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I went shopping today. Yes, shopping for clothes and shoes. It’s something I am forced to do almost every year whether I think I need to or not. That’s because I’m meeting my sister soon for a trip and I’m afraid to have her see me in my last year’s summer clothes.

I managed to score capri pants, long pants and a couple of tops as well as a pair of brown sandals. I felt very proud. I was even getting the pants professionally hemmed. For me, that’s the equivalent of winning the Triple Crown in one day.

So I

I don’t know how it happened, but I just got a very unexpected $400 check from my mortgage company for an overpayment of escrow. AND…. I got notice that my monthly mortgage payment is reduced for next year by $37/month. I don’t know why. I don’t know how. And I honestly don’t care. I just know I now have what I consider as TOTALLY free money to spend when I go to Vegas. Yea!

(And yes, I can feel my parents and grandparents staring at me in disbelief that I am not immediately banking this for the future. But they

Here in my home, my two dogs receive the best I can offer to give them a long and healthy life. For Blue, that means an expensive mix of wet and dry diabetic dog food. For Blondie it means organic, holistic, senior food that has antioxidants, chondroitin, glucoasmine, veggies and other things to preserve her health and teeth. Their “snacks” are organic, low calorie and meant for senior dogs. They get their medicine on time every day and visit the vet so often I’m pretty sure I’m single-handedly putting his kids through Harvard. So what does all this get me?

In last Sunday’s paper, there was a blurb about a man who pled guilty to beating his wife and was sentenced to six months in jail. According to the article, the wife stabbed the husband in the leg with a steak knife when he went for her and he responded by choking her until she passed out and kicking her repeatedly. At court the day of the plea, the husband’s attorney said the incident was “a loud wake up call” for the couple to repair their relationship.

And all I could think was, “Really? You didn’t see any signs that

Yay! We win. America is number one!

No, this is not about finally passing some modicum of health care reform. And it’s not about putting the first man on the moon or winning the cold war or developing a cheese product that comes out of an aerosol can. Well, actually it is a little about a combination of winning the cold war and aerosol cheese.

A recent report out of China states that one out of every ten Chinese now has type 2 diabetes.  Yep, China has joined the big boys – pun fully intended – and caught up with

The Texas school board bans Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote our constitution, from their textbooks because he is apparently too liberal for them. And they are proud of this. They are proud of their ignorance.

Now I understand George Bush. He’s the perfect Texan…. proud of his ignorance.

For all you Texans out there who this angers, change your school board and put Thomas Jefferson back in your American history books and then I’ll apologize.

I bought strawberry bulbs? seeds? plants? I don’t know. They’re in a plastic bag but the picture shows strawberries. I bought them to plant because it was looking so much like spring that I couldn’t resist. The next day, it snowed.

Thanks a lot, Mother Nature.