yes, another birthday in February . . . Happy birthday my daughter!!!

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Family.
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Who loves ya, baby?

Go on over there and wish her a happy, happy, won’t you?

And, you could also go here, and here, and here. Hahahaha - who says we don’t know how to party in Alaska?

Happy birthday, gorlie!

Posted: February 18th, 2008 under Family, Moose Nuggets.
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So, I saw the internist yesterday - first available appointment after all the heart hoo-ha. After I filled out (what seemed like) reams of paperwork to get me admitted into the inner sanctum - past all the many office workers - I sat in the examining room for quite awhile before he was able to come to see me.

I thumbed through several (very) old magazines - what IS it with doctors’ offices anyway? I mean, there were magazines from 2001!!! ANYway . . .

He came in, I put the National Geographic down and he told me to keep reading because he wanted to go through my chart to read the reports on all the tests. So I sat quietly while he read.

“Hmmm” he said. “Huh!” and then “Hmmmmm” again several more times. I finally started laughing and said “you’re reading the cath report aren’t you?” And he said that he was.

Finally he closed the file - opened it one more time to re-read a section, closed it and looked at me and smiled.

“Well! We know you HAD a heart attack, but we don’t know why!”

You see I really AM an enigma after all. The tests have all come back as good as they can - and that leaves the docs all scratching their heads and calling me “lucky.”

My friends, luck had absolutely NOTHING to do with any of this. I’m a child of the King and blessed beyond all blessings to be able to tell you so. It is only by His grace and by His mercy that I have come through both kidney cancer and a heart attack in such fine fettle. All I can do is praise Him and thank Him and try to serve Him better.

Hope you’re all having a good week. Our temps have come up a bit - it is clear up to 18 degrees ABOVE zero this morning! Whoot! That is a welcome change from the below zero stuff of the past two weeks. It’s something like a 40 degree shift in temps! Gotta love living in Alaska.

Posted: February 12th, 2008 under Alaska, Moose Nuggets.
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It’s time to play Separated at Birth again.

It’s always fun to me to see people who resemble each other – generally generations apart. You might remember my posts about Eric Bogosian and Elliott Gould

and then Ana Gasteyer and Katherine Hahn .

Now I give you Valerie Bertinelli of the 70’s show One Day at a Time

and Lindsey Price of the newest show Lipstick Jungle.

Lindsey has that whole oriental thing going (her mother is Korean), and Valerie’s face is rounder, but seen separately they bear a strong resemblance. Don’t you think?

and, now if you will excuse me . . . I think I will go and see how good the new show is.

Posted: February 7th, 2008 under Family, Moose Nuggets.
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Because she asked so nicely (well, she told me to, anyway) here you go - a meme for Batty.

The 123 Rules:
1) Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!)
2) Turn to page 123.
3) Count the first five sentences.
4) Post the next three sentences.
5) Tag five other bloggers.

I don’t trust newspapers, don’t like them, usually wouldn’t be caught dead reading them; but this was different.

This time I was outside the official circle of information, and I needed a starting point. I was going to do something about Ginger Watkins’ death, jurisdictions be da***d.

From J.A. Jance’s Injustice for All

Yes, I have deeper books, but this was the closest to me if you don’t count Cruden’s Complete Concordance - which doesn’t have complete sentences. It is right next to me, but doesn’t count for this meme.

As for tagging someone . . . nahhhhhhhhh - y’all play amongst yourselves nicely and if you choose to do it, let me know.

Off to work now - off to face the frigid winter air - it IS warmer today, however - clear up to minus 7 degrees!!!! It is virtually BALMY out there - compared to the minus 20s we had earlier this week - and DEFINITELY compared to the minus 70 degree temps they are having in the Interior region of the state.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Posted: February 7th, 2008 under Alaska, Moose Nuggets.
Comments: 3