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  • A Different Kind of Love

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    I had not intended to blog about this but in answering a question posed by Finn, I copied Newscoma and the Squirrel Queen and realized it was not an email but a blog post, so here we are.  Those who follow the Facebook stuff had seen updates this week about Foster [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 3:41pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • A lot of people see my updates ...

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    A lot of people see my updates and stuff on Facebook.  I forget some of you don’t do Facebook.  Therefore, you are sitting on pins and needles wanting to see how big Foster has gotten and what all he’s into, yes?  I knew it. Foster is in the throws of puberty.  [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • She Feels A Lot Better Now

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    I know I need to update…I will soon. There’s so much I want to say about Judi  but I haven’t been able to get my head around all the things I want to say about her.   It hasn’t even sunk in that she’s gone.  I got to see her last Sunday before [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 8:40pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Breaking Hearts

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    Found out yesterday that Chelsea has heartworms.  The vet did not seem to think pursuing treatment is a good idea because of her Collie mix, age (6 years old this month)  and because treatment is $750.  The other option is to give her the preventative and kind of wait it [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Thoughts

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    When I saw this Thursday evening, it like to have tore me right on up. All the media circus, hoopla, “he was a weirdo”, opinions, pontifications, all that…here we have a guy devastated at losing his little brother. Not a thing to do with the “King of Pop” but it [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 8:58am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Tito, Get Me Some Tissue

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    I can’t add nothing to what all’s being said about Michael Jackson.  I was and am a huge fan of the KOP from the early music all the way up to Black and White. A good way for me to resurrect my Feel Good Friday here is to let the [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 6:32am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Time…

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    I know lots of people in my age group are thinking the same thing tonight: How bizarre is it that TWO of the major, Pop Culture icons of our generation died on the same day? We knew Farrah’s time was short but Michael Jackson?  This afternoon, my sister texted me about [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • B-B-B-B-B-Buh Buh Bad…

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    We’re going to break from the Mom Is Sickly blog posts and I’m gonna tell a funny story.  I had a very brief career at the cable company recently.  I can tell this now cause I don’t work there no more.  I’m telling this story as a public service announcement.  I’d [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 11:27pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • A Girl Can Dream Can’t She?

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    So I sign onto Twitter and am greeted by Mr. Cuomo….   I love the idea that Chris follows me back.   (This is my fantasy. Leave me alone)     MizCollie@busymom what? No shells?????2 minutes ago from web      ChrisCuomoYes, i mean “US”. Sorry. Leaving show 2day to go to jail. trip inside world of juvenile [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 5:34am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Tap Tap: Is This Thing On?

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    Hey Y’all…. We’re still alive and kickin’ over here.  Mom is doing ok.  She had a little “spell” and had to make a detour back to St. Tom’s last week for some chest pain.  An arteriogram was done and she had some blockage but they’re going to watch it for the [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 10:37pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • My life this week has revolved around ...

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    My life this week has revolved around St. Thomas Hospital.  I know St. Thomas really well.  We’ve been hanging out there off and on for about 30 years, beginning with a surgery my Dad had in 1979 and then with his cancer diagnosis in 1983 through his death in 1992.  Mom’s [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 7:27pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • The Beat Goes On

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    Day 4 at the hospital with Mom…. Physically, she’s doing pretty good.  Her anxiety issues are sorta what’s running the show and making it hard on her, and us.  I think she’s having major nicotine and caffeine withdrawals myself.  Last time she was in the hospital for something major, you could [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 10:35am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Mama and Them

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    I’m pretty worn out from this long day, but, wanted to get a couple things outta my head of stuff I saw and experienced. First, Mom came through her surgery fine.  She underwent a cystectomy.   It probably took about 5 hours, a little longer than expected.  A couple of the lymph [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 12:07am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Memorial Day

    Happy Memorial Day! The older I get, the more appreciative and thankful I am to live in the United States of America.   We certainly don’t have everything perfect here but dadgum, we don’t have it so bad.  It’s not so good here just ’cause we’re all so cool and deserving of [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Lookin’ Up…

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    Hey there, Chickens! Things are lookin’ up over Collie Way… I have a new job.  Another one. The other New Job was not something I could deal with.  I realize now I’d have done better to stay on the Unemployment instead of take that job (it paid SQUAT-not enough to live on [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 3:56pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Gah

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    Ya know, if I were graduating from Notre Dame University and the President were coming to speak at my graduation…I would be aggravated if the big highlight of the speech was on abortion.  I know Notre Dame’s a Catholic university.  I know they don’t like that Obama is pro-choice.  He’s the frickin’ [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 9:12am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • The Joys of COPD, 10 Year Old Logic and Potty Training

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    Life is funny.  I mean, sometimes ya just gotta laugh at it.  I’m so not up to telling the tale again but I will mention the whole job situation is different.  I should have good news to report in the next few days so for now, don’t ask me what [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • The One Where I Sound Like Eyeore

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    I wish I could get my pal Holly to write me a blog post.  She is so incredibly gifted at writing about deep things that frankly, I’m not always smart enough to totally get what she’s saying, but, it’s always so poetic and gorgeous, even if what she’s relating   may not [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 10:38pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Chiseled

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    They didn’t call him “The Voice” for nothin’…Vern Gosdin was the geunine article.  After years of health problems, mostly related to strokes, Vern died here in Nashville yesterday. The last time I saw Vern was about a year ago when CLC and I had lunch at the Cracker Barrel by Opryland.  [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 4:15am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • The Gospel According To Me

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    I have a pet peeve. Ok, so I have a few pet peeves: Mouth noises  i.e. the sound of a person eating crunchy things like potato chips, raw carrots, tic tacs (which harkens me back ten years to the absolute weirdest person I’ve ever had to work with, who was so weird [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • A Little of This and That…

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    So my Transition supervisor sat with me yesterday and listened to me take a call.  This girl is hard-assed, company minded, INTO what she does and does no coddling ya see.  Yes, I got a Thumbs Up from her and she said she wouldn’t be surprised if a year from [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 8:45am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Warning-Cuteness

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    Saturday Foster cuteness for your viewing pleasure… [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 3:48pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Suckin’ It Up

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    What a long week.  I’m so tired I can’t think straight.  To dumb it down a little, the week began with me moving into the “Transition” phase of my new job.  Now, I am not stupid.  I have done lots of the type of work I am doing now in my 23 [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 9:43am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Easter weekend has been grand.  I was ...

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    Easter weekend has been grand.  I was reminded again today how the Old Rugged Cross makes a difference.  I don’t forget it per se’ but it’s good to see how knowing Christ makes a difference in everyday life for not just me, but, others. I go from “training” to “Transition” in [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 9:02pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Coulrophobia Is Real

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    I’ve never been one to have a Clown Phobia.  I don’t quite understand it but then again, I’m sure there’s people who suffer from such affliction that don’t understand my  strange fear of mice and rats.  Anyhoo, today I had to get gas at the Hendersonville Mapco.  I’m putting the gas [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 11:16pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Saturday Words of Wisdom

    Funny, yet profound quote from this morning… #2 is watching The Three Stooges.  Curly says “If at first you don’t succeed, keep on succin’ til ya do succeed.” Of course, we laughed cause Curly said it but I got to thinking…Curly was right.   Did they even say things “sucked” back in the 30’s?  [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2009, 9:02am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • A Death in the Family

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    It’s not possible that Dan Miller  is gone from this world.  No, he wasn’t what you’d call ‘Young” but Dan Miller, although he was 67, was somehow ageless.  At least he was to me.  I’ve been in love with Dan Miller my whole life.  That is no lie.  Dan Miller moved to Nashville [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 10:12pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Wash All My Sins Away

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    Not only is it Feel Good Friday but it’s  Good Friday. For those of us who are Believers in Christ, today is a day of reflection, thanksgiving and for this Believer, utter amazement that He loved me enough to go to the Cross and die. The good part is, we know [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 9:12am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • More Puppy Love

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    My churrens spent part of their Spring Break visiting their paterfamilias kin out in North Carolina and weren’t here when the Boy Dog showed up. I think it’s safe to say that my kids dig the Boy Dog. What do you think?   I want it noted that I haven’t seen a gleam [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 5:23am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • A Reminder

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    Note to Self:  Go to Centennial Park more often. It’s even funner when you go to Centennial Park and meet new babies. Foster’s first night was pretty good.  He wanted to play about 1:30 a.m, which he did.   He is doing SO good on the potty training thing.  I can tell [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 8:55pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • The New Man In My Life

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    Newscoma and Co. are swinging into town bearing puppies about 11:30 this morning over at Centennial Park.  If you want a puppy kiss, you can probably get you one.  You can probably take one home with you if the spirit moves ya. You can’t have this one though.    He’s spoken ‘fer. I said [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 8:23am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • God’s Coloring Book

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    Other than the allergies that accompany it, I love Spring.  I wish it lasted longer but I like it while it’s here. I’ve always loved Redbud trees.  That’s one of my favorite sights of Spring.  Reminds me of growing up on Spring Valley Dr. (how appropriate) and the redbud tree that [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • And They Call It Puppy Love

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    I think Newscoma needs to ship one of these to the President.  How cool would one of these be as First Dog?  In all seriousness, these babies need homes.  Newscoma and Co. took in Mama Dog as a stray, not knowing she was with Chilrun…they already have several dogs.  They have [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 8:57am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Word…

    What’s new? 2 has become a Pogo Stick King.  Something about seeing a kid pogo sticking brings joy to my heart.  Ah, to be able to aimlessly jump up and down, not a care in the world.  Over dinner with my kids this evening, this conversation was heard…(Do note that names have [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 1:06am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Dan The Man

    Some of y’all are into Green Living and what not so you need to go here and visit my pal, Daniel.  He’s up on all that stuff.  Go say hey to him. The Danster is my padnah in crime.  He’s a good ern’. [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 7:36pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Dot Connecting

    I guess I could actually blog some words, huh? Blogging has indeed been light of late.  It’s not that I don’t have anything to say (I usually have something) but life has been in the way.  I started working.  Do I like it?  Not really.  I  know I should be grateful and [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • FGF-Set Your Watch Back To It…

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    It’s Friday so you know what time it is? Time to feel good and get on back to Tulsa Time…I gotta do both clips cause both clips kick some arse. This one is a veritable plethora of rock legends….my boyfriend, Eric Clapton, his pals Jimmy Page,Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, a mandolin [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 8:56am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • See Ya, Dan…

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    I’m so sad to hear this morning that singer/songwriter and my fellow longtime Hendersonvillian, Dan Seals has died.   I first remember Dan as part of England Dan and John Ford Coley.  This song was HUGE when I was a kid.  I still love it and it’s on my Ipod.    When I worked at the [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 9:01am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Happy Hump Day

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    Just trying to get us through the week, ’specially Holly! I’m brain-dead from training.  I have several things I’m planning on blogging about, but, can’t think straight so until then, feast yer ears on Neko Case. [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 8:34am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • FGF: Yodel-ay-heeeeeeee

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    I’m back to where I look forward to Fridays and it sho do feel good. I hope you feel good this Friday. Humor me here…I LOVE this song.  I can’t help it.  It’s on my Ipod with the incomparable Mary Martin rendering it, but, alas…no You Tube video could I find of [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 12:21am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Natasha Richardson

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    I was hoping and praying that we would follow Natasha Richardson’s miraculous recovery from her head injury on a ski slope in Canada. I was hoping that maybe the lack of details on her condition this morning meant that it wasn’t as bad as I was thinking. I mean, beautiful [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 1:57am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • ‘Tis Like A Morning Spring

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all! I love me a good, Irish Tenor. Dennis Morgan could flat bring it. [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 9:32am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Everywhere

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    Because my head and chest are so fulla gunk, I don’t have nothing heavy to blog about so I’ll give you a snappy little gospel tune this Sunday morning courtesy of Rosie Rozell and the Searchers. That’s fine stuff, now… [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 9:40am EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • FGF-A Crow To Pick

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    I know it’s Friday and that whole “Feel Good” thing but I have got to answer my pal Murrey who called and left a message wanting some commentary on the brilliant move by those Corporate Tools/Suits/Pinheads/Weasels/Or Whatever Favorite Adjective You Might Have That Would Insult Somebody, over WSM’s decision to ”relieve” Keith [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 11:56pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • The Economy and Stuff

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    As I’ve been sitting in Training this week with 9 other people, most of whom have been victims of layoffs, most of us struggling to survive and doing what we can to tread water, as well as my own experience the last three months as a single woman trying to [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 11:16pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Dogs, Crud and Work

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    I have not been any sorta sick in over 2 years.  None at all.  I was home for three months and had some sinus stuff but sickly?  No.  I started getting the sore throat last night.  I feel like crap today.  Third day on the New Gig, I’ve got some sorta [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Barbara Jean’s Ghost

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    My mother, in her advancing age, continues to shock the heck outta me.  When she shacked up (briefly, before she and her late husband Charles married) and had wine in her fridge?  I sorta went “Do what?”  But that didn’t make me go all Wile E. Coyote like this conversation I [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 10:22pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • I Kinda Liked This Monday…

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    I did something today I haven’t done in three months…I got up and went to work! I was a happy camper to have somewhere to go today. I did go off and forget to take my ADD medicine though and other than a headache, luckily, it didn’t affect me too [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 10:48pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Hank Locklin

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    Country Music has lost a dandy with the passing of Hank Locklin.  He’s one of the few from that era and on that level, it is sad, but, my gosh….91 years of living and up until fairly recently, Hank was active.  What a funny little man who sang some classics…..Please [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 6:11pm EDT
    by sistasmiff

  • Some People Drink Champagne…

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    This is what I dreamed last night. I don’t know what it means, but, it was odd.  Just thought I’d share… I’m at the soccer fields in Hendersonville.  Tara hasn’t played soccer in several years and she is present in this dream and is about 10 years old.  I don’t know [...]
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    Posted: March 07, 2009, 3:21pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Today Is Tuesday

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    Today is Tuesday, you know what that means…we’re gonna sing a Tuesday song! I wanted to be a Mouseketeer SOOO bad at one point. I’m not talking 70’s Mouseketeers or Justin Timberlake Mouseketeer….I wanted to be one with Karen and Cubby, Annette, Tommy, Cheryl, Jimmie, Bobby and Cissy….no wait…Cissy was Bobby’s [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 10:17pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Sun Shine On Me

    I can’t help it.  Sunrises are one of my favorite things in the world. And sunrises are great, too, when the light reflects on the wall… [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 7:06am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • This Is Wrong

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    Hey Mister…yes you.  The guy who was on the treadmill next to me at the Y about an hour ago.  You ran 5+ miles while I was on the Elliptical/StairStepper/New sorta contraption that I really like…. Anyway, you looked the kinda guy that was probably raised right.  You probably have a [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2009, 4:40pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • FGF-Cornbread and Butterbeans

    Friday again?  That means we have to feel good.  Oh kids….you are gonna feel good after this. I am in love.  Don’t get all excited now.  There’s not a new feller in my world or nothing like that.  But I have done gone and fallen in love with the Carolina Chocolate [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 12:04pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • I Think They Miss Me

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    Late yesterday afternoon, there was a knock on my door.  I was thinking that maybe it was the X with #2.   Tara was coming over to my Cross-The-Way-Neighbor’s to do something and I figured he was bringing the boy by.  I opened the door and it was Tara.  She has been sickly [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 7:47am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Babies and Psychos

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    I am so disturbed by this story that that crazy nutjob girl in California who has all those kids has been offered to star in a porn movie.  To the tune of one million dollahs.  I have to let that fall on me for a moment…..falling….falling…..falling….. It just won’t settle on me.  I’m [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 12:04pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • B-O-R-E-D

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    While I wait for the final confirmation of whether I am officially hired (assuming no illicit drugs show up in my test, ya know) I don’t ever remember being as bored as I am now. Because of the whole “Unemployment” status, I can’t be running around lunching, shopping and what-not everyday. [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 12:04pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Lovin’ The Louvins

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    After that startling revelation yesterday about the state of Kenny Chesney’s bald head, I figured a Tuesday with a little bit of Louvin wouldn’t hurt nobody’s feelings any.     Not a ton of live, Louvin Brothers footage out there, which is quite sad.  The good news is that the influence of the [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 8:15am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Phone The Neighbors, Wake The Kids…

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    It must be a really slow newsday today.  Why?  Because Channel 4’s TOP newstory this afternoon is the breaking story that Kenny Chesney is comfortable with being bald.  Well, praise the Lord and pass the Afro Sheen.  I’m sure the billionty other bald fellers will feel a WHOLE lot better [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 2:37pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Oscar Babblings

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    People from India are not Americans, but, I suppose they are natives of some sort.  The question is, is it “proper” to call them “Indians?”  Or will the PC Poo-leece come after me?   (Not that I care but you know…) My boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel brought up a really good point last [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 6:38am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • RIP-Socks

    Socks the cat has done gone to Glow-ry. They say Socks was about 19 or 20 years old.  That’s a lotta lives.  I can’t believe the Clinton’s didn’t take Socks with them to New York.  They took Buddy.  What’s up with that? Socks looks a lot like my former cat, Crystal (whom [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2009, 12:36pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Gimme A G, A Bouncy G

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    It’s Friday so let’s get our Feel Good on, shall we? Today’s entry is about 8 minutes long, however, if you don’t have 8 minutes, skip over to the 5:41 mark and just soak up the goodness of an audience member from Carol Burnett’s show singing (quite well). This is fo’ [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 11:12pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • An Anniversary

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    It dawned on me a little bit ago that it has been 17 years today since I last saw my father.  I had turned 23 the week before he died.  At that point, he was at home with Hospice care and he was sorta in another place.  He was totally conscious [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 12:52pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • The One Where I Get All Slap Happy

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    I don’t know what my problem is but for the last twelve hours I have been in total and complete Giggle Box mode.    First, my friend, Mike was telling me some HYSTERICAL stories last night via the Facebook, I mean just one after the other.  I wish I could tell them [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 11:09am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Whaddup?

    I don’t know for 100% sure yet, but, I think my Unemployment Season will soon be ending. That is, if I can pass that dang drug test and if nothing “shady” pops up on my background check. Ironic that Amber was talking about things like background checks the other day and [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 11:01pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • I Know You Are But What Am I

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    I think I know who mighta stolen Lance Armstrong’s bike… [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 7:54am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Blown Away

    Number of comments: 6
    So I was looking for some more pictures of the WSM Radio tower. (Guess why?) I stumbled across the website of a guy I went to elementary, junior high and part of high school with. We were in the same 5th grade class, actually. Anyway….nobody told me Eric Shiveley became a [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 12:53pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Big Ol’ Hearts Daincin’ In Our Eyes

    Since it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow, I want to dedicate my Feel Good Friday submission to all those happy couples out there. What better way to do it than with John Prine and Iris Dement singing “In Spite of Ourselves.” It’s a very warm, tender song…..heh heh. Hilarious. [...][...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 9:38am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Random Thursday Babbling

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    Howdy…. So I had a second interview today.  I want to tell something funny about it but I’m scared to.  I’ll tell it later.  Or email me or something and I’ll tell you.  HI-larious. Lord help us all…I have discovered Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease videos on OnDemand.   That is some good exercising.  I [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 11:19pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Miz Collie and the Dixie Daince Kings

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    Somebody had left a comment on my Brentwood post from a long time ago and it reminded me that I had something scanned from old Brentwood that’s particularly interesting… In this picture….the guy in the red jacket is one Burt Reynolds.  The place is the OLD OLD Concord Store on the [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 8:00am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Ovah and Ovah

    Number of comments: 3
    I know you’re sitting there wondering “Reckon what the number one song in the nation was the day Miz Collie was born?”   Wonder no more….Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells. [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 9:52pm EST
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  • Lawdy

    Number of comments: 6
    I know I post this picture every year on my birthday but I just love it. This was the morning of February 10, 1969, in Cypress, CA.  That’s my Aunt Junie with the tall hair, my 2 year old sister and my Mom in the Hounds Tooth coat.  That would be [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 9:58am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • More From Weekend…

    More stuff from the Weekend Festivities of Celebratin’, Viztin and What Not… Cherry liked my mask that Lisa gave me.  I think Bryan kinda dug it, too! This is my sister and Yers Truly with Stacy.  Stacy lived next door to us when we were kids and was kinda like a little [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 11:49am EST
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  • Banged

    Number of comments: 3
    Fun, fun, fun… Here we have Tina, Scott, Jeremy, Juliana and Ron.  I love these peoples.  And I love the Big Bang.  And I love that I’m almost 40. And I love Long Island Teas.  I actually have not had one of those things since about 1999.  Remind me to [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 1:13am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Lunch Date

    Number of comments: 2
    I had a wildhair to go have lunch with #2 today and I’m glad I did.  He didn’t know I was coming.   #2 has reached the age where it is very much NOT ok for me to show him any sorta display of affection in public.  I didn’t think he’d ever [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 4:18pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • FGF-Temptation

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    Feel Good Friday is here. Dig if you will Diana Krall’s tantalyzing version of Tom Waits’ “Temptation.” Lawdy. Makes me want to have sex or something. [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 9:48am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Four Chords and the Truth

    Number of comments: 2
    This is great. This is no lie. Until I watched this video a few minutes ago, I did not know that the line in Toto’s Africa  went like this: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you… I don’t know what I thought it said, but, it wasn’t that. I knew the [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Together Again

    Number of comments: 2
    Just heard that the great steel guitarist, Tom Brumley, died in San Antonio after a heart attack. Tom was part of Buck Owens’ legendary Buckaroos during their heyday and played that amazing steel on all those wonderful hits and was one of the most influential amongst the steet guitar crowd.    The [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 7:46pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Sunshine….Makes Me High

    God outdid Himself this morning.  Glad I didn’t miss it. [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 11:19am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • A Plethora of Random Pontifications

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    The Countdown to 40 officially kicked off today and I can’t believe I had my camera and didn’t take a single picture.  My mind is going. We are T minus 6 days and counting …..the festivities kicked off with lunch with my friends Tara, Kathy and Melissa.  The Forty-Paloooza continues Saturday evening [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 11:48pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Stoppit

    Number of comments: 8
    Michael Phelps…leave him alone.  He’s a kid.  I’m not saying that I think smokin’ doobies is a good idea but it idn’t like he was high when he won all those gold medals.   Last I heard, pot isn’t a perfmorance enhancing drug, is it? Whoever sold that picture to the tabloids [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 10:09am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Glory Days

    Number of comments: 1
    It’s pretty geeky if you take a picture of a tv screen, but, when its one of those screens that’s like a movie theater and you just happen to catch the opening of the Halftime show of the Super Bowl and it’s Bruce and Clarence and you get it looking [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 4:41am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Feel Good Friday- Make ‘Em Laugh

    I have been in something of a drug induced fog the last couple days on what my Former Mother in Law calls “Michael English Pills”. Dadgum. It’s no wonder people write fake perscriptions for those things.  It’s not so much that they make you feel good, they just make you [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 10:48am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Roots

    Number of comments: 2
    So, I’m laying there in the Endodontist’s chair, replete with as much Novacaine as one can give a person, all these things on my face, propping my mouth open and what not; all sorts of crap flying whilst the handsome, young Endo does his thing (I bet he’s not even [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 1:07pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Pulp Non-Fiction

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    I’m taking the scenic route through the Root Canal tomorrow morning.  I’ve had one before.  I’ll be glad to have it done cause it makes me nervous having a bum tooth.  I don’t remember the whole Pulp Removal being painful, contrary to what people make it to be.  Then again, [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 8:58pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Melancholy Monday

    Number of comments: 3
    Alert the media…I have read a book. Somebody encouraged me to read The Shack and oh mah gawsh. Loved it. Read it.  It’s unbelievably wonderful.  If you have questions in your mind about why God allows suffering and other unpleasant things…just read it.  Even if you are non-believing in a [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 10:21am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Livin’, Laughin’, Lovin’…

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    Regarding the Facebook craze of late, I often hear people say, mostly in a condescending tone, “I don’t have time for that.”    That’s fine but you know what, I’m grateful for Facebook cause I’ve been able to re-connect with some people that I have known longer than anybody, just about, [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 9:09am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • You Oughta Been There

    Number of comments: 2
    Dig if you will….Does it get much better than the Nashville Bluegrass Band with the Fairfield Four?  Let me think…..NO! And that, Boys and Girls, is your Feel Good Friday.        [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 9:34am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Good Advice

    Number of comments: 1
    How do… What’s new?  I’m still job hunting but did discover my resume needed major tweakin’ so that’s how I’m spending my Thursday evening. You know, I faincy myself as a writer of sorts, but, this resume writing thang…it’s a whole nutha bird.  It makes me want to yank each hair out [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 5:29pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Happy Inaugural, Y’all

    Number of comments: 3
      It is known and understood that I am the least political of the Blogging crowd.  (Busy Mom and I may tie on this) I don’t give a rats ass about politics.  I have my views on things, but, it is rare that I have any sort of inclination to get [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 9:52pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • In Which I Am Very Vague

    Number of comments: 4
    You know how there are those occasions you are hit with a brutal reality that you knew was there, but, at the same time, it wasn’t an issue because it was never really brought up and you didn’t really think a whole lot about it because it was something you [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 5:32am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Feel Good Friday

    Number of comments: 4
    A little twist for the Feel Good Friday…. Things that make me feel good this Friday: In no particular order…. 1.  Insanely cold weather like we have right now. 2. Any movie that has Walter Matthau in it. (Watching The Fortune Cookie as I type on DVR) 3.  Some amazing family members, both near and [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 12:27am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • My Life In Pictures (Or Something Like That)

    Number of comments: 5
    Scanning goodness for your viewing pleasure… I would love to live life with the reckless abandon I had here…running around wearing my tights and a cool hat, not caring how ridiculous I look.  (There’s my Hot Aunt Lady in the background) I was well on my way to becoming the most famous [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 10:05am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • All I Wanna Do…

    Number of comments: 5
    The Crown episode of Friday? I was sorta a’feared that perhaps the poppage of the Crown had something to do with the warning the Dentist gave me about a year ago. He said then that #14 tooth needed to be “watched.” I asked him if it needed crowning or something [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 10:52pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Before His Time

    Number of comments: 1
    Butch Baldassari’s long, valiant fight with cancer ended today.  This is a huge loss for the entire music community in Nashville.  (Go to the link and read Butch’s bio.  Incredible career) As horrible as it’s been watching Butch’s struggle with brain cancer this last couple years, it has been really wonderful [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 9:35pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • That’s Hot

    Number of comments: 5
    Internets, meet my crown.  Crown, meet the Internets.  The Crown wanted to “pop” out and say howdy so there it is.  Vaseline IS a wondrous thing for holding crowns in place til the dentist opens on Monday.        [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Shake It Down-FGF

    Number of comments: 3
    Feelin’ good on a Friday with a blast from the proverbial past with The Commodores. Lionel Richie DID have a great afro, didn’t he? You know how some songs make you think of certain people? This one always makes me think of Mitch.  I can just see the teenaged Mitch, sitting in [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 7:54am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • When I’m 84

    Number of comments: 6
    I’m puttering around my picture files on my computer and I came across this picture of my Aunt Lady.   I hope I can look a teensy bit as good as she does when I’m 84.            [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 10:41pm EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Smiling At Me

    After how many days of rain and clouds, I was pretty glad to see this between my blinds when I opened my eyes this morning:        [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 9:27am EST
    by sistasmiff

  • Becomes Final Today

    Number of comments: 10
    This is not a celebratory post.  This is just fact of what today is. I’m not sad, but, I am also not jumping up and down happy neither. I am grateful that I can sit here and tell you that Terry and I are dealing with each other very well. Our [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2009, 1:47am EST
    by sistasmiff
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