Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2010
I miss my mind the most…Mark Twain
Yes, it’s finally happened. Actually, two things have happened concurrently. One is the loss of mind, and the other the loss of vision, which I’ve determined go hand in hand.
I already have a wide array of glasses and contact lenses:
Despite all the lens power in my [...]
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The cold Northeast brings dry skin in the winter, but when I woke up this morning and got ready to shower, and noticed I had extremely dry shoulders. WHAT THE HECK?
Use this stuff. Bliss Salt Scrub. You will feel Scandinavian squeaky fresh after using it.
Reading on the Kindle
From Amazon: "Holy cow, this book should be a huge success. It has everything: nuns, conjoined twins, civil war, and medicine — I was thinking that if Vikram Seth and Oliver Sacks were to collaborate on a four-hour episode of Grey’s Anatomy set in Africa, they could only hope to come up with something this moving and entertaining…. A marvelous novel!” Mark Salzman
I'm on board with this, I love it when nuns are involved in a story line.
Reading in Hardcover
From Amazon: "In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.
Since my husband is from Coos County aka, lumberjack country, I thought this would give me a little more insight to that crazy place he is from. Sounds like a trip down memory lane.
Parker's Beef Stew from Ina Garten. That's right, it calls for one whole bottle of wine, baby.
I’d like to watch that crab show, Mom.
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