Black Oak's Daughter

Christmas is done, and as Christmases go it was pretty wonderful for a lot of reasons.

Minime and her boyfrend were here for two and a half days. Her boyfriend, on Christmas Eve, upon her request, installed the faucet that’s been sitting new in the box in my bathroom for months now. The old faucet handles [...]

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Christmas Eve Eve started the celebrating here.  Minime and Mr Minime spent all day driving into town through the blizzards.  They showed up with Pizza once they got settled in a their hotel, so we ate together and then played some Dr Mario.
Last night went well too. It was the first dinner party that [...]

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Christmas this year is shaping up nicely.  Yesterday I spent the afternoon baking cookies with a couple of ladies from my extended family.
There is a part of my family that I’m not really related to, but we have spent nearly every Christmas and every other family thing together that I can remember.  See if you [...]

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I am an artist…What that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, “I know all about it. I’ve already found it it.” As far as I’m concerned, it means, “I am looking. I am hunting for it, I am deeply involved.”

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…has happened.  My living room is full of boxes. The manger scene is out, the Christmas village is set up, all the nicknacks are ready to be staged around the house. Most of my Santa collection is on the deacon’s bench. My table top little pre-lit tree is up, but the bigger one isn’t yet. [...]

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You’d think I’d learn, that when it rains in the morning and then it all freezes and there’s a couple of inches of snow over a couple of inches of ice all nicely frozen just in time for the commute the next morning, I really should just work from home.
Said commute is a bad time [...]

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A year ago today I had an operation that I needed to save my life.  I had no idea what would happen after the surgery. I was very focused on getting through it and not at all on what happened next.  When I was told that I had cancer, the immediate pressure was to get [...]

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I chose Wall-E for my prize.  I really do need a giggle lately.
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of my surgery.  It’s been a wild year. I think things are finally calming down a bit.
I jailbroke my iPhone today. There are a few features that I really like, and a few more that I have [...]

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I got an e-mail through the NaBloPoMo site from Eden (how cool is that? She’s an internet STAR and I’m just a wee little blogger, and she e-mailed me!)  Anyway, she invented and runs NaBloPoMo which just finished this year.
So today I got home late after 11 hours at work, had dinner with roomie, did [...]

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