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The 100th post….

Posted in 100 days, Blogging, Children, Elementary School, Family, Kids, Personal, Planetjan, Sons, The Narcissist, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Wow! 
About 13 months ago I started blogging. 
I now have 100 posts.  Woo Hoo!  Throw some confetti and cut the cake. 
When my boys were in elementary school the 100th day of school was a BIG deal. 
Their assignment was to count out 100 pennies, 100 fishy crackers, 100 crayons…you get the idea, and bring their 100 items [...]

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Boz Scaggs –

Posted in Boz Scaggs, Music, YouTube, tagged , , on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last month, Hubby saw that Boz Scaggs was performing in SO CAL with James Ingram. 
I have never seen Boz live and I really wanted to go. 
I have a secret confession – I have a favorite Boz CD that I listen to while balancing the checkbook. 
It makes the task tolerable.   
The tickets for [...]

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Don’t forget the sunscreen!

Posted in Daily Life, Family, Health, Kids, Life, Parenting, Skin cancer, Sun, Sunscreen, Travel, Travel with children, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Since we planned a road trip for late July, we knew that we had to purchase & pack the sunscreen. 
It was very hot and we managed to get tanned through the windshield. 
Next time – Think tinted windows.  
I had forgotten that Yosemite gets that hot in July and August.  We camped there for two weeks, one [...]

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Clustr Maps: III – Wake Up & See The Glory

Posted in AAA, Arizona, Cafe Tusayan, Faith, Family, Geography, Grand Canyon, Kids, Life, National Parks, Road Trip, Steven Curtis Chapman, The Red Feather Lodge, Travel with children, Tweens, YouTube, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

  
Hubby’s first view of the Grand Canyon left him slack-jawed for about ten minutes.
Sam couldn’t believe how far down it was to the floor of the canyon, and I didn’t remember how awe- inspiringly-beautiful it was.
(Is that a word? It should be.)   
The Nintendo DS stayed in the car. 
The storm that had [...]

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Birthday Cards for Narcissists

Posted in Dr. Sam Vankin, Health, Holidays, NPD, Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissists, Psychology, The Narcissist, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I think that Hallmark is missing out on a HUGE profit market here.
A whole line of greeting cards for narcissists. 
After I thought about it though, I remembered that the N didn’t want any celebration for his birthday. 
Celebrating a birthday or holiday made the N less than superior to the rest of us humans.  Seriously. 
Read Vanikin’s [...]

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Clustr Maps II – Make Reservations!

Posted in AAA, Arizona, Children, Daily Life, Family, Geography, Humor, Kids, Life, National Parks, Road Trip, The Red Feather Lodge, Travel, Travel with children, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Years ago we traveled like we were hippies from the 60’s….a VW vanagon….wherever the road took us….wherever the wind blew…with no hotel reservations.  We weren’t total rebels…we got maps from AAA. 
Then. 
We had kids.  
It’s hard to be “free as a bird” with one in diapers, one barely potty trained and one who loved to flush toilets. 
But, we were thrilled to [...]

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Get Your Kicks on Route 66

Posted in AAA, Clustr Maps, Family, Geography, Kids, Life, Music, Nat King Cole, Road Trip, Route 66, Travel, Travel with children, Tweens, YouTube, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

During one of those cross country trips when I was a tween one of the 8 tracks that we played a lot was an Nat King Cole album. 
There was one song in particular that popped back in my head during our recent whirlwind tour of National Parks.  When we were in Williams, Arizona, I saw this [...]

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