This is what happens when we stay up to watch Saturday Night Live. We fall asleep during the last half hour and wake up right in the middle of a BRILLIANT infomercial about 80s music.JourneyBostonREO SpeedwagonHeartForeignerPat BenatarThe CarsThe PretendersWe hopped right on our 'puters and ordered us up some ballads. I've had them a week now and my vocal chords are RASPY from all the bellowing g
Weird Obsessions?
Yes, my name is Deborah and I love Sock Monkees.I love how they make both the butt and lips from the sock heel! How clever is that hmm?Look at this darling little lavender one. The old, sad looking one is Burt. I bought him at a church bazaar (yes it WAS bizarre) back in the mid 70s. He is very tired.I don't know why I'm posting about my love for the sock monkee. (I think I'm tired and wacky from

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daisies,
dish love,
obsessions
If I Knew How to Get There, I Wouldn't Have to Ask

I am an introverted extrovert.I never sit in the front, I hate going into a party alone, "networking" at an event gives me reason to drink. When I first began dating Pup and had to find him at a golf event and meet his gang of peeps I had what can only be described as a panic attack while getting ready.Yet, I'm the first one on the dance floor, I sing Karaoke, I can speak in front of a

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being fearless,
school
Please Don't Call on Me!

The SceneClassI am sitting, as my middle-class, Lutheran, upbringing would have it, near the back, on the end. Not too far back, not too far in the front.Instructor is lecturing, I am taking notes, I am understanding. Look how convincing I am! I even convince myself! Aaaaaaamaaaaaaziiiing!He pulls out something that suspiciously looks like a testing board. He keeps calling it a "pretest," but by

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being fearless,
confession,
school
They Said It Best Themselves

The Vikings' Super Bowl dream comes to a sloppy end as they fumble and stumble their way to an overtime loss in New OrleansRick AlonzoPioneer Press, St. Paul, MNThe Saints had taken a 28-21 lead after Percy Harvin fumbled in the fourth quarter. The home team converted that turnover into a Reggie Bush touchdown when a replay challenge showed the ball crossed the plane of the goal line with 12:39 l

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Bret Favre,
football,
Sundays
It's Sunday in the Jungle!
Poor Pup. He is a CPA and from the middle of January until April 15th he is one very busy Puppers working seven days a week, 14-17 hours per day. I am not fibbing.So I have to find things to entertain myself for for these months. I've started school, I planned a girl-trip to Vegas (yay!), I have lots of projects to keep me busy, movies with girlfriends, shopping with my kidlets. I really don't ne

Closet Sorting

I am an organizer. A picture leveler. A counter polisher. A floor swifferer. A cupboard neatener.My girls will indignantly tell you about sorting sessions we would have with their things when they were little. Oh they did not like that day! We would dump everything out, sort through it, throw the crap out, find missing pieces, make piles, put away.At the end of the session I loved going in their

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closet editing,
organizing
Overheard

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overheard
The Club Grunters

Lorenzo (DD2) and I headed with conviction over to the free weight part of our club last night where the grunters live.This part of the club scares the living hell out of me. It's full of over-muscled men and women that glance at softer versions of the humans they represent with pity and scorn (I could be overstating - ha!).Okay - but they do look at less muscled peeps with some sort of judging e

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living healthy,
observations
Vikings Country!

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Bret Favre,
football
Overheard

Overheard at a thrift store. Woman on her cell phone. She thought she was all alone.You heard me right. I tol' him, "I don' put up with that sheet. You cain't have an outside woman and espect me to just lay down and take it."Uh huh . . . uh huh . . . girl you KNOW I don't call no mens. I do the answering, he does the callin'.Love it!

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overheard
School

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being fearless,
school
The Closet Palette
I've been teased about this by my daughters. You look in my closet and all you see is black, gray, white, and about a million shades of beige. It sounds dreary, but sorpresa!, it isn't. It's what I gravitate to, it's my comfort-hunger. It doesn't feel boring to me. I could be delusional. (Don't you roll your eyes at me missy! Or mister.)I will refrain from using that PHRASE, (pop of color-arg) bu

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closet editing,
styling
Provocateurs

Stolenpro⋅vo⋅ca⋅teur /prəˌvɒkəˈtɜr, -ˈtʊər; Fr. prɔvɔkaˈtœr/ [pruh-vok-uh-tur, -toor; Fr. praw-vaw-ka-tœr]–noun, plural -teurs /-ˈtɜrz, -ˈtʊərz; Fr. -ˈtœr/ [-turz, -toorz; Fr. -tœr]1. a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.2. (italics) French. agent provocateur. Origin: 1915–20;Poke the BearBeat a Dead HorseShit StirrerMuck RakerDrama WhoreDevil's AdvocateIt ca

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inspiration
Over and Over and Over

My family and I were discussing our favorite movies and the movies we could watch over and over. Everyone has one. Pulp Fiction might be at the top of the list for me. This being one of my favorite scenes in the movie.Also, how hot was Bruce Willis in this movie? An arse like a round, hard apple . . . oh! I think I went to my happy place for a minute. Apologies . . .A few others thrown around tha

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Bruce Willis,
confession,
ideas,
John Travolta
You're Gonna Do Wha?

I had my first acupuncture appointment yesterday.I have an ongoing knee problem. Ripped my meniscus somehow after or during a fall while walking my doggy. Had knee surgery. Still have a knee problem. How frustrazione! Grr and arg.So, on advice from dear sis and BIL I went yesterday. I do not understand acupuncture. The darling acupuncturist was qi this and energy that and release objective. I'm g

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acupuncture
Hot Men Friday

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hot men friday,
Rod Stewart
Gym Dandy to the Rescue

So, I've been going to the club on a REGULAR basis for three weeks now. The resolutioners I spoke of are out in lovely abundance. I love each of their chubby butts. Including mine.I am puzzled a bit though dear readers (you're out there I know it!) - the peeps that are on the stationary bikes, what are they doing exactly? Already I've noticed a select group of the same people on the bikes that ar

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living healthy,
observations
Cooking with Style
Since I'm whole-hog into my wrecking ball I have been cooking. I've pulled out all my 3-ring notebooks that are stuffed with recipes. I've been going through all of them and editing. Have you ever pulled out some horrible recipe and thought to yourself, "WTF"? Why on earth would I ever want to make raisin custard pie? Shudder!Pupcake is not an adventurous eater. In fact he eats lik

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cooking
The Resolutioners

You know them. They crowd into your gym, hogging all the ellipticals, not following the rules, sitting their bare arses on the benches in the locker room (true - this happened to me).They eat and drink like mad the last week of the year then swear they will change now.They clean closets, clean their cars, clean their minds.I'm one. I never want to be one, but I am.As much as it is clic

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living healthy,
resolution solution