It's a ruff life! I swear, Angel's part lizard. First sign of the sun and she plops right down to soak it up. By the way, that's a Harley Girl shirt she's wearing. Just an FYI. She sits real pretty and patiently while I put it on her. Never thought that would happen! Maybe she likes the s
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02/18/2009
Years ago, I worked from home as a copywriter for an environmental company. They were hired to perform environmental impact reports on properties for sale to make sure no leaking underground storage tanks were located in the ground at any time or that the chemicals in the soil were within govern
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02/17/2009
While looking for a home for rent last year, my friend came across a nice home in a nice neighborhood. The rent was priced well below market value. There was a realtor's sign in the yard and the realtor was with a very big real estate company. The people moving out said that they were leaving
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02/16/2009
Football has its Super Bowl at the end of the season. NASCAR fans have it at the beginning of the season: Daytona 500! Matt Kenseth won the rain-shortened race, ending his dry spell (so to speak) of a winless last year. Congratulations, Matt! But the big question of the race (and the one that
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02/15/2009
I know I can't be the only NASCAR fan on Active Rain. It's just not possible. With Rainers in places like North Carolina, Indiana, Florida, etc., there's just no way I am the only one. On the biggest day of the year for any NASCAR fan (Daytona 500), I invite you all to join the new group I cre
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02/15/2009
If you love Italian food like I do, you are going to want to visit Moreno Valley's little gem of a restaurant, the Chicago Pasta House. This is a family-owned restaurant that began in Chicago back in 1974 with old family recipes from Italy. Eventually, the owners moved to California and brought
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02/14/2009
When I read Melanie Botting's blog (What She Really Wants for Valentine's Day), I agreed with everything she said except #8: Prepare a dinner and set the stage for ambiance- use a table cloth and candles. The dinner you cook will not matter as long as you don't order take out. Even Hamburger He
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02/13/2009
This is a word to the wise if ever I heard of one. Please read Mike's blog below. And they could have hacked my WordPress blog or most any of my other blogs. Have they hacked yours? Would you know? Here’s how to find out. Go to Google and enter “site:http://YOURSITENAME.com ” obviously ins
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02/13/2009
Yesterday afternoon, I had to go to a doctor's appointment. Nothing major. Just a routine follow-up on a hysterectomy I had five weeks ago. (Long, long story. If you want all the gory details, read here.) As any woman will tell you, a visit to the gynecologist is not a fun time in normal cir
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02/13/2009
I'm not pointing any fingers or anything, but I really, truly, deep in my heart of hearts believe that a man invented the idea of carpet in the bathroom. While the idea of stumbling into the bathroom in the dead of night in the middle of winter and keeping your feet warm with carpet instead of s
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02/12/2009
