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That is soooo much better re-naming Frosty a "snow sculpture". Ha ha ha!
It won't hurt near as bad when running the car over "it".
Does the snow sculpture have a black top hat, a corncob pipe, and a button nose?
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So I thought I would compromise by shovelling just 1/2 the driveway and using the pile of snow to make a snow sculpture. Yeah, I got tired and it's still just a pile of snow.
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Try not to build the snowman in the driveway. You'd have to run over Frosty getting the car out.
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Build a slushy snowman, just for fun, fresh air, exercise.

And let it melt. The first light snow always melts. Doesn't it? lol

We had a small amount of snow yesterday morning here. Today it's all gone.
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We've had a few inches of heavy wet snow - should I shovel the drive, build a snowman or just hibernate in the hope it melts soon?
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Sorry Send and everyone who near these fires. I have family there too. And family fighting them as well.
You are in my prayers. It is such a devastating thing these fires. I use to live there too and it was horrible practically year after year of fires.
Anyway, I am very sorry for what you all are experiencing.
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About the fires, not sure what the solutions should be to avoid destructive fires like these in the future, but I think a couple of reasons why so many homes are destroyed is because more and more houses are being built closer and closer to where the woods are, and on top of that, the trees are not being cleared around those housing developments. With the drought, those trees get dry and are just waiting to burn.

So sad for those who lost their loved ones, and whose homes are destroyed, Being homeless around the holidays is horrible. And the homeless pets, the dead wild animals...it's just very sad.

California really needs a plan to avoid wild fires like these from happening again. If not, more people will die, more houses will be destroyed, more dead animals and pets.
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Thank you Mally.
And MsMadge, for the coffee and donut!
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Praying my head off for you, Send, and others, plus animals, in California fire areas!
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In honor of caregiver appreciation day, a big thank you to everyone on A/C

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Glad to have this thread as a refuge......friends are here.
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Thank you Luckylu....
Elderly loved one was just hospitalized.
When asked if he wanted CPR, he said yes.
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Your'e right Send...Those fires are horrible and hurting so many people and animals.Many have died and some are missing.The fires are only 25 % contained I heard,so far and there's so much bad stuff in the air,it makes it hard to breathe.I'm so sorry about the fires and especially that they are close to you.
I wish I could send some of this snow and cold that way,somehow.
Sorry you had such a rough night too.
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Truth is.....reduced to tears just googling the air quality in the general area.
There are so many people in trouble, lives and homes threatened from the fires.

Last night was hard to get to sleep, with PTSD symptoms, all over the place with anxiety, hypervigilance.

Once acknowledged, turning off any news, trying to be positive, and upbeat.

Not good enough.....
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gOOD mORNING !
sUNNY AND CLEAR, IN PARTS OF sOcAL.

cWILLIE, Send that stuff here for the folks who need it, yes, they would so appreciate your gesture.

Hey! a shout out to Canada, and Gershun.
Did you open your blinds/curtains this morning?
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When I opened my blinds this morning - aaaahhh! It's a Winter Wonderland!! But it's NOVEMBER - and not even late in the month! I can't even remember when I've seen the sun for more than a few hours, I wish I could send all this cloudy rainy damp cold and snowy weather off to the USA west coast where it would be appreciated.
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In the quiet moments of the day, Cwillie
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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.
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I have budgeted for myself to purchase 1 audible version to all the ebooks that I purchased from my favorite authors in Amazon. I usually scroll through the kindle and purchase the next audible to the series. 2 days ago, I could have sworn I purchased this audible. Instead of turning on the laptop and checking my Word list, I purchased it for $12.99.

Since I was in my 20's, in actual paper notebooks, I list every single book I purchased - whether on island at flea markets or online. On the laptop, I have a Word File on all the books I purchased- based on genre and in alphabetical orders of authors. You can imagine I have a long list of ebooks.

It was bugging me that I bought that audible when I could have sworn I already purchased it. Yep, this morning, I checked my list. Including the recent purchase of the audible, I have MISSING in both my Amazon account and in my Kindle - 4 audibles (books 3, 4, 5 and 6.) Her series ended on book 10. I'm really pissed off. If I wasn't so OCD about listing all the books I've purchased, I would have just thought I THOUGHT I purchased those audibles but didn't. Now, I have to backtrack and look through my notebook to find the dates those audibles were purchased, then dig up my bank statements (which I still have since time beginning and never got around to getting rid of) to show I purchased it. Then I will contact Amazon to get reimbursed for purchasing twice that audible and to re-instate my audibles for books 4, 5 and 6...

I wondered why my audible books in Kindle looked so few!!! Now I have to backtrack. This time, I'm going to open a Word file for all the audibles I purchased. D*rn it!!!
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CWillie,
You have the lines of Hamlet down pretty good! However, concerning you, I am sure there is a beautiful blooming garden in your future.

HAMLET
Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
130Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
135Fie on ’t, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this.
But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was to this
140Hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother
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Agree.

It's hard enough to be a maverick when you win approval and acknowledgement. To go on doing it for two decades in the teeth of jeering hostility (and I can't offhand think of *any* commentators, not even in fashion, who are b*tchier and more snobbish and more up themselves than the British music press) and never doubt yourself and never stop growing creatively - amazing man. Just amazing.

Bowie did, too, and for longer; but then they all adored him. He could do no wrong. Freddie could do nothing right. They were utter jackals to him, and now look at them all going on about his genius. They make me sick.
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Freddie Mercury, if you ask me was one of the most entertaining musical front men of his time. I think old Freddie would have had pointed opinions about who played him. I wonder if they passed this by the surviving members of the band before they decided on who would play him.

I thought I might like this movie but then I think it would be difficult to encapsulate Freddie in any shape or form. They broke the mold after he was born.

I haven't been to see a decent movie in years. I've become very picky about what I'll waste two hours watching. One t.v. series I have really enjoyed the last two years is "A Handmaid's Tale" Country, I don't know if you get this one or not but I'd give it a view if you can get your hands on it. Season three will be starting soon so you have a chance to binge watch the first two seasons.
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Hmmmmmmm.

If I go to the cinema at four o' clock I can see Bohemian Rhapsody.

I have just watched the trailer.

I am not quite convinced that even two hours of Queen tracks will make up for the excruciating frustrations of watching someone attempt to play Freddie Mercury who is not Freddie Mercury.

But it's also got Tom Hollander in it. And he is one of those actors I will happily watch in absolutely anything.

I must quickly add that Tom Hollander is not attempting to play Freddie Mercury. That idea is so bizarre and unthinkable that not even Freddie Mercury would entertain it.
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Force yourself to go daily to a matinee to escape the doldrums of 4:00 in the afternoon. Take notes on how people in the movies are living.
Go until you no longer feel as if waiting to die. Go until you are sure you cannot see another movie. Nevermind the expense-this will be so much less than therapy.
You are only hesitating to live.......
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Country, I think you should say the hell with vomiting quietly..........let it spew out of you full force. Make as much noise as possible.

My Mom had a company help her once to move some junk. They were named "Two Small men with Big Hearts" My Mom said they should have renamed it "Two Fat Idiot's with Bad Attitudes" LOL
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One of the best-ever renditions of that soliloquy is at the end of "Withnail & I"! Which I can heartily recommend if you're in the right sort of disaffected mood for it and can get it on DVD - only I'd never claim it exactly cheers you up. It's more for your inner rebellious teenager. Plus it's got a very young Paul McGann in it :)

Don't watch it on a full stomach.
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CM, you captured my feelings very well. I keep thinking "how stale, flat weary and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world...." or however those lines go (it's been a long, long time since I was forced to memorize them).
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I'm being haunted.

I looked out of the kitchen window. There's a van there with an organisation's name and the strapline "love people better".

The organisation is working with the church and the police to address offending behaviours. Through compassion and understanding, rather than blame and sanctions. More love, better results. See what they did there?! Clever, huh?!

I am going to go and vomit quietly in the garden now.
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CW, you've had, like, five minutes to adjust! Give yourself a chance!

After caregiving it is *incredibly* difficult to think of anything that merits your time. I can't go back to what I was doing before, I just can't. I've lost all patience with these absurd people and their pitiful conceits and their trivial demands...

As one account handler put it to me long ago: "it's a good thing you're not client-facing, isn't it?"

I couldn't think *what* she meant! But that was even before I'd lived with the insult that according to "the real world" (don't start me) my ability to craft straplines - things which I'd always loathed from the bottom of my heart anyway - was seventy times more valuable than my willingness (if not much ability) to comfort a dying woman.

And it's worse than it was. Over twenty five years ago I made up a pharmaceutical company called "Winsome & Hush - caring for you." It was supposed to be a joke. B*gger me if there aren't now encouraging little slogans over every spare inch of wall in the hospital - it's all I can do not to take a black permanent marker and go round the place correcting the misplaced apostrophes.

There goes my nervous tic again.

Could put horns and fangs on all the Chief Executive's 'big brother' posters. Or speech bubbles - "f*** 'em, they're only patients..!"

As I say. I really can't go back to my old life.

There's CCTV in every corridor, for a start.

At your crossroads, where were the other signposts pointing? And if those options now seem devoid of any interest or value, why do they? What are they lacking?
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Can you do some online courses during the winter months, cwillie?

art history, astronomy, 18th century lit, perhaps?

any home based business ideas ? eBay merchant ?

small batch, organic recipes

big sister to a foster kid ?
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