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11 Hours, 4 minutes, 20 seconds and it will just be me, the dog, and the kitten for a peaceful day and a half.
 
Things that I should do while the family is away, since 8 houseguests will arrive at pretty much the same time they get home :

Finish the bathroom paint job
Clean [...]

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I’m over at Beyond The Veil today, blogging about my Summer.  Which you probably guessed, from the title, has been Interrupted.  Come say hi!

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This year seems to have evolved as The Year of Weeks with Not Enough Time.
This was another one. Last night was the first night out of the past seven that I got more than five hours straight sleep. I hope tonight is the second.
Hubby is taking the kids, and his niece, to Universal [...]

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For the second night in a row I’m gritting my teeth through my least favorite Barbie movie – Twelve Dancing Princesses.
Most of the Barbie movies are at least bearable. I like that they have made the female characters mostly self sufficient. No “rescued by the prince” device; the princess is usually quite capable [...]

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1 – From a Yahell loop today :
“I would like to change to receive messages in my email to just things I am interested in, not all items, too many emails received.”
2 – Screamed at the top of her voice by the Princess, when we gave her brother the cash from depositing his birthday checks [...]

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Made it home. A beautiful to see, nasty to drive through storm bringing flashing lightning and purple skies greeted me just before I crossed into the city, and made the last 45 minutes in the car more of a challenge than I needed. We came to the bridge just as rescue vehicles were [...]

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It’s hot in Alabama in June. Who knew?
It is also National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. Sis has an ice cream machine (that hasn’t been used since 1994). I think hot June days are the perfect time to break that baby out of the cobwebs, don’t you?

The Birmingham News had this recipe today [...]

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School is hours from being out for the summer. The two and a half hours a day in the car stopped being relaxing many weeks ago, which leaves me looking forward to a few months of not-driving. If that comes with kids in the house every day, all day, that is a trade [...]

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