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Post by Sara on Dec 8, 2009 11:39:49 GMT -5
Very pretty! Julia, wishing to be visited by the cleaning fairy, myself. on both counts.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Dec 8, 2009 11:40:28 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Anne!
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Post by Rachael on Dec 8, 2009 11:41:35 GMT -5
Currently 10.2F; overnight low 7.7F. (-12.1C, -13.5C) Julia, that's just wrongWe woke up to a 59 degree INDOOR temp - just below freezing outside. Poor baby's hands were so cold.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 11:56:24 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Anne!Julia, a rose in your color, and books
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 11:59:02 GMT -5
Currently 10.2F; overnight low 7.7F. (-12.1C, -13.5C) Julia, that's just wrongWe woke up to a 59 degree INDOOR temp - just below freezing outside. Poor baby's hands were so cold. We're warmer inside, by five degrees. Y'all need to put a radiant heater closer to the sleeping baby, I see. Julia, California houses are the coldest places ever in cold weather, except for the house in Waco, where every bedroom had three or four doors
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:02:35 GMT -5
She grew up in Nashville and is one of my favorite celebrities. He (along with his sister, Mark Harmon, Masi Oka, Jason Reitman, Jon Lovitz...) went to the same prep school as my husband. Julia, that hotbed of the power elite out in Coldwater Canyon...
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:10:39 GMT -5
Posting party? Maybe I should've gotten up at 2AM, when I couldn't get back to sleep. Well, Dallas was right about that cold front moving in after the rain. According to our outdoor thermometers, it's 33° in the back yard and 36° in the patio. Oh, the poor fruit trees... Lemon popsicles, anyone? ETA: My husband the gardener says the fruit will probably be okay - you need a hard freeze, like down to 28°, to actually damage them. On the other hand, it's supposed to be even colder tonight. P.S. Ice! Ice all over the cars! I heard you guys were going to get a cold snap. Brrrrr. We're used to it up here, but when you aren't it's quite the eye-opener and a huge pain in the butt. BTW, I adore lemon popsicles. Edy's has lemon, tangerine, strawberry and lime popsicles made with real fruit/juice. They're yummy. Lemon and tangerine are my faves. However, I hope your lemons don't freeze. It's not quite the same thing, is it? Massive cold front sliding a little west of the usual track equals sheer misery for west coast natives. I'm short the wiring capacity to run another heater; people from the Bay Area south are almost always short of insulation. The coldest I've ever slept was in LA at 30F and snow, in a big house with no heating at all. Of course, the house in Waco (designed for Franklin's grandmother, who'd been in a house-fire in her teens) where every room had doors to the outside, to the adjacent rooms, and to the central hall, none of them weather-stripped, was a cold darned experience, but luckily SweetyO believed in electric blankets. Julia, with ad hoc weatherizing everywhere.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:14:41 GMT -5
today I discovered a really anxiety causing problem, put paper in order until I understood it, asked questions, continued to ask questions even though the first set of answers told me not to worry there wasn't that problem, discovered yes in fact there was exactly the problem I thought (though I still don't know how, or how I'm the first to notice), and phoned more people until someone promised to fix it. email, phone, phone, phone, wait for call back on the phone. I can't fix it myself because it needs someone particular to sort it out, so this is as close as I can get to All Done. I can't count it All Done until a number of bits of paperwork happen though. Still, good day's work. ... I'm a fool for not noticing any time since June, but I'd have been doing rather worse to not have noticed until January, so lets call that a win. Now I should probably eat. Because humans need that. ARGH! Thanks, becca: for your brave persistence in fixing a paper-problem, and for writing about it and reminding me that I need to do a spot of that today myself. Julia, stupid stupid billing mix-up coming from a software upgrade, ugh
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:16:32 GMT -5
Khan!!!!!! for the lovely opener Onjel. I just adore Khan. Morning Scubies. We have roofers. They are pounding. My brain is leaking out my ears. Sigh. Castle was superb last night. I thought Mark was fantastic in his role and the entire show just made me go awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Ditto on Castle- and also Anne Dudek was cool! Julia, all-around grand comfort-amusement television.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:21:29 GMT -5
More signs that the old broadcast model is irretrievably broken. Julia,
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Post by Sara on Dec 8, 2009 12:23:39 GMT -5
Khan!!!!!! for the lovely opener Onjel. I just adore Khan. Morning Scubies. We have roofers. They are pounding. My brain is leaking out my ears. Sigh. Castle was superb last night. I thought Mark was fantastic in his role and the entire show just made me go awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Ditto on Castle- and also Anne Dudek was cool! Julia, all-around grand comfort-amusement television.Couldn't agree with you more. To me, Castle is the perfect way to counteract the Mondayness of Mondays.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:23:43 GMT -5
Currently 10.2F; overnight low 7.7F. (-12.1C, -13.5C) Julia, that's just wrong Holy toledo. That is indeed very, very wrong. See, that would be cold even in Vermont, right? Let alone here. Julia, extreme weather this year-end: 11 inches of rain in November, and now this (which isn't supposed to end until next week some time, ugh).
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 12:27:29 GMT -5
Ditto on Castle- and also Anne Dudek was cool! Julia, all-around grand comfort-amusement television.Couldn't agree with you more. To me, Castle is the perfect way to counteract the Mondayness of Mondays. If CBS didn't run so much filler along with HIMYM and BBT, and I could wean the household off House, my life would be complete. Of course I'm also looking at three shows at 10pm Monday starting in January (Durham County s2, and Men of a Certain Age, which started last night) which will be annoying as heck. Julia, and we need something as all-around enthrawling as Buffy, darn it.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2009 13:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Dec 8, 2009 13:45:00 GMT -5
Started reading TV Tropes, may be some time. ... started with the Blakes 7 page, proceeded through 'Anti-villain' and 'BBC Quarry'. Am now on ' BRIAN BLESSED'. IT IS SAID BY SOME THAT THE CHARACTER OF DESTRUCTION (A SENTIENT PERSONIFICATION OF DIFFICULT CHANGES WHO HAS QUIT HIS JOB TO BECOME AN ARTIST) FROM THE SANDMAN IS BASED ON HIM. SINCE AUTHOR NEIL GAIMAN IS ONE OF THE ONES WHO SAYS THIS, IT IS PERHAPS TRUE BUT NO LESS UNLIKELY. #rofl#
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