Tag: humor
member name: Gisela S.
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June 27, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, while playing "airplane" with my grandson (now a hefty 23 pound 11 month old) I experienced what can only be classified as a life-changing event. My body decided . . .
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July 30, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
Yesterday was a bit of an anomaly for me. You see, I had it all to myself....
Fred, Dani and Alex left at 6 am for a Phoenix - San Bernardino - Phoenix turn around trip in order to get my . . .
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April 07, 2006 10:28 AM EDT --
Perhaps I was Lucrezia Borgia in a past life? Only the karma of one seriously DEPRAVED could have wrought the week I'm finishing....
Monday started off innocently enough. I bought . . .
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April 18, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
Like many women, I suffer from "poor body image." I've learned to accept my middle aged upper arms, 4 foot eleven and a half inch tall frame, and feet that I'm sure somehow link . . .
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April 30, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
1. I was born dead. When my heart stopped beating during delivery, they knocked my mom out, removed me with forceps and spent 2 minutes reviving me. The jury is still out as to if there . . .
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May 08, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
Sunday May 7th - 9:12 PM
"Mom?"
"Yeah sweetie, what is it?"
"We have to talk."
"Hmmm?"
"Stop typing Mom..... Mom....MOM!!"
"Yes? I'm . . .
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February 25, 2007 08:33 PM EST --
All last week, I knew she was out there, waiting for someone - anyone - to find a place where she could be put to good use again. Other than adjusting the sheets and blankets that we'd draped over . . .
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April 17, 2006 09:25 PM EDT --
For your consideration.....A Belated Gathering Thunder
I promised my friend Mandi G. that I would submit an article for her two words "Gathering Thunder." I try to ALWAYS keep my promises...but . . .
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April 25, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
Sixteen years ago today, I awoke at 2:45 am from a sound sleep to a ruptured amniotic surprise. An hour and a half, and some serious hard work later, I was handed a small bundle.
Who . . .
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March 23, 2006 02:11 PM EST --
I have been a parent for over two decades. For the majority of that time I was working outside the home, and I admit, placed dutiful meal planning rather low on the totem pole of my priorities.
Inevitably, . . .
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May 27, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
It was supposed to be a nice quiet morning of Gathering. I'd been away in the real world, and all I wanted to do was to catch up a bit on what had been happening over the past couple of weeks. . . .
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June 29, 2006 03:15 PM EDT --
It arrived yesterday with little fanfare. In fact, it very nearly DIDN'T make it across the livingroom. Good thing my eye-hand coordination was actually functional when Fred casually lobbed . . .
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June 16, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
I was thrilled when Gather first asked if I'd be willing to test a few "brain training" games offered by Nintendo and then to write about my experiences. Like many others with a family . . .
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June 28, 2006 05:14 PM EDT --
The lobby of the Hilton Waikoloa greeted us with smiling "Alohas," a chandelier just dripping with crystal and open air architecture. Fred went over to check in, and I contented myself . . .
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March 27, 2008 08:30 AM EDT --
Apparently, photographs to chronicle and commemorate one's surgical procedures are standard fare these days. Oh yes, printed on a glossy sheet of photo paper, my ovaries and abdominal cavity . . .
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January 01, 2007 11:55 PM EST --
At the end of 2005, I swore off all resolutions for the rest of my life. Faced with my 40th birthday, my daughter's announcement that I was SURPRISE going to be a grandmother, the last semesters of . . .
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February 06, 2006 12:18 PM EST --
Some families are renown for their dedication to the preservation of artisan skills – wine making, the crafting of fine musical instruments, or perhaps simply a sour dough starter that has been . . .
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January 18, 2009 04:02 PM EST --
I realized earlier today that like so many other things I've recently come to take for granted, expecting my husband to come to my rescue in the midst of a household emergency is probably NOT something . . .
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June 01, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
"I just know I'm forgetting something...."
"There's a hole in your pants."
"I know dear."
"Well, aren't you going to change them?"
"No dear." . . .
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June 06, 2006 09:26 AM EDT --
As much as I love to fly, I was more than ready to stretch my legs by the time our six hour plane ride to Kona neared its close. The days leading up to our departure had been filled with a million . . .
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