It’s a Wonderful Life

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Bonds with my oldies, but goodies. To set the record straight, I’m referring to friendships here, not age. Come on. However, after last night, I am definitely feeling it. Slow on the up-start and coffee did not help. Aleve Gel caps were my panacea of choice. Let’s just say I was licking my wounds. Good [...]

A Slightly Different Bucket List

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I’ve always wanted to write a bucket list; for things I have never done or 40 things before 40.  I know you have heard of them. But here’s the thing, when I start, writers block sets in. My fingers stop tapping on the keyboard.  I can come up with; Effie Tower, French Laundry, and learn [...]

Bits and Pieces from Yesterday

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A day in the life, Southern California style. 5:45am More 7:00am 7:15am 7:30am 9:00am Sunglasses and Bi-Focal Discussion 9:30am 10:00am 11:30am 12:30pm The Maddox Daphney Buddy 1:30pm on hold. 2:30pm Laundry, jealous. I know you are. snuggles Let’s ride 4:00 pm mail time 5:00pm Dinner prep 5:15pm Smells good 5:30pm 6:30 Angels vs. Oakland 7:00pm [...]

Tidbits to Catch Up

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HI! How are you doing? I’m back, after a very brief blogging hiatus. To unload my mind, here it what is on the ole internal radar: The Ellen Show. Love her. We record the show daily and dance with her in the aisles right here in the living room. It’s like we are there. Why the [...]

All Hail The Bloggers Help Desk

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It was the day my site almost came to a blogging deadend. Yes, fresh off a completely relaxing Spring Break vacay. I was stuck. REALLY STUCK. A word that rhymes with stuck was living rent free upstairs most of the day. Until The Bloggers Help Desk came to the rescue. Let’s back up. {I’ll go [...]

Spring Break Palm Desert Style

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The kids are out of school on Spring Break, Palm Desert was calling. Palm Desert is only an hour and a half away from the OC (without traffic). Once you arrive, with the weather and the feel of the resort, you could have been in Hawaii, Cabo, or Florida. But we were right in our [...]

Wordish Photo Wednesday

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Been busy. Lawdy. Two words, Silent Auction (committee of one). You should see my house. It’s reminiscent of the week I took off to read the Twilight Series. Dirty dishes to the ceiling, laundry both clean and not so clean strewn everywhere. You get the picture. So for now, for today, I’ll share a few [...]

A UCLA Campus Visit

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DH and I met in a little bar on the corner of Gayle and Weyburn in 1991 just off the Campus. It was known as Santopietro at the time. More recently, say in the 2000’s,  the bar went by the name of Maloney’s On Campus. Today, I do not know who owns it, but the [...]

Food From My Frontier by Ree Drummond

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Ree Drummond is also known as The Pioneer Woman. She is the wife of a rugged sexy chaps wearing cowboy (all those adjectives are correct) and mother of four fun-loving children on The Drummond Ranch in Oklahoma. She has horse, and sometimes cow, poop on her front porch more times than she likes to admit.  [...]