic experience takes a lot of discipline.&#160; Any psychic experience, if it is real, I have found to use enormous energy.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>If it involves the paranormal, there are other energies at play there, it may only involve you.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I wanted to say this.&#160; Obviously I did.&#160; It is not anything but something else in my experience.&#160; For those of you learning or avoiding, for those of you who do not have the need, this is my input.&#160; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Peace Tony&#160; (c.Duck Prod.ACxpvwpls1012090940h)</em></strong></p>
        
    
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            <p><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 1.95em;">Bad Things on Tuesday</span><br /></span></strong></span>
</p><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Still </span>sniffling with a cold&#160;</span></span>
</li><li><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It&#39;s too cold for Florida right now, It was in the 40&#39;s this morning when I was walking my dog</span></span>
</li><li><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My toes are frozen. Really they are ice cubes now.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So cold out this morning I didn&#39;t want to get out of bed.<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Realizing that I didn&#39;t book my hotel room in time for the totally awesome hotel special for our trip to Seattle</span></span></li></ul><p><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.95em;">Good Things on Tuesday</span></strong><br /></span></span>
<ul><li>Finding out that the Hotel has another totally awesome special that saves me just as much money,<br /></li><li>Finally feeling like my cold is going away.</li><li>Getting my music play list for our Seattle/Portland trip ready<br /></li><li>My dog snuggling with me under the blanket this morning&#160;</li><li>Getting up in time to take out the trash, with the holidays there was a lot of trash.</li><li>Work being low key and drama free today - (so far)</li><li>Nick coming home tonight from London at around 6:30pm</li></ul> </p>
        
    
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            <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Good</span>:<div><br /></div><div>Christmas was great.Very relaxed.Lots of good food.I felt like I didn&#39;t overeat.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Watching <em>True Blood</em> on DVD(bought the first season on DVD-it was on sale....otherwise I wouldn&#39;t have)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Bad:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>My shoulder(which I sprained in September) is flaring up thanks to how cold it&#39;s been here at night.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I&#39;m not going to make it to my goal of reading 50 books this year(I&#39;m right in the middle of #49 right now).I&#39;m not going to get upset about it,because I did try(I made it to 49,after all!)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></p>
        
    
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            <p>Over again! A wonderful Christmas ended last week. Now I am enjoying the smell of every day-life. It´s so calm at work, so busy in the streets. These few days between the years are something very special. Some years ago, I hated them. I was kind of depressive and wanted them to pass as soon as possible. Now I long for them! I like to think about the passing year, its highlights, its smaller or bigger catastrophies. This year, I´m quite satisfied. It was a successful year with many changes and new orientation. A year without great losses, which is worth being celebrated.<br />Today will see &quot;Porgy and Bess&quot; at the opera. Tomorrow, I am going to (So far my plans!) to clean up my living-room and the bathroom. On Silvester, I´ll visit my parents and on New Year´s Day, I´ll see &quot;Das weiße Band&quot; (by the austrian producer Michael Haneke) at the movies.</p> 
        
    
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