Friday, October 06, 2006

What not to do on a bad day

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Sat for my "portrait" for my church directory. Just the thing to do when you're feeling fat and pimply and just plain useless...
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Pick your Hepburn

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A website called Style Dash compares the two very different icons with the same last name. Apparently they're like the Beatles and Elv...

For she has got ... ANOTHER GUY

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Seems that the soon-to-be-ex Lady McCartney has a constant companion who makes sure she never gets lonely as she travels the world first cla...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

You've Got to Have Friends

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Or so sings Bette Midler. When this album first came out, back when I was in high school, I believed her. Today I'm not so sure. Last ni...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Not the matchup of my dreams, not tomorrow, at least

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Hong-Chih Kuo is a talented young man who is probably very good to his mother. But he is not Greg Maddux. Therefore, watching him pitch agai...

Scary stuff

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That which scares us is individual, personal, and hard to articulate because we don't like thinking about it, much less talking about it...

Instead of SEXY, how about ICKY?

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The current issue of US shows Patrick Dempsey looking positively McDreamy. All beautiful hair, dark and artful stubble and positively gorgeo...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Come to Mama

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Just heard from Zappos that my new Birkenstocks should arrive before the week ends. I love these shoes. As a matter of fact, these lovely bl...

Is it possible that I'm moving on?

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After almost three years and literally thousands of games, I find myself no longer drawn to Turbo 21 at Pogo.com. I don't know why, but ...

Shame on you, Rep. Foley

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I don't care if he says he's an alcoholic. Booze doesn't turn an otherwise morally upstanding citizen (gay or straight) into a p...

I love thinking of him, ca 1977

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When my best friend was 11 years old, he fell in love. With Farrah Fawcett from Charlie's Angels. Just as important as her TV show was ...
Monday, October 02, 2006

OOOH! This is gonna be fun!

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In just a few days, the Dodgers will fly to New York to face the Mets. And former Atlanta Brave (and special centerpiece of this blog) Greg ...

Sorry, but no

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I had a few minutes between buses yesterday and stopped at Kohl's. I picked up this Good Skin moisturizer and had nothing but high hopes...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

Damn you, Victoria Principal!

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Principal Secret is slowly but surely discontinuing its original spa products. This means that slowly but surely it will be harder and harde...

Now for something completely different

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Menopause. According to my doctor, I still have a way to go before I have to confront it. But I've been watching my oldest friend, just ...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

My favorite headline

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September 29, 2006 Pamela Anderson's nipples look depressed Read it for yourself: http://thesuperficial.com/2006/09/pamela_andersons_nip...

He did it, he did it, he did it!

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Two runs, three hits, seven innings. And now the Dodgers are in the play-offs. Nicely done! I love you, Greg Maddux. It's 9-6 Colorado a...

Come on, Professor …

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"Greg Maddux, who's pitched in 11 postseasons, can seal a spot for LA." So reads the headline on MLB.com. It's cloudy and ...

Sincere tribute or nasty slap? You decide.

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Sir Paul has dedicated his new album to his first wife Linda. This latest musical creation is an orchestral work in four movements called ...
Friday, September 29, 2006

What I'm doing instead

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I'm not: • Sorting my laundry • Paying my end o' the month bills • Wrapping my nephew's birthday presents • Making sense of all ...

I'm not good at this

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My best friend is off to Dallas right now as we speak. He's spending the weekend there to celebrate a family wedding, and he's flyin...

Digging for gold

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Seen on the el this morning: Young, upwardly mobile suburban mom, bringing baby girl and stroller downtown. Just about everything on both mo...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

I like Addison

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I do. Because she's so much less whiny and wussy than Meredith. (And perhaps because she's a redhead, like yours truly.) I hope that...

Stuff I care about, and stuff I don't

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When something captures my fancy I tend to read about/watch it obsessively. Lately that includes: The National League Wildcard Race: Please,...

Girl Crush … as seen in the NY Times …

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… meaning not "girl-on-girl," as seen in Girls Gone Wild infomercials.* During the summer of 2005, the NY Times wrote about how wo...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

About those headaches

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On Saturday, 9/16, I suffered from a headache that would have killed a lesser man. It was really brutal. Throbbing and unrelenting, it left ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

I love this stuff

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I'm watching The Thin Man . The original in the series. It's the 1930s, people were suffering, and yet this movie was successful eno...

"Yes. But Not With You."

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So read the tight, tight, tight t-shirt I saw on a very buxom woman on Michigan Avenue today. We could not only see her rack, her tummy roll...

Not me. Not yet, at least.

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Traitors! Traitors, all! I refer, of course, to the legions of Chicago pedestrians walking up and down State Street with white bags, adorned...

Strictly within Code

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More from my trip to Los Angeles … My best friend and I stayed up almost all night both nights. Gossiping, teasing, laughing and talking, ta...
Monday, September 25, 2006

How my home is different from a luxury hotel

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1) I have only two pillows on the solitary, full-sized bed in my bedroom. Not four pillows piled high on each of the queen-sized beds. 2) Wh...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

24 Hours from Now

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At this time tomorrow I will be on my way to Dodger Stadium to watch my beloved, future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux take the mound against the...

I'm Laurie. I'm 5.

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Here's a fun little time suck for you. You Are 5: The Investigator You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love l...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

Oh, but it hurt!

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Saturday afternoon I got a headache. A killer headache. Throbbing. Severe. Impossible to concentrate. Impossible to sleep. Impervious to ibu...

Quiet Desperation

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I spent a good part of Friday afternoon listening to the results of some client-sponsored consumer research on retirement and anticipated qu...