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Celebrate!

I have my car back! It spend a week in the body shop getting the passenger side tended to (ripped off, hammered out, repainted, and some parts replaced) after a minor prang. I missed it terribly. It's my baby car, the first new car we ever bought, the

The lie revealed

Most of you guessed right, I'll have to make it harder next time! I know how to make an atomic bomb True. Picked the theory up for that one in high school, learned more of the nuclear process while getting my physics degree. I used to be left

Truths and lies

Found on Delayra's blog, via Claw Marks: Four truths and a lie. Which is the lie? 1. I know how to make an atomic bomb 2. I used to be left handed 3. I can count to ten in Latin 4. I was born in New Zealand 5.

Nouwen

Picked up Seeds of Hope, a Henri Nouwen reader in Barnes and Noble this afternoon, between picking up the bits to fix the desktop machine, groceries, and dropping the car off for repairs. It is selections from his writings about subjects as varied as mysticism, career, writing, and children. A

Colourful

Take a look at the website of Laurel Burch, an artist in California who has produced some amazing, colourful work. Her Fantastic Felines collection is my favourite, you can see some of it here, here, and here. Celebrating the horse is her newer work.

Phantom

If you haven't already seen the movie version of Phantom of the Opera, go see it now. Today. It's excellent. The Phantom is handsome then repulsive, Raoul is a little blond for my taste but well played, and Minnie Driver plays Carlotta brilliantly. The voices are

Music

Bowling for Soup "1985" The Killers "Somebody told me" Ingram Hill "Will I ever make it home" Howie Day "Collide" Gavin Degraw "I don't want to be" Green Day "Boulevard of broken dreams" If I could

Ouch!

I'm sat on the floor in front of the coffee table, peaceably eating my chicken curry. Behind me, Quantum the cat is sleeping on the futon. Suddenly it feels like I've been whacked on the head by the phone directory! My neck burns, my eyes water.

Rounding up the year

The Tsunami blog has links to sites you can donate to. On the home front, the basement has been painted a happy shade of pale yellow, as opposed to the dingy white it used to be. Finished the second coat today, and it's a huge improvement. The Morehouse

Merry Christmas!

The house is firmly undecorated, apart from the piece of ribbon the cats nabbed from my homegroup gift swap present. There is no tinsel, no tree, and yet the sound of Christmas carols is in the air. Hubby's preaching on Boxing Day (26th December) at an old people&

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