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love nest vs. money pit

30.4.07
Every so often I reach a state of tiredness where one of my eyelids start to twitch. I am at that point and it is only the beginning of the week. Thanks to the help of my wonderful Papa, Aryn and I are well into the renovations of our condomaximus. My father arrived to help on Wednesday evening and what was meant to...

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give in to temptation

22.4.07
Waiting for breakfast... learning new things about myself.You are The EmpressBeauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at homedecorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While...

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photography

film buff

13.4.07
I was just looking at photographer Bill Wadman's site 365 Portraits... and then suddently I started to miss my camera.I took some photos for a friend of a friend's Doctoral Concert on Wednesday night but I haven't had the chance to process the photos yet. The conditions were less than optimal, it was a church with challenging lighting conditions. As the focus was...

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environment

wash away your iniquity...

13.4.07
ode to pontius pilate © Raffaella LoroThe weather puzzles me. One moment there's snow and then overnight it disappears. I'm absolutely estatic about the change. It has been a long and dreary winter and I have been anxious to throw off the shackles of sock season.Today is officially the day. My decision to go sockless was in part prompted by my inability to...

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proclivity test

10.4.07
The long weekend is over and the snow is back. It doesn't seem possible that July is only three months away. How does the weather change so much in such a short time?The return on the snow left me in such a foul mood this morning. In an effort to prevent a bout of bad weather induced depression I decided to focus on...

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entertainment

cinemaphile

7.4.07
It's Day Two of my visit to Fort St. John. Yesterday I was feeling a bit sick (*kaff, kaff) so I hung around the house and did a whole lot of nothing. I finished reading JPod by Douglas Coupland and watched a series of boring home movies from the family archives. My family likes to do this when our significant others are around,...

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sing sweet nightingale...

3.4.07
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } TV is chewing gum for the eyes. © Raffaella Loro I was meaning to post something tonight, but poor Aryn is sick and I've been busy tending to him with water and other such essential get-well remedies all the while entertaining him...

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